Can looks kill? Well, we don’t know that, but a pair of piercing eyes can! The eyes, once called the ‘windows to the human soul’, have since become the tool to present a new self. Your eyes are the most noticeable facial feature and can enhance your personality when projected in the right way. Depending on perception and cultural environment, eye color can also reflect a person’s traits.

For example, intense dark eyes are supposed to be associated with psychics, fortune tellers, and even criminals. Blue eyes are synonymous with royalty and have a certain sex appeal. Brown eyes are apparently “dreamy” and romantic, while green eyes are believed to suggest cat-like qualities. The control of eye color over the human psyche is real; no wonder people go to great lengths to display, mold and modify them.

Enter the era of contact lenses: visual aids that do double duty, vision correction and beauty aid. Normal lenses are often used for therapeutic purposes as a substitute for glasses. These clear eye lenses are manufactured with ophthalmic value and have the required number of magnifications as recommended by the ophthalmologist. The lenses are transparent and retain your true eye color. For those who are looking for colored eyes, there are indeed a plethora of options. Tinted lenses are often preferred by those looking to shape their natural appearance with a stunning pair of eyes. There is a range of colored lenses to add to your aesthetic appeal. The fun with colored glasses means that almost anyone can wear them, as long as you keep their overall personality in mind. Present the right image by opting for the appropriate eye color for the occasion. Try wearing a subtle shade for an afternoon engagement and a bold, statement pair for a night out.

The common variety of colored eye lenses is the opaque and tinted variety. Opaque lenses do not allow the original eye color to show through and are used by those who want to hide their original eye color. Tinted colored lenses allow the original color of the eyes to be seen and are used by people who want to enhance the original color of their eyes. Colored lenses also have an added advantage over regular lenses in that they have built-in UV protection. This helps protect your precious pair from strong sunlight. If you wear prescription lenses but want to charm your hearing with a distinctively colored pair of lenses, try colored contact lenses that have corrective properties. These dual lenses have the desired magnification factor built in. However, make sure you don’t compromise quality over cost; Matching color and magnification requires a high degree of industrial precision and this makes high quality colored lenses quite expensive.

The cheaper ones can even cause blurred vision due to color introduced by poor manufacturing processes. And the engineering difficulties involved mean that very high magnifications cannot be introduced into colored lenses. While this may seem like bad news to those with much weaker eyes, you know you’re getting the best out of your normal clear lens where corrective power is retained well. Finally, whether you’re looking for prescription contact lenses or a pair to enhance your appearance, the market offers a dazzling variety – just choose the pair for you and be your own fashion icon!