Ciba Vision Air Optix

AIR OPTIX NIGHT & DAY CONTACT LENSES from CIBA VISION -- bear with me, as this will be a very long review!!! -- I've been using these contact lenses for just over a year now, and have had no problems with them apart from the sightly fiddly individual lens packaging (open new ones over the sink and rinse with saline solution if they fall in!). However, let me give you a bit of background as to why I now use them and would recommend them. I've worn contact lenses since I was 18 (that's 16 years! - gosh, I feel old now!) after struggling with glasses since the age of 4. My first specs were those awful - but now very retro - pink plastic ...

I have worn glasses for more than half of my life believing that contact lenses are uncomfortable, make your eyes very tired, you cannot swim, you cannot work with computer, wear make up and - worst of all - every morning you have to struggle trying to put them in, then walk with teary eyes for half a day... One day, tired of wearing glasses and not looking so cool (since I was a teenager, it was very important), I decided to start wearing contact lenses. No matter what. First purchase was harder ones, that you had to take out of an eye as soon as you come home and have to put back in in the morning. Of course, I got used to it after some time, but ...

I was asked by Specssavers whether I would try out the Air Optix contact lenses instead of my other lenses for a week. I tried the lenses but was disappointed by their casing as I didn't feel it was very easy to get the lense out. I also wasn't very impressed by the contact lense itself, maybe it's because I'm used to my normal brand, but the lense kept coming out of my eye and it took several attempts to get it to stay in. The lense wasn't suitable for me, however it may be suitable for other ...