Focus on Green Color Contacts—Shake Your Shamrocks and Go Green

Just for fun, we thought this would be a great month to focus ongreen colored contacts.

For dark eyes, opaque lenses like Acuvue 2 Colors and Freshlook Colorblends will conceal your natural eye color.

For light eyes, Acuvue 2 Enhancers and Freshlook Dimensions will bring out the green tones in your natural color.

If you just want to experiment with green, choose disposable lenses that last two to four weeks. Acuvue and Freshlook are the two most popular brands of disposable contacts. If you want to commit to green, then buy long wearing vial colored contacts like Illusions and wear them daily up to a year.

We looked at the green family and decided that there are a couple of ways to go. Cool green has hints of aqua, jade green is a warmer shade with yellow undertones, and moss green has the earthy undertones that blend best with browns.

Note: as with all color contacts, finding the perfect green starts with your own eye color. What may look great on one person, may look completely different on you!

Brilliant Green

One of the most popular and inexpensive lines of colored lenses are Clearly Colors from Coastal Contacts. All the colors in this line are strong and vibrant, including Green Envy.

Note: This lens DOES NOT feature any blue/violet color as part of the lens. The illustration is misleading.

Green Envy is a very dramatic opaque lens perhaps best suited for a night out rather than everyday wear

Cool Green

If you have light eyes, cool green is easier to achieve. Enhancer lenses like Freshlook Dimensions and Acuvue Enhancers intensify your natural eye color.

Jade green

These lenses, like Acuvue 2 Colors, Freshlook Colors  andFocus Softcolors are for medium color change and work for both dark and light eyes. Light hazel eyes, or eyes with some green undertones will see more color change than dark brown.

Moss Green

These lenses will provide the most subtle color change. If you have brown eyes, these tints will nicely blend with your natural color.

Some people with dark eyes have found the perfect subtle green by wearing enhancer lenses (normally for light eyes), like Freshlook Dimensions.

Please note: contact lenses, even if worn for cosmetic reasons, are medical devices that should be worn under the prescription, direction, and supervision of an eye care professional.

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