So I went to the optometrist today to get my colored contacts!
I've never had an eye exam before, so this was all pretty new to me. I told them that I wanted colored contacts and I didn't need them for vision correction.
So, the whole process took about 2 hours, lots of vision tests, and the optometrist confirmed that I have better than 20/20 vision and don't need a powered lens.
She then asked what kind of colored contacts I was looking for and I mentioned that I was interested in the Fresh Look contacts, since I'd read about them and was familiar with the colors they offered. I told her I was looking for a hazel-y color, something as yellow as they had, and the one that makes the color pop out the most, and I mentioned that I had liked the look of their "Honey" color.
She brought a trial lens in Honey and also one of Accuvue's similar-colored lens, I think it's also called honey.
When she took me to a room to try putting them in, they had dilated my pupils and things were pretty blurry up close, so it was really hard for me to see the lens on my fingertip when I tried to put it in. ^^;
She asked me how comfortable I was with touching my eyes, and I said it didn't bother me at all, which is good in this case, because it took a few trys poking around to get it in right.
Once I got the lens in, I was like,
!! My reflection was pretty blurry, but it made a dramatic difference against my regular blue eye (which right then was 97% black from pupil dilation!!)
The Accuvue lens was more subtle, not what I was looking for, and the Fresh Look lens was a better fit for my eye as well.
Once I had it in, it felt pretty natural! Sometimes when I put them in, they cause me to tear up a bit, but then they're pretty comfortable. I'm pretty excited about them. It'll be really fun to wear them to work and have people go, "something about you is different..." and try to figure it out. Haha! Or show up to hang out with my friends and have them go, "waitaminute..." *STARE*
I only got to take my trial lenses home today, as they're ordering the regular ones in for me. The bummer with the trial ones is that a part of the color is missing from the lens and it says "DEMO" or "TRIAL" on it. Depending on which way you put them in, it's not terribly noticable, but I'll have the regular ones before I start wearing them out.
Also, upon leaving the office, my pupils were freakin' GI-NORMOUS. Yeah, that's right. I said GI-NORMOUS.
I went to check out this new-ish sushi place down the street, and I always feel rude/weird talking to people while wearing sunglasses, so I took them off when I was ordering, and I'm all squinting to look at my receipt, and the guy's looking at my eyes, and I'm like, "oh, I just came from the optometrist, LULZ." And he was like, "I know, rite, LOL." (...except not really, no one talks like that, but I'd laugh or maybe cry if they did)
So anyway, HUGE pupils last about 4 hours. My mom didn't even notice with my sunglasses on. I put the contacts on, put on my sunglasses, went over to my little brother and said, "hey man," then I flipped the glasses up to show him my eyes and he goes:
....*looks*
!!!HOLY CRAP! That's cool!!!
With my VSP insurance, I paid only a $10 co-pay for the office visit. I'm not sure yet what the pricing will be for the contacts themselves, or if those are covered as well.
Also, the optometrist told me that I was the easiest contact lens-fitting she'd had. So I can't guarantee the experience will be as fun/simple as it was for me for any of you guys. Just depends on how comfortable you are with touching your eyes, how eager you are to do it, how upbeat, and "I can do this no problem!" you are. (I always think like that ^^;) and I guess how agreeable and trusting you are of your eye doctor.
For me it was a pretty cool experience!
I'll post some pics I took with the trial lenses!
