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10-29-2009, 11:48 PM
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A contact lens to ENHANCE brown eyes???
I have "medium" coloured brown eyes. I would like to enhance them not change them with an opaque lens. I was wondering if anyone knew of a good, natural looking, amber or light brown coloured enhancement contact lens? No limbal ring or giant pupil hole. By amber I mean a reddish-brown/copper colour, but not too "orangy". Is there a lens on the market designed to attract more light to the eye itself? I was told Cibasoft Softcolours are excellent and they have a true amber coloured lens available. Any help or input would be much appreciated. Thanks...
 PS: Last night someone recommended GEO brand/Circle Lenses "Camel Colour" any opinions? Last edited by CharlieSS; 10-30-2009 at 10:29 AM.. 
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10-30-2009, 09:15 AM
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Ehnancing Your Brown Eyes
Congratulations on being the first person I've read about on Lens 101 that has brown eyes and doesn't want to change them.
 I'm afraid I don't have much for you in the way of personal experience with colored contact lenses, but I found a picture that I hope will give you a good idea of what the SoftColors Amber contacts will look like. I hope it helps.
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10-30-2009, 10:27 AM
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10-30-2009, 10:46 AM
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It's hard to find a picture of a real person wearing these contact lenses. All the pictures I've seen look retouched to make the color perfectly, unnaturally even and hide the true eye color. This looks like a job for a Lens 101 member who can take a picture of themselves or someone close to them who wears SoftColors and attach it.
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10-30-2009, 12:40 PM
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Lol, Exactly, to both points you have made. From what I can assertain about the Cibasoft Softcolours they are meant to be worn by people with light to medium coloured (I assume all colours) eyes. I read a review from a girl on a website I used to purchase lenses from in the past named: 1-save-on-lens. She claims to have dark blue eyes but she likes to wear the Cibasoft Amber. I thought that was a little "off-key" myself. It makes you wonder what colour that makes her eyes appear. To anyone reading this correspondence if you have a photo of yourself wearing Cibasoft Softcolours Amber, and you have brown eyes please be a sport and respond to this thread with a photograph.
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11-04-2009, 09:34 PM
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Freshlook Hazels color blend looks amazing on brown eyes. I got mine for cheap...but Freshlook dimension in SEA Green will make ur eyes a bit of army dark dark green. I would go for Hazel first to try
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11-05-2009, 05:14 PM
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11-06-2009, 12:25 AM
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11-11-2009, 05:16 PM
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I found this picture on Flickr and it's called "Hazel Eyes." Dictionary.com defines "hazel" as "light golden brown, as the color of a hazelnut" so yeah . . . hazel is a shade of brown.
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11-17-2009, 04:18 PM
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11-17-2009, 05:22 PM
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I agree with what you said, exactly. Her eyes are gorgeous! Why such a big deal about blue/green eyes? I have blue/green eyes, and I don't like them. I see many people who are beautiful with all different color eyes. I also see many people with blue/green eyes that look a bit severe against their skin tone (myself included). I have been posting my pics in the freshlook section to show others with blue/green eyes what the colorblends look like on a real person, because the advertisements are like enhanced/airbrushed, etc. So, if there is a person here with brown eyes who has tried other shades of brown for enhancement, that would really help our brown-eyed friends. If I had brown eyes naturally, I would gladly do it, but I don't unfortunately.
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01-14-2010, 12:36 AM
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Hazel in the traditional sence, as I have always know the colour hazel to be is green-brown mixed. I have several family members with hazel eyes none of which look "golden-brown" if thats your definition of hazel then my eyes are hazel. I guess I will have to update my driver's license and birth certificate now "Fresa."
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01-14-2010, 09:58 AM
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01-14-2010, 10:07 AM
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Someone posted a long-winded rant here that basically said that we shouldn't wear colored contacts and just accept our eyes as they are. There's a lot of truth to that. People would be better off accepting what they look like instead of wishing they looked different, but I don't see any harm in temporarily changing your eye color. If we were to truly accept ourselves as we are and not change anything, then we wouldn't ever shave, groom ourselves in any way, or even get dressed, really. So I don't think wearing colored contact lenses is that big of a deal.
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01-14-2010, 02:47 PM
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01-15-2010, 02:59 PM
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Sooooo, you only want to beautify and/or augment your natural brown eyes? Isn't this somewhat of a contradiction to your above statement(s)? Especially this one: "Be yourself and don't be fake"?
