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A pair of special effect contacts is an absolute must for any decent Halloween costume. But there are such a lot of on offer - which lenses are really impressive and which are a waste of money? Find out what costume contact lenses are available and the way to choose the brand that’s best for you.

There are two major types of halloween contacts - round ( traditional shape for contacts that only cover the colored area of your eye ) and scleral costume lenses ( covers the whole visible portion of your eye, leaving no white plain ). There are semi-scleral lenses - they’re larger than the normal ones, but some white is still obvious at the corners of your eyes.

If you are not extremely experienced with color contact lenses, it’s best to go with ordinary ( round ) lenses. Scleral Halloween contacts make a great effect, but they are more difficult to insert and remove, and sometimes not very comfortable to wear. Also, scleral lenses are really expensive - usually upwards from $200 per lens. Semi-scleral lenses, on the other hand, can be a good compromise, because they’re fairly easy to put in and take out and they don’t cost that much.

All special effect lenses are completely opaque. Unlike some color contacts, costume lenses are similarly suitable for light eyes and dark eyes - they completely mask your natural color anyhow. The center of the lens is generally clear, so you can see. If you want vision correction, you should be happy to know that some Halloween special effect contact lenses, like Wild Eyes and silly Lenses, come with corrective powers. If your vision is ideal, you can just get plano ( nil powers ) lenses.

What Halloween special effect lenses are on offer?

The variability of special effects lenses designs is amazing. You’ll be able to find anything you want, from classic hot red or moggy eyes to frost, Dune or Alien designs. The most well liked and exciting looking lenses are halloween special effect wild eyes ( which you can get in yellow, red or white ) Vader, Wolf Eyes, Black-outs and White-outs. You may also get lenses with the symbol of your fave sports team or symbolic prints like smiley face or stars and stripes.

And if you have got your own design in mind you can order customized contact lenses. There are many companies online that employ contact lens artists to make individually painted lenses. Of course, this sort would cost a lot and you’ll have to place your order in advance.

Halloween contacts collections and makers

Two collections reign supreme over the special effect Halloween contacts market - Crazy Lenses, produced by Cooper Vision, and Wild Eyes, produced by Ciba Vision.

Crazy Lenses offers white-out lenses, black, red and white spiral, wolf eyes, fire and bloodshot. Crazy Lenses come as monthly throwaway contacts as well as traditional ( yearly replacement lenses ). Actually , if you won’t wear your funny Lenses every day and care for them properly, yearly lenses can last 18 months. If you are trying to find the cheapest option for this Halloween - monthly disposable insane Lenses is usually the cheapest top quality contact lens you can get. Mad Lenses are available with or without prescription.

Wild Eyes are annual replacement special effect lenses. You can get cat Eye, Hypnotica, Black-out and White-out, Icefire, Zoomin, Zebra, Jaguar and Wildfire. Wild Eyes colours are bright and vivid and the lenses are very comfortable. You can get Wild Eyes with or without corrective powers.

9mmSFX lenses - the company that made special effect lenses for movies like Hellraiser, Blair magician Project 2, The journeys of Pluto Nash and plenty of other famous films. They offer lots of designs, all of their lenses are hand-painted, and they create incredible effects. The only draw-back is that 9mmSFX lenses aren’t mass produced - so they cost a lot.

Compare Halloween special effect contacts by different brands and have great frightful fun!