How to Open the Upper Eyelid for Lens Wear

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Elton Hall and I'm from Texas State Optical in Austin, Texas. I’m here on behalf of Expert Village, and I'm going to show you how to insert and remove contact lenses. The third step is learning how to open your eyelids up as much as possible, so you can get as much room as possible actually. If you are right handed, you can do it with the right hand or left hand, which ever you want to do. I use my middle fingers to hold my eyelids open. The top eyelid, you should pull it all the way back just like this. Make sure that you get as much of the eyelashes out of the way as possible. If you have problems with that you can actually just start from the inside of the eye and kind of work your way over so you can hold your eyelids. A lot of people do not have long eyelashes as I do, but you'll be just like that."