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01-15-2010, 06:47 PM
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01-16-2010, 02:43 PM
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Yes there is, they are decieving themselves. Sure, they know what they are doing but they don't understand two things; others know you are trying to decieve them and they (the opaque wearers) don't really understand the true reason they do this to begin with. If you dislike yourself sooo much that you have gone so far as to change your eyes there is some MAJOR self esteem issues residing within that person. I know some angry opaque wearer is reading this saying: "No one can tell I wear contacts, they are the best you can buy and I get so many compliments." Wrongo! People can tell simply because people can sense when something isn't quite koscher. People compliment you because they see how far you have gone for attention and feel obligated as a human-being to make you feel better about yourself. There is no such thing as a "realistic" or "natural" looking opaque contact lens because people cannot mimick the nature of God. All opaque contact lenses give people what I like to call the "Iguana Look" they look as though they have the eyes of lizards, this is obviously the biggest way others can tell. A classic example of this can be seen on this website. It is a posting by a young man with the screename "Skippy". Look at the pics he posted and if you can't come to terms with what I have said after viewing those pics then you are in self-denial yourself. Furthermore, I can't believe that not one person on this forum couldn't have been bluntly honest with him to tell him how rediculous he looks. Is everyone on this forum in denial?
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01-16-2010, 04:05 PM
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We obviously have very different opinions regarding this subject, which I believe neither will change. Soooooo, it's now a moot point.
I am curious however, as to why you chose "Skippy" as a prime example of how "rediculous a person looks while wearing those sinfull lenses"? Quote:
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01-16-2010, 04:51 PM
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I think it is a matter of personal Preference, but I wear the colorblends as opposed to the regular colors, because the colorblends look more natural and blend in. But I don't look down on people who wear opaques, and even if you can see their real color, it's no big deal. If it's what makes a person feel good about themselves, then there is no harm done. I don't see it as deceitful, unless a blue eyed guy married a girl who has brown eyes and wears convincing blue contacts all the time. Then he is surprised when their child is born with brown eyes. Well, shame on him for wanting "purity" of the race/color or whatever. I'm sure the child will be beautiful regardless. My husband doesn't notice eye color, so he doesn't care, so even if I am "deceiving" him, I'm not hurting anyone, because he loves me with any color eyes. I just need the color because I have a weird and uneven color on each of my eyes, and I need the lenses to see anyway, as I have a bad habit of breaking Rx eyeglasses. And I always misplace clear lenses, even the ones with the visitint.
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01-16-2010, 04:55 PM
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01-16-2010, 04:59 PM
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Why do you feel blue eyes represent racial purity?
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01-16-2010, 05:09 PM
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Referencing back to naziism, blonde/blue. Which is hypocritical, because I have heard that Hitler had brown eyes. But I am not sure which is correct. However, today's neonazis, especially where I live, prefer blonde/blue.
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01-16-2010, 05:33 PM
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01-16-2010, 05:34 PM
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_Adolf_Hitler's_eye_color Hitler did in fact have blue eyes, though he was not of the typical Aryan race characteristics. Although Adolf Hitler claimed the Germans were of of a superior "Aryan" race of white, tall, blonde hair, blue eyed individuals. He (Hitler) himself was of modest height, blue-eyed, and brown-haired. knotlob
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01-16-2010, 06:02 PM
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I actually think brown eyes are gorgeous, and perhaps that is why I wish to change mine to brown. I also have some ancestors who died in concentration camps, so I have a strong feeling about it. Maybe I subconsciously feel guilty for having blue/green eyes, or maybe I just feel that they are ugly on me, or maybe it's because my eyes don't have an even color in them. I don't kinow, but I feel that people's reasons for wanting different eye colors are personal, and it can be for fun as well, so I don't think there is any harm done in wearing colored contacts, especially if they look convincing. I think all color eyes are beautiful, and people of all races/creeds are beautiful as well.
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01-16-2010, 10:25 PM
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I want to try color contacts because they are fun to me. Like wearing makeup or jewlry. I love my eye color but sometimes i like to shake things up without doing anything permenent to myself.
Maybe the conotative definition of hazel changes depending upon the region you live in ? While the denotative definition states that it is a light brown i, my family, and my friends all refer to a green/brown as hazel. It's a color that seems to change color depending upon the lighting and nearby colors like clothing. I think putting any color over your eye even if its the same shade would constitute an attempt to alter the eye color. It makes me think of makeup. Even if worn subtle and natural looking so that it looks like its how you wakeup every morning, it's still makeup. But i'm ok with that.
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01-17-2010, 07:41 AM
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I don't wear coloured contact lenses so have no axe to grind here with my comments.
