Semporna Blue Colour Contact Lens – 1 Pair, Yearly, with Case

Product Overview

One pair of blue colour contact lenses from the Eyeshare / Ksseye Semporna series, supplied with a regular lens kit box. They are cosmetic lenses, intended for eye make-up and fashion.

Specification

• Base curve: 8.40mm
• Diameter: 14.2mm
• Material: 2-HEMA
• Water content: 42-45%
• Replacement schedule: yearly
• Made in: Korea
• In the box: 1 pair of lenses (2 pieces) + 1 contact lens case

The base curve and diameter are the two numbers that matter, and they are the reason to have your eyes measured before you wear any lens. They describe the curvature and the width of the lens, and they have to match your eye — not the other way round.

The seller’s own note is fair and worth repeating: the colour looks different under different lighting and against different eye colours. A blue lens on a dark brown iris reads differently from the same lens in a photograph taken in a studio.

Read This Before You Wear Any Coloured Lens

A cosmetic contact lens is a medical device, not make-up. It sits directly on the cornea, which is living tissue with no blood supply of its own, and it takes its oxygen from the air. Everything below follows from that.

• Get your eyes measured by an optometrist before you wear lenses for the first time — including zero-power coloured ones. The two numbers on the pack, base curve and diameter, have to match the shape of your eye. A lens that is too tight starves the cornea of oxygen; one that is too loose slides and scratches. Neither is something you can judge by putting it in.
• Never sleep in them. Sleeping in a lens is the single largest risk factor for a corneal ulcer, and a corneal ulcer can scar the cornea permanently.
• Never share lenses with anyone, not even for one photo. This is how eye infections pass from person to person.
• Never rinse or store them in tap water, mineral water or saliva. Tap water can carry Acanthamoeba, an organism that causes an extremely painful infection which is difficult to treat and can end in sight loss. Multi-purpose contact lens solution only.
• Do not swim, shower or bathe in them for the same reason.
• Take them out for the last time each day before you take your make-up off, and put them in before you put make-up on.
• Build up slowly. Four to six hours a day at first, and never more than eight.

Take the lenses out and see an eye doctor the same day if you have pain, redness that does not settle, light sensitivity, blurred vision, watering or a feeling that something is stuck. Do not wait to see if it improves overnight. Every one of those is an early sign of the problem you do not want.

Children should not wear cosmetic lenses. People with dry eye, an eye infection, or who have had eye surgery should ask their doctor first.

Handling and Storage

1. Wash and dry your hands before you touch a lens. Every single time.
2. Handle it with the pads of your fingers, never with a fingernail, and keep your nails short.
3. Put the lens on your index finger and check the shape. A bowl with straight edges is the right way round; a rim that flares out like a saucer is inside out. An inside-out lens feels uncomfortable and moves.
4. Rub the lens gently in fresh solution in your palm before storing — rubbing removes deposits that rinsing alone leaves behind.
5. Empty the case and refill it with fresh solution every time. Topping up old solution is the most common mistake there is.
6. Rinse the case with solution, air dry it face down, and replace the case every three months.
7. Keep the lenses in the sealed bottles until first use and store the case somewhere cool and dry — not on a bathroom windowsill.

Count the life of the lens from the day you open it, not from the day you bought it. Write the date on the case.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these correct vision?

No. These are plano — zero power — cosmetic lenses. They change the colour of the eye and nothing else. If you need vision correction you need prescription lenses in your own prescription.

“Yearly” means I can wear one pair for a year?

It means the lens material is rated for up to twelve months from the day you first open the bottle, if it is cleaned and stored properly every single day. Poor cleaning shortens that considerably. Write the opening date on the case.

Can I wear them if I already wear glasses?

Only with an optometrist’s advice. A zero-power coloured lens does not correct anything, so you would be swapping clear vision for colour — and wearing a cosmetic lens over an uncorrected eye is uncomfortable as well as blurry.

What if they feel scratchy?

Take them out. A lens that feels scratchy is either inside out, dirty, damaged, or the wrong fit for your eye. Do not push through it — that is how a small irritation becomes a corneal abrasion.

How much of my natural eye colour will show?

On a dark brown iris a blue lens gives a softer, more muted blue than the photographs suggest. That is normal and it is a property of every cosmetic lens, not a fault in this one.