Free Contact Lenses?

Many people now are looking to save a few bucks. One great way to do this is to get a few, free pairs of sample contact lenses. This will save your costs on contacts and let you try some other brands. Check this out:

Free Contact Lenses

There are a lot of different brands of contact lenses available for you to purchase and usually each brand will have free trial contacts that you will be able to try to see if you like them.

You can even get free color contact lenses. So what colors do you want to try? You can try several brands, so why not try a few different colors to see what you like and what looks the best on you? You can't share them with friends, but you can ask them how they look on you. It's fun to change your appearance, which I guess it's why they also call them cosmetic colored contacts. It seems that many people now are trying this. You can either enhance the natural color of your eyes or go to a totally new color. Why not?
-Tony

Update on My Contacts

Well, December 1st came around and I decided I'd try a pair from another box. I did that and I noticed a huge improvement. These work much better and I'm much happier. I must have received some that were not made right or something. So maybe CooperVision has some consistency problems, I don't know.

If you think about it, making contact lenses is pretty incredible. They all really look about the same but the size and shape of them vary quite a bit. You need the right curvature for the shape or your eye and then vision correction on top of that. It's just amazing that we have them available and that they work. We're all used to having them but I don't take them for granted and find myself in awe of them sometimes. I have absolutely clear vision by putting some small, plastic lenses in my eye and they stay in the right place. Again... amazing. I guess I don't like to take things for granted and contact lenses fall into that category.

Non Corrective Colored Contact Lenses to Change Your Look

Have you ever considered changing your eye color? Do you want to try blue eyes, green/hazel eyes or even gray colored eyes? You can with colored contact lenses and it's not that difficult of a thing to do.

Many people are not aware that they can get colored contact lenses to change the color of their eyes without the contacts being corrective. You can get contact lenses that have no corrective powers. They are called "plano" contact lenses and have no magnification or vision correction. This means you can wear them when you want, like for going out for a night on the town or for special events.

When choosing a color, you can make as a dramatic of a change as you want. You can just simply enhance your eye color or you can totally change it. If you want to completely alter the color of your eyes, then you will need opaque colored contact lenses. These totally block out your natural eye color and your eyes become whatever color the contact lenses are. Some of the more crazy designs are used for Halloween costumes or for theatrical performances or even photo shoots.

To get non corrective colored contacts is simple. You'll need to stop in to an eye doctor to get fitted and then you're allowed to place an order. One popular brand is Acuvue colored contacts. Most people get that brand. It's a good idea to go with a name brand because you know quality materials are being used. You would never want to get cheap colored contact lenses from a drugstore or some website because they would not be fitted for your eyes and they may be made of inferior materials that could actually cause damage to your eyes. Your eyes get oxygen not from your blood stream but from the surrounding air. So if that air is passing through a contact lens made of some bad kind of material, then it will pick up that material and it will go right into your eyes. This could cause very serious eye infections. So get good ones.

Find out more about getting non corrective colored contacts.

Problems With My Contacts This Month

I don't know why but the new pair of contacts that I put in my eyes this month aren't as good as the ones I had in last month. At night, my eyes get dry and things seem out of focus.

I do have astigmatism, so my contact lenses are toric lenses and they have small weights on the bottom of them to keep them in place. I think that's why they're going out of focus - because my eyes are dry and the lens can't get into the right position as easily. I'm going to get some rewetting drops and see if that helps. I've been switching to glasses at night though. I figure that's better than straining my eyes.

If that helps, I'll put a post here so that maybe it will help someone. I think it will. If not, then I might see about getting a different brand that next time I place my order, which is probably next Spring - if I can wait that long. I think the drops will help at night. I might just try to get some more sample contacts from different manufacturers next time so I can see more difference from other brands of contact lenses.

Save Money on Contact Lenses

If you're like me and you wear contacts, you know that wearing them can get expensive. When you factor in the appointment with the optometrist, the lenses themselves, all the contact cleaning solution, cases, eye glasses and so on, the bill really adds up. So here are a number of ways to save money on contacts.

First, when you go for your next appointment, check out the prices of other places. If you normally see a doctor at his office, find out if going to a clinic inside a department store is cheaper. Places like Sears and JC Penny have optical departments that do a great job and have licensed eye doctors on staff. You may be able to save money by going there.

Next, when you get your prescription and order your contacts, you should first order free, trial pairs of contact lenses. When you do this, you can try different brands to see which ones you like the best. You can order many sets from different manufacturers, so you will be saving money on the lenses themselves just by ordering these free contact lenses.

Then instead of paying for your appointment, contact lenses, cleaning solution and cases yourself, see if you can use tax free money in the form of a Health Savings Account (HSA). With your HSA, the money for this account is put there before taxes, so you do not pay income tax on it and you get to use it for a variety of health related expenses - not just for your eye care.

And then you want to look for sales that happen from time to time. Many national chains and department store optical departments will run sales every few months. With those sales, you can either find discounts on eye care, a free eye doctor appointment, free eyeglass frames or other deals and discounts. Look for email newsletter lists that you can sign up for and they may send you special offers for doing that.

Conclusion

To review, you can search for the best prices on eye doctor / optometrist appointments. You can get free, sample pairs of contact lenses to save money there. You can use your HSA to pay for all your eye related expenses and then you can watch for sales and special offers. All of these things together could save you literally a few hundred dollars a year, which is money in your pocket!