Have you ever contemplated changing your eye colour, even just for a day? If so, choose the colour carefully, as it might communicate more about your personality than intended. According to an American survey commissioned by FreshLook, blue-eyed people come across as sexy, sweet and kind, while brown eyes are associated with intelligence and trustworthiness. Green eyes stand for creativity and deviousness.
If the FreshLook research is to be trusted, Paris Hilton opts for sexiness over intelligence as she spends over £150 per pair of her Ciba Vision Light Blue Elegance Opaque coloured contact lenses to get blue eyes. The contact lenses are custom-made for her, and her new, intense eye colour is as well-known and recognisable as her socialite lifestyle.
The Light Blue Elegance Opaque contact lenses are next to impossible to get hold of, but Hilton fans will be able to find similar tinted lenses from other manufacturers and for a fraction of the price. While Ciba Vision’s FreshLook is the most popular brand, CooperVision’s Expressions is another well-known coloured contact lens, and Bausch & Lomb and Acuvue also manufacture high-quality alternatives.
Other celebrities who have changed their complexion with coloured contact lenses include Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise and Britney Spears. Ms Spears has been seen with one blue and one brown eye, suggesting that one coloured contact lens would have fallen out.
When asked, 60% of the FreshLook survey participants were curious to try changing their eye colour, with green being the most popular colour. Judging by this year’s FHM list of World’s Top 100 Sexist Women, however, blue is still eye colour number one. A majority of the top ten were blue-eyed girls, and Britney Spears made it to number four.
Coloured contact lenses come as visibility tints, enhancement tints, and opaque colour tints, offering the wearer a choice in regards to colour intensity. The contact lenses can be worn purely for aesthetical reasons, so called plano lenses, or in combination with any vision correction required, but a prescription is needed either way.