Contact lenses

Telo123

Can people see contact lenses on your eyes?? Someone please answer.

RiseToMe

Telo123 wrote: »

Can people see contact lenses on your eyes?? Someone please answer.

In short, yes.

Telo123

Thanks how visible are they?

Mint Sauce

Telo123 wrote: »

Thanks how visible are they?

Asuuming they are wearing plain, ie, not coloured ones, you would have to be very close, and focusing on their eyes. Then you would see an outline of the lens, or their rim, around their iris. So its not obvious that someone is wearing them.

allandanyways

I wear clear ones and when my eyes are tired/dry, you can see them quite clearly around the iris, but most of the time they're barely visible unless you're looking for them.

endacl

Telo123 wrote: »

Thanks how visible are they?

Not very. You'd want to be specifically looking for them, and pretty close up.

RiseToMe

To follow up on my short answer, face to face they are visible however depending on the brand and diameter of the lens some are more visible further away.

Case in point was tonight where several friends were out and one brought a colleague whom we had never met, a friend of mine asked her If she was wearing lenses as he noticed a blue rim on her iris from across a table.

He's a HR manager and nothing to do with optics and he's not his eyes tested in years/doesn't wear contacts or glasses etc. So yes "Joe soap" can see them but it's circumstantial

Telo123

Thanks really want them but they are pricey. I just dislike glasses. Could any one who wears them yell me how comfortable they are?

endacl

Telo123 wrote: »

Thanks really want them but they are pricey. I just dislike glasses. Could any one who wears them yell me how comfortable they are?

Too many variables. Comfy ones are comfy. Really comfy ones are really comfy. A dodgy lens will drive you nuts. Dailys will get uncomfy quicker than monthlies. New monthlies will stay comfy for ages. Three week old monthlies, less so.

And then we have to consider your eyes and how sensitive they are...

Just go talk to your optician. Take a trial pair and see how you get on.

Be grand.

SirJoker

During a normal conversation with someone, you won't see it. You would really have to look for it. And it also depends on the lens itself. If it's plain and so on.

kenyard

I second ent's comments. I used to wear a pair of monthlies for 16+hr days for 2-3 months no issues. Dailies dried out a bit. I could sleep in them without much issue but dailies would dry out a bit and be uncomfortable in morning. It's all down to individual. Dry eyes etc. I since got laser eye a month ago. Much of a muchness as I had contacts on pretty much always. There's risks of infection etc though with contacts and as you may gather I was a bit over the top.
Do a trial. It takes a while to get used to. I remember before school having to get up 30 mins early for the first month or so because sometimes it took 5 minutes sometimes 25 to get them on.
When you know what you are doing it takes a minute tops to put them in and take out.
Your eyes can be a bit sore if you take them out after a heavy night too. (Again personal experience and results vary by individual)

X6.430macman

kenyard wrote:

I second ent's comments. I used to wear a pair of monthlies for 16+hr days for 2-3 months no issues. Dailies dried out a bit. I could sleep in them without much issue but dailies would dry out a bit and be uncomfortable in morning. It's all down to individual. Dry eyes etc. I since got laser eye a month ago. Much of a muchness as I had contacts on pretty much always. There's risks of infection etc though with contacts and as you may gather I was a bit over the top. Do a trial. It takes a while to get used to. I remember before school having to get up 30 mins early for the first month or so because sometimes it took 5 minutes sometimes 25 to get them on. When you know what you are doing it takes a minute tops to put them in and take out. Your eyes can be a bit sore if you take them out after a heavy night too. (Again personal experience and results vary by individual)

kenyard wrote:

I second ent's comments. I used to wear a pair of monthlies for 16+hr days for 2-3 months no issues. Dailies dried out a bit. I could sleep in them without much issue but dailies would dry out a bit and be uncomfortable in morning. It's all down to individual. Dry eyes etc. I since got laser eye a month ago. Much of a muchness as I had contacts on pretty much always. There's risks of infection etc though with contacts and as you may gather I was a bit over the top. Do a trial. It takes a while to get used to. I remember before school having to get up 30 mins early for the first month or so because sometimes it took 5 minutes sometimes 25 to get them on. When you know what you are doing it takes a minute tops to put them in and take out. Your eyes can be a bit sore if you take them out after a heavy night too. (Again personal experience and results vary by individual)

That's a fair long time to keep contacts in for, and did ever wear glasses for a day or two to give your eyes a rest??

kenyard

X6.430macman wrote: »

That's a fair long time to keep contacts in for, and did ever wear glasses for a day or two to give your eyes a rest??

Sometimes on weekends if I wasn't at much. More often than not I would be going somewhere. But I would only put them on late then so might be for a few hours only.
I lost my glasses quite a few times for weeks at a time and didn't have issues. But I was using decent monthlies. My eyes did have Red lines too which I think they have less of now