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Do you have a teen or tween that is begging to get rid of his or her glasses and start wearing contact lenses? Do you keep fighting with him or her because you worry about the cost and the potential health risks associated with wearing contact lenses? That is exactly why I fought my daughter about getting contact lenses for about two years. This year, I decided to start researching things a little deeper to find out if all of my concerns were legitimate. Boy, I was surprised when I learned what I did. This blog will share the insight about teens and tweens and contact lenses.

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How To Emulate Unusual-Looking Eyes For Cosplay

13 October 2015
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Cosplaying your favorite character sometimes requires more than just changing the color of your eyes. Anime, video game, and comic book characters often have crazy-looking eyes, with unique designs that give these characters an inhuman appearance. While it's not a necessity to cosplay your favorite character, polishing off your costume with the perfect pair of contact lenses can make your cosplay stand out amongst others at conventions. This guide will explain how your optometrist can help you to create the perfect cosplay look.

Stars In Your Eyes

Some characters, like Nia from Gurren Lagann or the race of Al Bhed from Final Fantasy X, have irises with crosses, swirls, and other shapes. Contact lenses can actually imitate these appearances, and many don't impact your vision negatively. If part of a contact lens design overlaps your pupil, it may tint your vision or block a portion of your vision, but designs on the iris won't cause this problem. You can choose between having a contact lens with a special design that alters the color of your eyes, or one that maintains the color and just changes the shape.

Cateyes Manipulation

Cat eyes, with their narrow, vertical pupils, are extremely common in comics and other media. Cat Woman, the species Mithra and Miqo'te from the Final Fantasy series, and a wide variety of other cat-humanoids have narrow pupils to complete the cat-like appearance.

Cat contacts are available through optometrists, but they may somewhat limit your perception. In order to create the vertical, thin pupil look, they have to partially cover your own real pupil with color emulating a cat's iris. You'll still be able to see, but if your costume already partially limits your peripheral vision, cat eye lenses may not be the best choice.

Black-Out

Black-Out lenses allow cosplayers to emulate any number of characters with completely black eyes. Whether you want to imitate a more neutral black eye, like a fallen angel with a normally-shaped iris but colored black, or a more intense black eye, like Dark Willow's completely black eyes, contacts can achieve this appearance.

Normally-shaped black eyes won't impact your vision negatively at all, as all they have to do is make your normal eye color appear black. The full-black eye will also not affect your vision, but it requires a much larger contact lens to cover the entirety of the visible portion of your eye. Work with an optometrist to determine if you can wear these larger contacts comfortably or not.

Custom Designs

If none of these ideas suit your needs, don't worry! Optometrists not only have a massive collection of designs and shapes of contacts they can order for you, but some companies will even help you to design your own. These contacts will truly make your costume one of a kind and give you the perfect appearance to match the character you're cosplaying.

Optometrists can offer custom-fit, prescription or non-prescription contact lenses in a wide variety of styles and designs that can make your costume absolutely perfect. They're safe, affordable, and will really wow fellow cosplayers and cosplay contest judges. Check out a clinic like EyeCare About Vegas: Dr. R Dougal Morrison & Dr. Christopher Coker for more info.