how many of you wear them? I have got one pair of soloticas and they are the most natural looking lenses in the world 
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what color are yours? theyāre ok to wear if you are a teenager or young adult, but most people tend to find colored lenses tacky (which is a shame, because i always wanted colored lenses)
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Show us please!
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It depends. There are some adult women who wear the contacts once in a whileā¦and thatās no badā¦thatās just like āexperimentingā with your looks and different styles, etc. But then there are some womenā¦and I only know of desi onesā¦who are past their twentiesā¦have kidsā¦and wear contact lenses on like a daily basis. For the past several yearsā¦every desi function you attendā¦from something as small as a dinner partyā¦to an haqeeqaā¦to a weddingā¦you will see them with their blue or green or gray lens. Heck, you can visit them in their homesā¦or run into them at the grocery storeā¦and theyāll still have the colored lens on. Does anyone find that disturbingā¦and especially when you have daughtersā¦what message are you sending them? Mind you ā¦they look lovely in themā¦but where is the cut-off age and is there even one? One of my friendsā¦known her since high schoolā¦every day I saw her with hazel lensā¦coming to school, going shopping, at every special functionā¦ same thing. She now has two kidsā¦still wearing em. They look good on herā¦but sheās got a beautiful eye shapeā¦exotic looking eyesā¦that sheād look just as pretty (if not more) if sheād go without them. I think for some women who do this on a daily or very frequent basisā¦I wonder if self-esteem is an issue. In the case of my friendā¦I remember her being distraught one day because a male cousin of hers had told her āWithout your colored lens, you just look like an ordinary girl.ā
I wouldnāt mind wearing them myself once in a whileā¦but all the timeā¦thereās something not right with it. I remember when I was 15ā¦and contacs were very much the rage in middle eastā¦I had tried on my friendās hazel lens (gross, I know). And some of my classmates told me I looked prettyā¦one of them said āAisha looks literally pretty.ā I was flatteredā¦but upon later reflection I thought it sounded it like a backhanded complimentā¦like my natural eye color rendered me average looking at bestā¦which is not a pleasant thought. I remember a sales rep complimenting my friend at the mall and telling her how beautiful her eyes were (they were hazel contacts) and I bet it feels good to hear that once in a while. But after a certain pointā¦doesnāt it feel weird that youāre getting recognition/praise for something thatās not even natural? If you play up your natural eye colorā¦and receive a complimentā¦I would think thatās more flattering.
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Marwah, youtube it. Youāll find videos of women who show you what the colored lens will look like if you have a dark eye colorā¦as most desis do.
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I guess Iām partly guilty. I really canāt explain why I use them, the reason doesnāt go any deeper beyond āI look nice in them.ā and actually I do love wearing my colored lensesā¦i wera them continuously for maybe a month or two at a time and then go over to clearā¦so I alternate.. but I have made some crazy color choices in the past (purple! blue!) but now that iām older, I know what look sgood on meā¦but at the same time Iāll still experiment with eye colorā¦
its the same wiht coloring hair, sometimes U just want a drastic or subtle change.
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I bought a pair of hazel-grayish ones from a pharmacy in Dubai this summerā¦it was my very first pair and I just wanted to try them outā¦get it out of my system. They were to only last a month and I wore them maybe a maximum of 3-4 times within that time frame. It was funā¦and donāt get me wrongā¦Iām not totally against them. Iām okay with wearing them once in a while..but I just donāt understand why some wear them like almost on a daily basis. Yeah it could be argued that itās like changing your hair colorā¦and that makeup isnāt ānaturalā either. It may very well have nothing to do with low self-esteem and could simply be a love for colored lens. Maybe the reason why it self-esteem gets questioned could be that oneās eyesā¦more than any other part of their bodyā¦are the windows to their souls.
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Well, I wear mine everyday because its just economical..lol.
I buy them by the box (its next to impossible to buy just one pair here)ā¦there are 3 pairs in each box and each pair is supposed to be worn for 2 weeks only (of course not sleeping in them)ā¦I wear my pairs for about a month or so, because I fear that if I leave them alone in their solution for too long, teh contacts will get damagedā¦not sure how true that is, but seeing as how each box is about $50 each, theyāre not that cheap.
