Oct 14th, 2009
With Halloween coming up I’ve started to realize that everywhere I look online I’m finding more and more information and ads about colored contacts. It seems like they have every color in the rainbow and then some. Now that they have used all the colors it seems like they are coming out with every shape and design you can think of. Some of the best colors I’ve run across have been purple contact lenses, red contact lenses and yellow contact lenses.
I’ve seen some other colors and shapes but they are usually so far out there that I can only imagine them being useful during Halloween or other festivals. If you are looking for natural colors like green or blue, you will probably want to have light colored eyes.
I’ve always found that these types of fads usually come and go, but I think colored contact lenses in general are probably here to stay. One of the coolest colors so far, besides the ones I mentioned earlier would probably be pink contact lenses but you pretty much need to be a girl to wear them, so I wouldn’t get any use out of them. Maybe for a gift?
Sep 30th, 2009
Orthokeratology is a fairly new technique that basically involves contact lenses, that you wear while you are sleeping and they work to fix the curvature of your eye.
Many people are hesitant, and rightly so, to go under any kind of blade when it comes to their eyes.
The eyes are extremely fragile and one wrong move could hurt your vision for your life, or even cause you to lose eyesight completely.
That’s what a lot of people are excited about this new technique, as am I.
The bad news is that right now it’s not cheap. The contact lenses can run $200 or so, so not a lot of people want to shell out that kinda cash on something they haven’t seen work, or haven’t heard a lot about yet.
Only time will tell.
Sep 30th, 2009
There was recently a bill going through congress that was causing quite an outrage. The basics of it are that they were trying to tax every item that was classified as a medical device, no matter how much it costs.
Just a few years ago contact lenses were considered not to be medical devices but because of a certain law that was passed they now are considered to be, and therefore could be taxed. The problem is that these taxes will be mostly paid by the end consumer, whereas the higher taxes on medical devices are paid by the insurance companies, which everybody loves.
They are not going to go through with it fortunately. This also relates items like condoms, which are considered medical devices.
With contact lenses, you used to be able to pick them up anywhere, flea markets, corner stores but ever since that law passed it has become much tougher. You can’t really blame people for wanting to avoid taxes, especially in situations like this.