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Owl Contact Lens Case
by k2705
At Christmas my Mum and Dad always do me, my Husband and now Jayden a stocking filled with small and useful gifts. Mine usually takes on a pink theme as whenever I buy something I always go for the pink option if there is one. One of the items which was in my stocking this year was the Kirkerland Owl Contact Lens case, it was pink and ... very cute, I wear contact lenses on a daily basis and since receiving this extremely cute contact lens case have used it every day.
The Kirkerland Owl Contact Lens Case came in a clear plastic box just a little bigger than the case, it had a pink card which covered half of the box and had the name of the product printed on it. The packaging really wasn't anything fancy, it was basic but the clear box allowed you to see the cute case inside. I suppose your could keep the clear plastic box to keep the contact lens case in, however personally I just threw this away once I had removed the lens case from it.
The Kirkerland Owl Contact Lens case has a bright pink owl shaped face, this is basically an oval with 2 small points on the top to form the owls ears, this is the base of the case, this has 2 large dips in it which is where the contact lenses are stored. The 2 lids are designed to look like the owls eyes, these are white around the edges with smaller black circles in the centre, once the lids are screwed onto the base these make up the owls face. In the centre of the base just between the 2 oversize eyes is a small bright orange beak, once they eyes (lids) are screwed onto the case you can see the completed owls face.
When I first saw the case there was no obvious way to show which was the left and right contact case, with my free cases the blue is right and the white is left, however both sides are the same with this case as they are designed to look like owl eyes, however once the lids are removed inside each case has an L and a R printed into the bottom, personally I do not have a problem with the case not being colour coded but for whose who prefer their contact lens case to be colour coded this may be a problem.
Obviously I did not personally purchase the Kirkerland Owl Contact Lens case as it was a gift, however I asked my parents where they purchased it from and how much it cost and this item can be purchased from Amazon and costs. £3.99. Personally I think this is a fair price especially as it is so cute. Some people may think that it is a bit of a waste as you can get free ones with your lenses from the optician, however I personally much prefer to use my owl contact lens case than the free ones purely because of the design.
The care instructions of this item are much the same as all contact lens cases, it recommends that you can use it for around 3 months, although this depends on how often you use it. You should not wash your lens case out with water or any soaps, I personally clean mine using my actual contact solution and tend to clean it every night before I use it to store my lenses, I simply squeeze some of the solution into the case and then lightly rub around it with clean fingers, I then repeat this process with the lids as well. I find that doing this keeps the case clean but without harming your lenses or without the risk of putting any chemicals into your eyes.
Since I received the Kirkerland Owl Contact Lens Case I have used it every evening to store my contact lenses in, the lids screw onto the case tightly and securely so that none of the solution leaks out, this prevents the lenses from drying out and also makes travelling with your lenses in the case much easier, if the case gets tipped up then you do not have to worry about leaks.
The case is reasonably priced and well made, it is strong and sturdy so I know my contact lenses will be safe in here, in my opinion it is definitely worth the money. The case is a cute design and looks much nicer than the free ones you get. Overall I would highly recommend the Kirkerland Owl Contact Lens Case to anyone who wears contact lenses.
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Bausch and Lomb Screw Top Lens Case
by Tolteca
I am seriously short-sighted. Glasses at seven. Bi-focals at fifteen - and what teenager wants those. The first thing I do when I wake up is reach for my glasses, which have to be in hands reach or I trip over things on the way to the bathroom to put my contacts in. The lenses in said glasses had to come all the way from Japan as Nikkon ... were the only ones able to do thin enough lenses at the power they had to be. Specsavers is unfortunately not an option for disposable contact lenses and my optician keeps not answering the question on how high a prescription level my hiighly astigmatic ridiculously high powered contact lenses go.
So, as you can see, I am stuck with the need for a contact lens case rather than being sent disposables through the post.
I do love to travel. But both my glasses - which have their own metal and well cushioned case - and my lenses have to travel safely with me, or I go all that way and see blur - and not the band, just blur. I would consider moving to just the glasses but to drive I need the lenses for the fully funtionalg peripheral vision I get from lenses over my trendy but narrow field glasses. Plus, having the back-up of the lenses was essential when one lens fell out of my glasses and it needed an optician to get it to stay where it belonged.
So, I do have an absolute requirement for a contact lens case which will keep my contacts hydrated, not leak and will also take some serious punishement traveling without taking it out on their precious and horribly expensive but vulnerable contents.
I have used both the cases which you can get with new bottles of contact lens solutions and more permanant cases. Back in the day I had little choice but to use Baush and Lomb cases as they were the only ones which went in the boiler unit which I had to use to disinfect the leses. When better solutions came along, I kept the same brand as they were sturdy and did not leak.
I was unfaithful with the lens case included with solution cases, which did have the advantage of having different coloured tops for lefty lens and righty lens. This may be just a design element for those with only a small level of short-sightedness but when your focal point is just past the end of your nose a blue blur is much easier to differentiate from a white blur and makes it so much easier to put the lens in the right place. This is especially important when you are even more short-sighted in one eye than the other - putting the wrong one in does make one eye seriously blurry.
Unfortunately Bausch and Lomb does not tend to colour differentiate and it is a case of peering very, very closely to make sure lefty and righty - which are both extreme prescription level but differ in just how strong the prescription is significantly - go in the right place. The case does look sleeker all one colour but I think the different colour option is one they should adopt a lot more widely to help their most short-sighted customers.
So why do I keep using this case?
Because it is very, very sturdy and very, very secure. It is harder work to use this case but it has never leaked on me, never broken - despite being dragged up mountains, across rivers and being thrown around in my luggage. I have taken this case with me to every extreme of conditions there are and from the top of mountains to the tropical rainforest it has never let me down.
It let me see those things.
The plastic is just that strong. The seal is that good. The screw top stays shut but opens easily. And it cleans without warping ensuring your leses remain hygenic.
It can be a pain finding these, with places like Boots pushing their own brand, but Lloyds and especially the internet will provide between £1.49 to £4.99.
So I will continue to use these, even if I will spend a little longer next time I replace the case looking for one from this brand with some colour differentiation as peering is a nuisance.
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