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Old 12-12-2009, 09:35 PM
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Default Ciba Vision Elegance

Hi all,

Im hoping someone here can help me....

Im looking for Elegance contact lenses made by Ciba Vision.
I know they have been "remade" as Natural Touch by Coopervision, but Im not looking for those.

Im specifically looking for Ciba Vision Elegance contacts....
They've been discontinued, but Im hoping someone knows where to find them.


Theres 1 site available on the net which I came across... they're located in Portugal but only have 1 light blue available, thats it.

Any ideas?
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Old 12-14-2009, 11:38 AM
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Default Elegance Opaques (Natural Touch Opaque)

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Hi all,

Im hoping someone here can help me....

Im looking for Elegance contact lenses made by Ciba Vision.
I know they have been "remade" as Natural Touch by Coopervision, but Im not looking for those.

Im specifically looking for Ciba Vision Elegance contacts....
They've been discontinued, but Im hoping someone knows where to find them.


There's 1 site available on the net which I came across... they're located in Portugal but only have 1 light blue available, that's it.

Any ideas?
Welcome Hyru,

I did a little checking around, since I'm not familiar with these contacts personally, and the only thing I found that matches your description are Elegance Opaques by Cooper Vision. From what I can see, these were not "remade as Natural Touch." CooperVision makes Vial Contact Lenses that they call "Elegance Opaques (Natural Touch Opaque)." It's just two names for the same thing, like "pop" and "soda." So what you're asking in essence is "Where can I find some Soda? Everyone keeps trying to give me Pop, but I want Soda."

Here's how Lens.com describes them: "Elegance Opaques (Natural Touch Opaques) are disposable contact lenses manufactured by CooperVision. Elegance Opaques (Natural Touch Opaques) are easy-to-handle, durable lenses that resist tearing and provide excellent visual acuity. These lenses are also known as Natural Touch Opaques and are shipped under this name. At 62% polymer (polymacon) 38% Water, Elegance Opaques (Natural Touch Opaques) are available in Baby Blue, Aqua Seas, Sophisticated Blue, Willow Green, Sultry Gray and Hazel."

Here's the website: http://www.lens.com/contact-lenses/lens280.asp

I hope that helps.
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Old 12-14-2009, 06:26 PM
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Hey bond,

Thanks for the response.
However, I believe the Coopervision and the Ciba Vision's have a pretty big difference.... Ciba Vision elegance contact lenses (the ones discontinued) were hand printed... these other ones are a lower quality machine printed contacts.

Using the analogy, Im asking for Pepsi, they're providing RC Cola
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Old 12-15-2009, 10:23 AM
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Default Contact Lenses and Cola Wars

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Hey bond,

Thanks for the response.
However, I believe the Coopervision and the Ciba Vision's have a pretty big difference.... Ciba Vision elegance contact lenses (the ones discontinued) were hand printed... these other ones are a lower quality machine printed contacts.

Using the analogy, I'm asking for Pepsi, they're providing RC Cola
Okay, you piqued my curiosity, so I looked it up.

RC ingredients: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid, caffeine, natural flavors, gum acacia, citric acid.

Pepsi ingredients: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, sugar, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid, natural flavors.

Very similar, but not identical.

I did a Google search to see how often the contact lenses in question are listed as "Elegance Opaques (Natural Touch Opaque)." They are listed that way most of the time, but I did find one site that said the Elegance Opaque has been discontinued and is no longer available.

So maybe--to go back to the cola analogy--if somehow RC cola goes away, and I were to try to order RC on line, they might call it "RC (Pepsi)" as kind of a way of saying "We have RC . . . well, Pepsi, technically. There's no such thing as RC any more, but Pepsi is pretty close."

What do you think, people of Lens 101?
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Old 12-15-2009, 11:39 AM
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To shed some light on the confusion.....

