Halloween is but a few weeks away and it is never too early to start planning for the costume. You can never be quite prepared, in fact, for there is always the catastrophe of someone else getting up the same costume as you and you never want to be a mere echo in the world of fashion. Whether your motive is to exude smoking hot appeal or to spook the daylights out of them this Halloween, your get-up would be all the more complete for a pair of contact lenses that finish off your desired look and top it off with style. Here are some ideas for using Halloween contact lenses to good effect.

You might have already learned from fashion experts that shading your eyelids with dark colors diverts more attention to them – that is one of the main reasons we use mascara and eye shadow. There is something else you can add to the look of your eyes in addition to kohl and make-up, and that is a pair of colored contact lenses. If you have always wanted to try different tints, here is a chance to try some bold ones. Agreed, they may be a little spooky, but they will definitely set off your costume in a way that would leave others far behind. Putting on green tinted contact lenses or orange ones is appropriate if your costume is colorful. But if you go for basic black in your costume, there are contact lenses available in designs that mimic satanic symbols and cabalistic signs. You can end up with eyes that look like a banshee’s with orange or a shock of red tinge in them. The most common Halloween contact lenses are the cat’s eyes which are readily available in stores and all over the internet. You can first look through these listings and then decide on your costume according to the theme of the lenses.

If you have still not figured what costume you plan to wear this Halloween, you can choose on the basis of the lenses available. You can even plan along with your friends to bring to life some cabal characters. If you have your costume all ready and planned for, you can add an extra edge by adding sexy or scary appendages in the form of Halloween contact lenses and false eye lashes. Play around with body-glitter gels and eye liner to achieve the right effect that goes with your costume.

Wearing contact lenses with flecks of color and glitter is a good way to enhance your Halloween costume and make sure you stand out in the crowd of merry-makers. Okay, so your idea is not to make merry but to make people shake in their shoes. You can try the eerie styles to actually achieve that too, what with white eyes and bloodshot eyes making people’s hearts miss beats. There are contact lenses that can make your eyeballs look bigger or smaller, or a different shape altogether, if you so wish.

Wearing these contact lenses needs extreme care; it is not a good idea to wear them for a long time, but once in a while, especially when you have an occasion such as Halloween, it is alright to wear them for a few hours. Then there are the black contact lenses which hide the whites of your eyes and make your eye look all black. This is sure to make you look eerie, if ever.

Some of the most popular styles of contact lenses are vampire lenses and ‘dearly departed’ or ghostly eyes. These are for those who would really like to try the ghoulish kind of pranks. Vampire eyes come in combinations of shocking colors ranging from pale yellow to bright red. The ‘Twilight’ range comes with contact lenses in colors ranging from sunset yellow to amber and deeper shades like caramel. Who says electric blue for an eye color is inappropriate? Try it out with confidence and make up a costume that looks as if the blue thunder of Neptune might strike people are around you.

Styles of Halloween Contacts

For those of you who are not so keen on making scary figurines of yourself, try the fun eyes and the sexy eyes that can add to your Halloween look without making you look like a spook. You can try out fun ideas like the Anime heroes’ eyes which have stained eyeballs in unpredictable patterns. Adventurous choices of colors are also available – green, mauve, purple and light banana yellow. The fun eyes are those in pink, yellow and bright blue, with funny little patterns on the lens. For example, there is the pair of lenses which look like you have a twirling fan in your eyeball. Rave contacts are a good idea to try if you would like to have some fun and adventure without spooking out the neighbors.

The reason we say there is a gap between designer eyeglasses and practical ones is because most people either ask for this one or that one when they go to meet their optometrist. It is kind of like fashion shoes and sensible shoes! Rarely do people ask for shoes that are both fashionable and sensible.

Eyeglasses have been around for several centuries now, and there has been a tremendous amount of change that has happened in the science around them. Machines have taken over the responsibility of making precision eyewear as per the doctor’s orders, and there is a deluge in the number of models of frames! For a very long time, the term designer was reserved for sunglasses almost exclusively. Sunglasses – even today – have various models which come in limited editions, and they are made to order – in a particular color combination, or with a mix of unique materials. Those were considered to be ‘designer’. However, over the recent years, the gap between these designer eyeglasses and practical ones has steadily been diminishing.

The primary cause for that is the availability of a wide range of designer frames into which you can fit glasses of any kind – even the high power ones. Earlier – even till a decade or so ago – both frames and glasses were picked up from the optician, and often, they had the final say over the combination. It was rare to see a customer decide what kind of a frame he’d like to go with his glasses. But with technology making it possible for us to select from a myriad range now, making your own designer eyeglasses has become quite simple. You can ask your optician to make your eyeglasses with a particular frame, and he will be able to do it. If he can’t, you can just go online and select the frame you’d like to use, and the glass can either be picked from your optometrist, or that also can be ordered online. Take about customer empowerment!

Designer eyeglasses are not just restricted to the frames. There are so many new kinds of glasses available in the market today, selecting from among them is truly a mammoth task! We have transitions glasses that change according the light outside, we have glasses that double up as eye protectors and sunglasses, and glasses that have bi-focal vision without the mandatory line between them! And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

All of this has made sure that designer eyeglasses can be as practical as you’d like them to. Try them out the next time you change your spectacles. No more boring eyeglasses for you!