Tuesday, June 20, 2006

5 Things to Know About Color Contacts

Are you the type of person that likes to play around with your looks? On the other hand, maybe you have always wanted green eyes instead of blue. If either of these descriptions sounds like you, you might be interested in colored contact lenses. Maybe you have even thought about using them before but didn't know if they were safe, or how expensive they might be. If so, keep reading the following tips will help you decide.

Color contact lenses come in a variety of colors and shades. They are available in blue, green, brown, violet, hazel and grey with new colors emerging all the time. These are great for someone who is tired of how they look and want a temporary change. Color contact lenses are available in three basic tints, the visibility tint, enhancement tint and the color tints. Each of these types of color contacts serves a specific purpose for contact lens wearers.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Contact Lenses - What is so Great about RGP?

RGP Contact Lenses - When you think about contact Lenses, what do you think of first? Which aspects of contact Lenses are important, which are essential, and which ones can you take or leave? You be the judge.

So, I have your interest and you want to know more about RGP contact lenses. Well good, you are now on the right track to learn more about the cutting edge technology of this corrective eye wear.

Gas permeable (GP) which are also known as (RGP) rigid gas permeable and oxygen permeable lenses are literally light years ahead of the old hard contact lenses.

When you get right down to the bottom line truth about RGP contact lenses, you are getting down to some really serious medicine for people with vision difficulties.

Let's first talk about the old style hard contact lenses. Remember those! These contacts originally came out in 1945, and were made with a material known as polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA), boy that was a mouthful.