Heres a good post:
http://www.lens101.com/color-contact-lenses/1688-warning-about-natural-touch-lenses-being-sold-elegance.html

Also, here is the petition reqesting cibavision elegances come back.....
http://www.petitiononline.com/ciba2008/petition.html


With all due honesty, I would have gave up on this long ago if they werent such great contacts. I have yet to see anything even come remotely close to them. I can easily tell when someone has contacts in.... with the CibaVision Elegance lenses, they were very well hidden and provided a beautiful color.
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Old 12-15-2009, 12:54 PM
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Default Making a Change at CIBA Vision

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To shed some light on the confusion.....

Heres a good post:
http://www.lens101.com/color-contact-lenses/1688-warning-about-natural-touch-lenses-being-sold-elegance.html

Also, here is the petition requesting cibavision elegance come back.....
http://www.petitiononline.com/ciba2008/petition.html


With all due honesty, I would have gave up on this long ago if they werent such great contacts. I have yet to see anything even come remotely close to them. I can easily tell when someone has contacts in.... with the CibaVision Elegance lenses, they were very well hidden and provided a beautiful color.
I was curious about the petition so I went to the link. I thought the testimonies were interesting. I think that will be more effective than an on line "petition" that has no actual signatures.

Glancing over the names listed at this site, it didn't take me long to find "luchie pocock" listed twice, then names like "Jorge C" and "Jade", "Nancy", and "Ollie", as well as "Irina X." That last one would raise a red flag right away, as would "BRS."

If you want to truly make a difference, there's a thread in here that has the URL of a contact form you can fill out on CIBA Vision's own web site. Here's the URL again: http://www.us.cibavision.com/contact_us.shtml

Try that, and good luck.
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Old 01-22-2010, 10:52 AM
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Default How About That Form?

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I was curious about the petition so I went to the link. I thought the testimonies were interesting. I think that will be more effective than an on line "petition" that has no actual signatures.

Glancing over the names listed at this site, it didn't take me long to find "luchie pocock" listed twice, then names like "Jorge C" and "Jade", "Nancy", and "Ollie", as well as "Irina X." That last one would raise a red flag right away, as would "BRS."

If you want to truly make a difference, there's a thread in here that has the URL of a contact form you can fill out on CIBA Vision's own web site. Here's the URL again: http://www.us.cibavision.com/contact_us.shtml

Try that, and good luck.
Nice work, Lucyfur. Has anyone been to this site and contacted CibaVision via the form?
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Old 01-25-2010, 11:00 AM
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Default Natural Touch Lenses Being Sold as Elegance

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To shed some light on the confusion.....

Heres a good post:
http://www.lens101.com/color-contact-lenses/1688-warning-about-natural-touch-lenses-being-sold-elegance.html

Also, here is the petition reqesting cibavision elegances come back.....
http://www.petitiononline.com/ciba2008/petition.html


With all due honesty, I would have gave up on this long ago if they weren't such great contacts. I have yet to see anything even come remotely close to them. I can easily tell when someone has contacts in.... with the CibaVision Elegance lenses, they were very well hidden and provided a beautiful color.
I looked over that posting in Lens 101. It seems as though the Natural Touch contacts had more descriptive names for their colors such as Baby Blue and Willow Green while Elegance just had colors like Dark Blue and Light Green.

Meanwhile, have you found contacts that you like?
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Old 01-29-2010, 05:19 PM
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Nice work, Lucyfur. Has anyone been to this site and contacted CibaVision via the form?
I filled out the form, but as yet I have not received a reply.
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Old 10-20-2010, 01:21 AM
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hi,
A friend of mine has 14 pairs of elegance Color Contact Lenses for sale (gray, green, blue, violet and hazel). If you're really looking for this specific brand, I may be able to help.
let me know,
honey
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Old 10-20-2010, 09:04 AM
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Hi all,

Im hoping someone here can help me....

Im looking for Elegance contact lenses made by Ciba Vision.
I know they have been "remade" as Natural Touch by Coopervision, but Im not looking for those.

