Contact Lenses: Colored Contacts

Contact lenses aren't just for seeing better. They're for looking better too. In fact, some people who don't even need vision correction wear tinted contact lenses as a way to change their look.

Today's tinted lenses allow you to enhance your natural eye color -- making the blue bluer or the green greener -- or change it altogether.

Three categories of tinted contact lenses are available:
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• Cosmetic enhancement tints are designed to enhance your natural eye color. These translucent lenses are best for light-colored eyes (blues and greens, hazels and grays). When wearing these tints, the color of your eye becomes a blend of the lens tint and your natural eye color.
• Opaque, or "cosmetic," tints change the color of dark eyes. The pattern on the lens, which is colored, overlies the colored part of your eye. The result is a natural look.
• Visibility tints are very pale, but are colored enough to make the contact lens visible during handling without any effect on eye color.