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I have (really) bad visionā¦so I would wear clear contacts every dayā¦a couple of years ago I tried on Freshlook Colorblends in Brownā¦it looked exactly like my black eyes but just ābrightenedā themā¦I have been wearing those every single day since thenā¦no one ever asks me if my eyes are real or if Iām wearing colored contactsā¦it looks like my real eyes..I just like how it just gives my eyes that sparkle, and Only I can see the difference wtihout or with my dark brown contactsā¦
But yes I would def not be able to wear colors that are green, blue, gray, hazel every day, because its not me! also colored contacts look fake so whats the point?? its fine wearing it to a party etcā¦but thats itā¦its really tacky wearing it every dayā¦
Also i think it has to do with fashionā¦I remember 10 years ago, EVERYONE would wear colored contacts all the time! it was like changing your clothes every dayā¦so it was completely normal then, however now its rare to see girls with colored contacts nowā¦
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^Are those Colorblends dark brown?
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I have watched a tv show abt colored contacts.they have impact on vision and can make u blind.i love to wear them sometimes.but my sis isnt allowing me to wear them after that 
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Iām not sure if itās a self-esteem issue in general, but it might be in the case you mentioned. With me, I wear contacts very rarely, I wear my glasses most of the time but on formal events where glasses would look in appropriate, I wear my contacts. I only own colored contactsā¦I used to wear clear ones but I have a bad case of dry eyes and after putting my contacts in my eyes, I have trouble taking them out at night and have to fidget with my eyeball and try sliding down my contacts for atleast 30 mins. I had a terrible incident where I put in an old pair of clear contacts in my eye one morning, at night while taking them out, I only found one of them in my eyeā¦I thought it had either melted in my eye (because it felt so thin cuz it was old) or then went in the back of my eye. I didnāt sleep that nightā¦was up for 6 hrs pulling the clear shield which I thought might be my contact from my eyeā¦I was pulling it with my nails and made my eye blood shot red. After crying like a baby, and deciding thereās nothing I can do at this pointā¦and iāll just go to sleep, I found the missing contact lens on the floor and wanted to pull my hair out. In short, I am scarred for life. After that whenever I have ever put clear contacts in my eyes I start panicing and getting anxious and am so afraid they wonāt come out and because theyāre clear, iāll have a hard time finding them like last time. From that day forward, I decided, if I was going to put lens in my eyes, they would have to be colored.
I will say that I also LIKE the way some colored contacts look, my bad experience with clear contacts isnāt the only reason I wear colored contacts. Also, for those people who have a dislike for color contacts, I notice them laughing at the fact that some people wear them ONLY on special occasions because it supposedly makes them look betterā¦or so they think. I find that kind of strange too, or I donāt knowā¦maybe people just reserve colored contacts for special occasions. But many girls I know, who own prescripted contacts, have colored ones that they wear on a daily basis and itās sort of become a part of who they are and it doesnāt seem odd anymore. If I didnāt have a distaste for contacts in general, iād probably be one of those girlsā¦until ofcourse my eye sight stops getting worse so I can laser eye surgery.
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Not that I know of any guys who wear them, since we are not attention whores like our opposite half, but I always found the idea of putting anything in my eyes scary. There are also horror stories of how people bought sub-standard contacts and left them on in their eyes, and they nearly got blind because of it. There was a big suit in my state couple of years back about this. You are supposed to take your contacts out daily, but being lazy or rather annoyed at taking the contacts out each day, people left them on though there arenāt usually a lot of problems because of it.
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**I wear coloured contacts like 4-6 times a year not very often at all ā¦ most of the time i wear glasses.
But my all time fav contacts are the fresh look colourblends: sterling gray. it is soo purteh.
And Yes it is kinda not so natural lookin oneā¦ but the thing is it does not look scary on me, it blends well with my eye adn faceā¦ and i personally kinda like it to be Not so natural lookingā¦ cuz if iām gonna wear contacts then obviously i want them to look very different from my eyes. ( I Love my eye colour too a lot) but when i wear contacts i want it to be kinda obviouse Here iāll post the pic here:
This is how the actual contacts are:
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And this is how they look on me:
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:nono: not for me, i think they look tacky
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I just think that whenever asians have coloured eyes, everyone think theyāre fake. Iād rather be comfortable (and I am!) with my own natural eye colour
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i find them ugly and cant imagine one on myself.
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My personal opinion is that desi girls need to get over this hype with colored lenses. Yes, wow you get to change your eye color, but seriously nothing is more fake and idiotic than that. I personally have not seen one single of them were it looked decent. All of them always looked fake and hideous. They actually give them a vampire, dracula look in the eyes. Its freakish! Will never be able to take them seriously, no offense to anyone here!
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@oOalyshaOo16, you have gorgeous eyes mashallah, im pretty sure they look just a pretty without the contacts too though 
What is the reason you wear contacts, can I ask?
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I think they very rarely look real and therefore just plain weird.
My cousinās family on the other side have lots of members with naturally hazel/green eyes and there is a translucency you just donāt get with coloured contacts.
I prefer brown eyes on our ethnicity anyway.