Im specifically looking for Ciba Vision Elegance contacts....
They've been discontinued, but Im hoping someone knows where to find them.


Theres 1 site available on the net which I came across... they're located in Portugal but only have 1 light blue available, thats it.

Any ideas?
Lens.com has Elegance Opaque contact lenses, but they're listed as being made by CooperVision: http://www.lens.com/contact-lenses/lens280.asp

Is that what you're looking for, Hyru?
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Old 11-08-2010, 03:29 PM
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Please let me know, I'm interested in Grey Elegance, will be able to pay with paypal
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hi,
A friend of mine has 14 pairs of elegance color contact lenses for sale (gray, green, blue, violet and hazel). If you're really looking for this specific brand, I may be able to help.
let me know,
honey
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Old 11-08-2010, 04:16 PM
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Default That's a Lot of Lenses

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hi,
A friend of mine has 14 pairs of elegance color contact lenses for sale (gray, green, blue, violet and hazel). If you're really looking for this specific brand, I may be able to help.
let me know,
honey
So how did your friend wind up with 14 pairs of contact lenses in five different colors? How did he or she get prescriptions for all those?
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Well, good question, but the reality is that only in USA a prescription is needed to buy 0.00 power contacts. I come from Dominican Republic and as long as you can afford it you can buy all the contacts you want to own. I was very annoyed by the fact that I needed to pay over $100 to a doctor to write a prescription to be able to buy 0.00 power color contacts.

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So how did your friend wind up with 14 pairs of contact lenses in five different colors? How did he or she get prescriptions for all those?
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Old 11-08-2010, 05:57 PM
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Well, good question, but the reality is that only in USA a prescription is needed to buy 0.00 power contacts. I come from Dominican Republic and as long as you can afford it you can buy all the contacts you want to own. I was very annoyed by the fact that I needed to pay over $100 to a doctor to write a prescription to be able to buy 0.00 power color contacts.
Well that explains that. Still, you can't sell contact on a US-based website like this. That's as illegal as trying to buy contact lenses (even 0.00) without a prescription.
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I understand your point

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Well that explains that. Still, you can't sell contact on a US-based website like this. That's as illegal as trying to buy contact lenses (even 0.00) without a prescription.
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Old 11-09-2010, 10:34 AM
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I understand your point
Autonation is right. Besides, me personally, I might buy some cheap baseball cards from someone on a forum like this, or maybe a book or a magazine, but I wouldn't buy anything valuable, like a car or a rare baseball card, and I wouldn't buy anything I would put in my body, like food or contact lenses. Too risky. You never know what kind of crazies lurk on the Internet, even on a cool site like this one. Be careful when you talk to strangers.
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Old 12-13-2010, 12:30 PM
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You never know what kind of crazies lurk on the Internet, even on a cool site like this one. Be careful when you talk to strangers.
Even if someone isn't a "crazy" they might still be careless. You might order contact lenses and get them sent to you just sitting in a box all dried and shriveled.

Be safe. Buy your contacts from Lens.com.
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Old 12-13-2010, 12:51 PM
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Even if someone isn't a "crazy" they might still be careless. You might order contact lenses and get them sent to you just sitting in a box all dried and shriveled.

Be safe. Buy your contacts from Lens.com.
I agree, Walkaway. I wouldn't feel safe ordering contact lenses from an individual I didn't know.
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Old 12-15-2010, 01:05 PM
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Well that explains that. Still, you can't sell contact on a US-based website like this. That's as illegal as trying to buy contact lenses (even 0.00) without a prescription.
Is it illegal to buy contact lenses without a prescription? I read a post earlier that said it's perfectly legal to buy contacts without an Rx. Does anyone know how true that is? How about in the United States, specifically, because I know that laws can be different in different countries.
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Old 12-17-2010, 03:49 PM
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Smile Natural touch & ciba vision "elegance"

Realizing this post is dated December 9, 2009 (now December 17, 2010) but today discover that both NATURAL TOUCH & CIBA VISION "ELEGANCE" have been DISCONTINUED.

