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Summary: Colored contact lenses are available in the same types as clear contact lenses. Try colored contact lenses with tips from an optics specialist in this free eye care video.
Stefan Czelusta is the office manager at Texas State Optical in Austin, Texas. He has worked in optics for more than nine years. Czelusta helps customers choose glasses, contacts and...read more
"What kind of frequency are these colored contact lenses offered in? They're offered in basically every frequency that your regular clear contact lenses are offered in. There, in some choices the color options are, they're limited. You have one day disposables. They offer about four colors in those. So you throw those away everyday, but they do offer the color lenses in that possibility. The two week disposable again, the most common, that's what most people are interested in, that's also where you'll find the most choices in the two week disposable and there's probably quite a few companies that offer you know, colored contacts in that, in that frequency. There are monthly contact lenses, just one brand that comes to mind that offers the monthly contact lenses. So that's probably the most limited, is the monthly colored contact lenses. And, then finally, you do have some that are offered in the yearly contact lenses, you wear them again twelve to eighteen months. Colored contacts, they come in a vial and they seemingly have a pretty good selection of those, even though they are significantly more expensive, than your two week disposables."
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