Vain or vital? (Contact Lenses in general)

Member Name: shaneo632

Product:	Contact Lenses in general
Date:	28/06/09 (6 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very good for self-esteem

Disadvantages: Obviously entail a cost, involves touching your eye

There's a big debate about contact lenses that contains two central issues - the sheer horror of placing something in your eye, opposed to how much it raises your self-confidence and thus makes your social life a lot easier.

I've had glasses since the age of 4, and whilst they have thus been a part of me, I did find that they reduced my self confidence, particularly when speaking to members of the opposite sex. They made me self conscious, but that's more me than the glasses themselves - contact lenses are largely a vanity option (unless your job requires you can't have things like glasses obstructing your face).

Still, I have Boots monthly contact lenses, and must praise them. It has to be said that the process of putting the lenses in your eye takes a LOT of adjusting to. It took me several weeks before I was really particularly adept at putting them in my eye, for it requires you opening the eyelid wide with one finger, and then placing it on your eye with another, and then blinking.

They do require some light maintenance also that you wouldn't get with daily disposables - you have to leave them in solution overnight and whenever you're not wearing them, and replace the solution every day, otherwise they are left stewing in dirt and general filth which is NOT good (as they will sting horribly when in your eye, and probably reduce you to tears).

However, as far as self-confidence goes, they really helped me in my more formative years. People mostly saw the change as positive (and noted how absolutely different I looked, and also how they accentuated my "pretty" eyes), and I have absolutely no regrets about getting them. They cost me about £25 a month at the moment because I have to have special toric lenses for my astigmatism (which makes my eyeballs more like rugby balls than normal circles!), but it's £300 a year that I gladly spend.

Summary: A great boost to the self-esteem