Does ANYONE have any ideas where these can be purchased? I placed an order today but know it's going to come back "discontinued."

I contacted CooperVision's Customer Service re: availability of Natural Touch--she suggested some distributors have purchased remaining stock but unable to locate.

I'm hoping an International Distributor may have remaining stock in 8.7/14.0/0.00/"Sultry Grey." PLEASE HELP!!!


Thanks.

ggpgreer
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I can tell you what distributor have it, please send me a private email, I don't want to post it here since lens.com is the sponsor of this page.

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Realizing this post is dated December 9, 2009 (now December 17, 2010) but today discover that both NATURAL TOUCH & CIBA VISION "ELEGANCE" have been DISCONTINUED.

Does ANYONE have any ideas where these can be purchased? I placed an order today but know it's going to come back "discontinued."

I contacted CooperVision's Customer Service re: availability of Natural Touch--she suggested some distributors have purchased remaining stock but unable to locate.

I'm hoping an International Distributor may have remaining stock in 8.7/14.0/0.00/"Sultry Grey." PLEASE HELP!!!


Thanks.

ggpgreer
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I can tell you what distributor have it, please send me a private email, I don't want to post it here since lens.com is the sponsor of this page.
Thank you, loverboysc, for helping gpgreer and for respecting Lens 101.

I double-checked Lens 101, and they don't seem to have either one of those contact lenses requested by gpgreer.
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I can tell you what distributor have it, please send me a private email, I don't want to post it here since lens.com is the sponsor of this page.
Yes, like Earthshock said. Thank you for your restraint.
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Realizing this post is dated December 9, 2009 (now December 17, 2010) but today discover that both NATURAL TOUCH & CIBA VISION "ELEGANCE" have been DISCONTINUED.

Does ANYONE have any ideas where these can be purchased? I placed an order today but know it's going to come back "discontinued."

I contacted CooperVision's Customer Service re: availability of Natural Touch--she suggested some distributors have purchased remaining stock but unable to locate.

I'm hoping an International Distributor may have remaining stock in 8.7/14.0/0.00/"Sultry Grey." PLEASE HELP!!!


Thanks.

ggpgreer
Hmmm. I checked Lens.com, and they seem to still be selling Natural Touch Opaque/Elegance Opaque contacts. If they've been discontinued since the post above was written, I'd expect the website to reflect that by now. Try Lens.com and report back here on how it went, okay?

http://www.lens.com/contact-lenses/lens290.asp
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Hmmm. I checked Lens.com, and they seem to still be selling Natural Touch Opaque/Elegance Opaque contacts. If they've been discontinued since the post above was written, I'd expect the website to reflect that by now. Try Lens.com and report back here on how it went, okay?

http://www.lens.com/contact-lenses/lens290.asp
Exactly, Autonation. I think that if Lens.com was gong to stop selling Natural Touch Opaque lenses, they would have put a note saying "Effective on such-and-such a date, we will no longer be offering Natural Touch contact lenses."
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Old 07-26-2011, 10:33 PM
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Cool NATURAL TOUCH...still searching...

I checked Lens.com & their site does not show Natural Touch or Elegance...does anyone know an equivalent to these special lenses?Thanks so very much.
gail greer


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Exactly, Autonation. I think that if Lens.com was gong to stop selling Natural Touch Opaque lenses, they would have put a note saying "Effective on such-and-such a date, we will no longer be offering Natural Touch contact lenses."
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Old 07-27-2011, 10:54 AM
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I checked Lens.com & their site does not show Natural Touch or Elegance...does anyone know an equivalent to these special lenses?Thanks so very much.
gail greer
I tried to find something on line that would tell me what lens would be equivalent to either one of these lenses, but I didn't find anything.
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