Can You Color Your Own Contacts?

Xwing · #1 (**permalink**) 09-10-2008, 11:18 AM

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this question, but I'm posting it for others who may be wondering.
Can you take clear contact lenses and make them into colored contacts?

lucky_witch · #2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 01:50 AM

I'm not sure. I never had a contact lenses. But I am eager to know because I am planning to have one. I'll be glad if you can tell me the answer.

Kimmyh51 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 06:35 AM

I cant imgine how you could do that the color is injected into the lens and they are tiny and very thin - to learn to or get equipment would probably be much harder and more costly than just buying some

i certainly wouldnt want to put something in my eye that i had put chemicals on myself

#4 (**permalink**) 03-08-2009, 03:13 AM

Are you totally serious? You actually want to color your own clear contact lens. Yeah, try using a permanent marker -NOT!!!!. unless of course you want to risk the chance of going blind., DUH!

Xwing · #5 (**permalink**) 04-21-2009, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by catt

Are you totally serious? You actually want to color your own clear contact lens. Yeah, try using a permanent marker -NOT!!!!. unless of course you want to risk the chance of going blind., DUH!

No need to get snotty, Catt.

If you would have taken five seconds to actually read the question, you would have known that I was not "totally serious." Just curious.

The rest of you, thank you for your responses which were far more courteous. I learned something here today. If you want colored contacts, your best bet would be to buy them. I hear lens.com is a good website. Has anyone ordered from there?

#6 (**permalink**) 12-16-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Xwing

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this question, but I'm posting it for others who may be wondering.
Can you take clear contact lenses and make them into colored contacts?

I actually came across this a few minutes ago. You have gotta read it. Strange as it may seem.

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Although it's not realistic for most people here to obtain and do; however, has anyone ever tried hand painting their own sclera lenses? These pretty much cover up my darker brown/hazel eye color.

Well, as strange as it seems, sclera lenses did start out as hard glass, then hard plastic shells. They're still made and used today, though more for treating eye conditions (keeping ointment in place), and are rigid gas permeable, which is a plastic that'll let air flow through it to your eye. The old solid plastic ones (like mine) can't be worn long since it cuts off oxygen to the eye.

It's fairly safe as long as I care for them, they're mostly for show in photos since I can't wear them long. Avoiding making scratches and burrs on the insides and keeping them in solution is all that's needed. I doubt many people could handle shoving a huge chunk of plastic into their eye. However, they don't touch your cornea, they sit on your sclera, leaving a pocket between your cornea and the lens.

The acrylic paint is mixed with pros-aid adhesive, so it won't flake/crumble off. It's like a rubbery paint that won't bleed when wet. They're painted on the outside of the lens, so it's not up against your eye. Of course I have to leave a pupil hole

When they're dry, I let them sit in lens cleaning solution for a few hours, in order to clean and disinfect them prior to use.

loveme · #7 (**permalink**) 12-16-2009, 11:54 PM

u sure its safe for u to use this lens on ur eye? What if the dye irritates ur eye and its toxic?

PeriBrown · #8 (**permalink**) 12-18-2009, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by catt

I actually came across this a few minutes ago. You have gotta read it. Strange as it may seem.

Thanks for the article and the picture, catt. I'm afraid those contacts don't look very realistic to me. The regular contacts as seen here on Lens 101 look far more so. They don't even look round.
Do these contact lenses have pupil holes? The text describes an opening, but I can't seem to see the paper towel these contacts are resting on through the pupil openings.

Are you sure you didn't make these in ceramics class, catt?

loveme · #9 (**permalink**) 12-18-2009, 01:37 PM

Hmmm, the opening may way too small so at night u will have a problem seeing well!

Columbia · #10 (**permalink**) 12-18-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by catt

I actually came across this a few minutes ago. You have gotta read it. Strange as it may seem.

What kind of coin is that? Is it a Canadian quarter? While we're at it, why do those contact lenses have a hole on the side?

loveme · #11 (**permalink**) 12-18-2009, 04:27 PM

so u can wear it around ur neck

Building63 · #12 (**permalink**) 12-22-2009, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by loveme

so u can wear it around ur neck

Ah, clever. Maybe this lady would be interested in a contact lens necklace.

PeriBrown · #13 (**permalink**) 02-02-2010, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Building63

Ah, clever. Maybe this lady would be interested in a contact lens necklace.

Good one Building 63. That's a weird picture, though.

The thing that go me about those colored contacts shown in this thread is that the pupils look like they're painted black instead of clear. Are we sure those aren't prosthetic eyes for someone who may have lost their eyes in an accident or something?