Contacts, pros and cons
 

i just got my first pair of contacts today i was just wondering how many other people on the forums wear them? and i mean corrective contacts not those astetic "o look my eyes are purple i'm so COOL!" type. do you have any tips to assist in my poking my self in the eye? please no advice useing powertools or knife like objects... sporks are ok

For about the first one-two months, you will spend the majority of your time poking yourself in the eye to get the damned things in. Then one day you'll wake up and pop em in with no problem, as if it was second nature.

I wear them whenever I go out, but I don't see the need on weekends when I'm couch-lazing-intensive.

And just for laughs, how long did it take you to put them in the first time? I spent well over an hour in the mall optemetrist place, and I kept this kindly old lady by my side until after the store had officialy closed...

Since it's a cons thread too... I'd never wear contacts. I get freaking nervous when something gets close to my eyeballs. It's almost a phobia, except I know for a fact that it stems from the uncut verion of Any Given Sunday and possibly A Clockwork Orange. Gaaah.

And now I'm stuck with the freaking semi-emo style glasses I picked years ago. Stupidity, thy screenname is Meister.

Anyway, if I were to get contacts, I think I would only pick weird-coloured ones. :D

Any Given Sunday minor spoiler: It's a football movie, and towards the end there's a scene where a player loses an eye mid-game. He gets knocked on the back if his head or something, starts to scream, the medics rush in, and we are treated to a nice close-up of the eyeball lying on the ground. I was completely unprepared for this, and it freaked the hell outta me.

I wear contacts for school, since I see better with them then glasses (Which is a pro, contacts are better for seeing since they are right on your eye, and can't get dirty).

As for putting them in, that was easy for me. I never poked myself in the eye, and the person said I put the contacts at the store in my eyes faster then most people (I don't know how long I took). Taking them out is very easy though.

A con about contacts is if they fall out and you don't have any contact solution. Putting them in dry is impossible (And if you can it, it will hurt until it gets wetted up, which will take a while), or you have to use normal water, which also hurts (Something about protien... I don't know why)

I use normal water all the time. It doesn't really bother me. I haven't used saline in years. Hell, with the opti-free stuff I have now, I don't even rinse the washing solution off. My eyes are tough. Rar.

It also took me about 5-10 minutes my first time, and I never poked myself in the eye afterward. Longest it's ever taken is 15, because I tend to keep contacts WELL after the expiration date, basically just until they start to irritate me after being cleaned, so from time to time they'll pop out about 20 times.

Also, here's how I put them in: I put the contact on my fore finger, lift my eye wide with my other hand, and pull down on my cheek with the other fingers of that hand. I then look in the mirror and pop them in. Easy peasy one two threezy. Or something.

As for the pros and cons...

Pros: They don't hide my beautiful face. I can see better with them. I can lay down on the side of my head with them. It's cheaper to replace them if you need a new prescription. Chicks dig contacts.

Cons: They're more expensive if you don't ever need to change your prescription (it adds up). If you get something in them it will hurt like a bitch. If you wear them for too long they have a tendency to jump out of your eye (at least my old brand did, this one seems to fit better), which leads to being near blind in one eye until you can find it, re-wet it, and stick it in.

Well, why not look at it the other way around? I don't particularly care if a woman is wearing glasses or not; in fact, I think a well-selected pair of glasses can enhance the beauty of a woman's (and consequently man's, although I'm not one to judge this) face. Then again, you may not want to pay my opinion too much mind since I'm really weird and probably lucky to not have any fetishes that would put me in jail where I would have to develop a whole new outlook on sexuality.

... I think this conversation took a turn somewhere.

Like Meister, I am extremely nervous about anything getting too close to my eye (even eye drops, or mascara), so I'm not a contacts person, but I do know quite a few people who have them.

Pros: No glasses to deal with, they cost less per pair than glasses do, (but on that note, you have to buy a lot more contacts whereas with glasses you get to just keep one pair) They're better for any kind of stage performance if you perform (I can't count the number of times I've had to go dance on stage without my glasses) And you don't need to worry about whipping them off of your head when you turn a lot or do physical activity.

Cons: If you have very sensitive eyes they can leave your eyes all red and itchy all the time, you have to be careful about leaving them in for too long nad/or falling asleep with them in.

And in the defence of Glasses, like Meister said, the right chosen pair could inhance how you look, just like any kind of accessory. It just depends on your "look". Some people look better with glasses, some people don't.

While I myself do not wear contacts, it's not because I'm afraid of stuff near my eyes or any such gobbledegoogeddyscoobbitydobbity.

I just look really good in glassess. Which is a gift. Like Meister, I have (what I believe are) Emo glasses (otherwise, they're Buddy Holly Glasses) and chicks love them!

And to prove this factoid:

Actually, if you're like me (and apparently krylo) through ignorance and just laziness, a year's worth of contacts can last twice as long, maybe more. See, each pair SHOULD only be worn about two weeks, but they can EASILY be worn for about a month. I usually only rotate pairs when I lose one.

And falling asleep is just a myth. I always doze off with them in and my eyes are still good.

I think for the truly contacts scary, just tell people this

A month? I'm going on three with my current pair. They still aren't irritating me!

And yah, I fall asleep with them in all the time. No biggie.