Choose The Best Coloured Contacts To Match Your Skin Tone

The most active muscles in your body are not in your arms, your back, or your legs, but in your eyes!

With more than two million functioning parts, your eyes process over 36,000 visual messages per hour. Most of the information our brains take in is through our eyes.

With such a workload, your eyes could use some help. Fortunately, you can always correct your vision with prescription contact lenses. These lenses are available in a variety of colors and shades, and they also make great fashion accessories.

Read on to learn how to choose the best-colored contact lenses to match your skin tone.

Different Types Of Coloured Contacts

Colored contacts come in different sizes. The colors also have different patterns and densities. To choose the best contact lenses for your skin tone, it is important to know the different types of colored contacts.

• Opaque lenses: They entirely mask your natural eye color.
• Color-enhancement tints: These contacts only shade your natural eye color. For instance, if you have blue eyes, these lenses can lighten or darken your natural eye color.
• Equinox lenses (or circle lenses): They have a dark ring around the iris to bring about a subtle, but dramatic effect. They’re particularly effective on light eyes.
• Sports-tinted (or custom-tinted) lenses: They’re both practical and cosmetic. The choice of color may reduce glare and heighten depth perception. They’re mostly used by athletes.
• Theatrical lenses (or cosmetic lenses): These add special effects to your eyes. They’re usually worn during special occasions like Halloween. For example, you can get cat eyes, wild eyes, or even all-black eyes.

Colored contact lenses are safe as long as they are prescribed and cared for properly.

Determine Your Skin Tone

A warm skin tone means that your skin has peachy, golden, or yellow undertones. Cool skin, on the other hand, has bluish, pinkish, or reddish undertones. Some people have a neutral skin tone that is a mix of cool and warm tones, although this is not common.

There is a trick to determining your skin tone. Do gold or silver accessories look better on you? If you have always preferred gold as your best accessory, then it means you have a warm skin tone. If you tend to go with silver accessories, then you probably have a cool skin tone. However, if you look good with both gold and silver accessories, then you probably have a neutral skin tone.

There is another way to find out your skin tone: You can check your veins! If you have greenish veins, then you probably have a warm undertone. If you have bluish veins, it means you have a cool skin tone. However, if your veins appear colorless or match your skin tone, you have a neutral skin tone.

Choose Colored Contact Lenses That Match Your Skin Tone

When choosing colored contact lenses, it is important to evaluate how they look on your eyes. They should be as close to invisible as possible, but still noticeable enough to give you the most natural look possible.

The contact lenses need to move when you blink. However, if the lenses move too much, they won’t look as natural. If the colored parts of the lenses don’t lay well over the iris, your eyes won’t look natural either.

1- Cool Skin Tone

Do you have a cool skin tone? Then you will look good with gray, purple, or blue contact lenses because they will complement your undertone. Generally, for people with this skin tone, it is recommended to go for light lens colors like turquoise, amethyst, and aqua.

2- Neutral Skin Tone

Neutral-toned skin ranges from a light brown to a light olive complexion. If you have this skin tone, then you can wear any color you like! People with this skin tone can rock a wide range of color choices from brown, honey, and hazel, to grey, green, and violet.

3- Warm Skin Tone

If you have a warm skin tone, the best-colored contact lenses for your eyes should have honey, hazel, brown, or light blue accents. These colors will contrast strongly with your skin tone.

We advise you to choose the colors that match your particular skin tone.

Other Considerations When Choosing Colored Contact Lenses

Aside from your skin tone, there are other factors to consider when choosing the best contact lens color for your eyes. These include:

1- Hair Colour

Blonde hair not only suits a wide range of eye colors but also makes your eye colors look even brighter. However, you will get the best results with blue, green, or violet lenses.

Green contact lenses go best with all red hair colors. Light green contact lenses are more suitable for deep reds, while darker greens go well with lighter red hair. You can also consider blue contact lenses if you don’t want to opt for the typical green.

If you have brown hair, you should opt for brown or hazel contact lenses. Different shades of brown combine well to create a natural and effective look. If you’re going for a drastic look, blue is for you!

Just like blonde hair, black hair goes well with all eye colors. From lighter greens to darker browns, they all look fantastic with black hair.

2- Lighting

Use a hand mirror to check how your colored contact lenses look in low and bright light. Also, consider where you are most likely to wear the contact lenses. Are they just for a Halloween costume? Or will you be wearing them every day at work?

If you’ve settled on two colors, that’s great! Try wearing a different color on each eye and check the result in different lighting conditions.