Personally I cannot see any distinction between 'enhancing the colour' of a person's eyes and changing the colour completely with opaque lenses for example. It's just a matter of degree. It's still a change, whichever way you look at it. Obviously CharlieSS has a different opinion and that's his prerogative. I don't see any problem with a person wearing coloured contact lenses if it makes them feel better. It's just another form of make-up in my view. It's not permanent like some forms of cosmetic surgery. Whether I can tell it's a coloured lens of a person's natural eye colour isn't really important to me either. It is the overall effect that is important - some colours work better on some people than on others, same as for any make-up or clothing colour/style. It's got little to do with deception (of themselves or other people). Catt posted a picture on this forum with her wearing amethyst/violet contact lenses and I thought they looked very good. Now I realise that violet eye colour is exceptionally rare - Liz Taylor being the famous example of someone with such a colour naturally. So if I didn't know any better, I would realise that the lenses Catt modelled were almost certainly not her natural colour. Does it matter? Not one little bit. Do they look good on her? In my opinion yes. Maybe CharlieSS thinks that a man with a scar on his face should not wear a beard to hide the scar, or that people should not wear make-up to cover up some skin texture or colour defect as that is 'deception'? Or does this rule apply only to the eyes and if so, why? I don't buy this 'windows to the soul' comment. The cornea is transparent, the iris is not. The lenses don't affect the corneas, only the iris. Wearing coloured contact lenses is just a bit of fun, no more, no less (whether they are to enhance a natural colour or to change a colour to a different one). For what it's worth to all those brown eyed people out there, I think brown eyes can also be very attractive and certainly do not warrant a mandatory change in colour. knotlob
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02-02-2010, 02:49 PM
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It's Not That Big a Deal
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As for your comments about eye color being "one of our most precious identifying features" and "the real you," I don't think putting in a pair of colored contact lenses will make me less caring of people's feelings, or cause me to lie more often or decide I like Brussels sprouts after all. Colored contact lenses can only change how you look, not who you are. If I were to becomes friends with you and hang out with you for six months, then take out my contacts and show you that my eyes are really brown, not blue, are you going to say "I don't even recognize you. You're like a completely different person" just because my eyes look different?
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02-02-2010, 03:12 PM
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So Much For Not Upsetting Anyone
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"If you dislike yourself sooo much that you have gone so far as to change your eyes there is some MAJOR self esteem issues residing within that person." "All opaque contact lenses give people what I like to call the 'Iguana Look' they look as though they have the eyes of lizards, this is obviously the biggest way others can tell." These are the kinds of things you say, and then you say you "didn't [want] to upset anyone"? Saying that "all opaque contacts" make people look like lizards? You're surprised that this upsets people? By the way, this is what a real iguana's eye looks like. Contact lenses don't usually make a person's eyes look like this:  I'm no psychologist, but of a person wants to wear color contacts, or maybe cut their hair a certain way, or put on a little eye shadow or lipstick, I don't think that qualifies as "MAJOR self esteem issues." Even though you think "Klingons4Peace's" shaving analogy is "completely insane" I have to agree with it. To follow your logic that we should all just "be ourselves" and not change anything about our appearances, that leaves out shaving, grooming, make up, even clothing. By your argument we should all walk around completely naked and ungroomed so we don't "deceive" anybody. If you think Color Contact Lenses are deceptive, fine. You don't have to wear them. To diagnose "MAJOR self esteem issues" for people who wear color contacts is unfair, judgmental and in most cases, just plain false. I hope you read over this and decide to take another look at how you treat people and talk about them.
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02-19-2010, 10:36 PM
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Another bad lens forum...
The only answer or explanation I owe anyone is simple, if you took offense to anything I said I never intended my words to do so. If my words did upset you its probably because you know that I am at least half right in your own heart. I never said wearing opaque contacts was evil, sinful, or horrible so please if your going to twist my words don't try to make me out to be some kind of Islamic Extreamist like many of you have done, I expected as much but its getting really old, really fast. Now for the "Iguana Comment." I believe like many others that opaque lenses do in fact give the human eye a very odd lizard-like look, in fact, I have read comments on over ten other forums where many other people (100+) describe the same phenomenon that I do. God forbid I give any opinion against opaques in this one-sided forum. I suppose if you like hiding you natural, beautiful eyes thats your business to do so. I joined this forum to find out more about one lens in particular and found out to my dismay that this lens forum like most are one-sided and for one group of lens wearer in particular, those who wear opaque lenses. Feel free to justify your actions any way you'd like but comparing wearing opaque lenses to make-up or shaving is absurd and remember folks sometimes the truth does sting.
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02-26-2010, 03:26 PM
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Seriously, -- all sarcasm aside Charlie -- if you are still a member of this site, I really am curious about the "Iguana Comment". The one in which you (plus another 100 or so individuals) believe that that opaque lenses do in fact give the human eye a very odd lizard-like look. Can you explain in more detail the physical similarities of lizard vs. human eye?
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02-26-2010, 04:10 PM
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02-26-2010, 11:28 PM
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02-26-2010, 11:34 PM
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090223133109AA7KiA7 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070612161829AAmYvyT http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090427104058AAUDaZC I rest my case!
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08-24-2010, 07:59 PM
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i was wondering if you ever found any enhancements for your brown eyes after all these ramblings i didnt see any solution for you ;-)
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08-25-2010, 11:04 AM
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