Bianca's Beauty Blog's Eye & Eye Makeup Correspondent, Gemma Summons, tries out Eyesbright's Contact Lenses with positive results:
I was sent Eyesbright's fashion contact lenses in September, with them being intended for daily use. They supposedly last 3 months under this pattern of use, but do come with a container with fluid, so you could feasibly use them
for AGES if you weren't likely to use them every day. The lenses
themselves are really comfortable and easy to put in. However, there is an obvious
problem: if you're someone who really relies on normal contact lenses
to actually SEE anything, you can't use these. Either that or you'd
have to wear glasses, which, if you're using them for a special
occasion/event, might defeat the whole point of them. Eyesbright should therefore consider bringing out a range with prescriptions - but as it is, you've
either got to have perfect vision, or be happy to wear them with
glasses.
I selected 'natural green' lenses, but the website does specifically have lenses
for people with dark eyes (i.e. me). However, I wasn't a massive fan
of the colours offered for dark eyes - they seemed really lurid or quite
blatantly artificial (cat eyes, 'twilight vampire' eyes, etc). This
would be fine if I was going for the shock factor and so would be perfect for Halloween or a fancy dress party, but not for more frequent use. So I did go
for the natural green because I preferred the colour, but they don't
actually show up all that much on my eyes, which is
my fault for not following the website guidelines. However, looking at the lens itself, I
think you'd get quite a nice effect if you had light eyes (blue, grey), although the colour around the edge is quite 'pixellated' - you
wouldn't notice from conversation distance, but it's
noticeable up close.
The strange thing is that the lens
is larger than my normal iris - so you can see the ring of green around
the edge, but it doesn't look bad. I suppose they make my eyes look a
bit more hazel, which isn't a bad thing, so I don't have any
problems with the colour (other than wishing it showed up more). My
irises look like they've got a bit more 'dimension' to them because the lens is quite multitonal. But because the lenses
ARE larger than my normal irises, my eyes do look a bit... weird. Not
sure if anyone else would notice anything, but my irises are now bigger.
Maybe I just have naturally small irises? Who knows. Either way, I'm
quite undecided on the effect- I don't know
if it makes me look a bit spaced out, or whether it
actually makes my eyes look nicer.
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| Gemma's right eye has the lens in |
If you wanted to play around
with eye colours, or if you had to do fancy dress, I do think it's a
great product. The lens is comfortable and easy to put in and it's good that they last such a long time. I don't think I chose the best lenses for me - I think you'd have much more success with all of the lenses
if you have light eyes to start with, and the change would be much more
dramatic. Even though the effect is not drastic enough for me to use them every day, I'd happily consider them if I had a themed party.
Eyesbright contact lenses can be purchased from https://www.eyesbright.com/
Eyesbright contact lenses can be purchased from https://www.eyesbright.com/
