Now-a-days the trend has changed. To be Ulzzang Girl young teens, girls buy various products such as fake eyelashes, circle lens, for eyes “contacts”, makeup, foundations, eyelid tape, and etc. Are Circle Contact Lenses safe to use? Check out Circle Contact Lenses Before and After Pics and details in this article.
Circle contact lens is also known as a big eye contact lens. These contact lenses are normally used to give a larger appearance to the eyes. Circle Contact lens makes the eye’s iris appear larger. This Contact Lenses product was initially invented in South Korea. Use of this contact lens is creating the Ulzzang look, which is characterized by large eyes, small noses and fair skin. Ulzzang means best face in Korean.
Celebrities have always been able to start fashion trends. Now Circle contact lenses are being a fashion trend from the last months, particularly after Lady Gaga’s recent music video “Bad romance” wherein she appears to have wider than normal eyes in the Ulzzang girls look. In this video she has worn a Circle contacts Lens.
What are Circle Contact Lenses?
Circle Contact Lenses are colored contact lenses that not only available in 'normal' eye colors, but these are mostly available in pink and violet colors. These lenses cover your natural iris and part of the white of your eye and can make the user appear like an anime character.
Circle contacts lens have the color covering a majority of the contact, causing the color to go beyond the iris and manipulating the ratio between the iris and the eye, thus the appearance of a larger iris. The lens is available in a variety of colors, and effects. The diameter of the lens is on average 14 mm (more than 2 mm longer than the average iris diameter).
The range of lenses includes from natural-looking colors to special effects. Common brands are Bescon, Dueba, Geo, Neo, and Luxury Vision.
Are Circle Lenses Safe?
The New York Times stated that it is illegal to sell any contact lens in the United States without a prescription, but a quick online search reveals hundreds of sites where you can buy them, with some even in prescription strengths. In the U.S their popularity is growing, especially after Lady Gaga wore them in her video. If you treat with care circle lenses are safe.
FDA is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. FDA has released warnings that wearing these lenses can cause risk to your eyes and even blindness. Circle Lenses are administered without the aid of an eye professional so when customers choose these lenses and put them in themselves that time these are being risky which can also damage to eye health. These contacts lenses have not been well fitted to your eye they can divest your eye of oxygen and cause vision problems down the road. Optometrists say do not uses circle lenses, but some girls opposes for just the allure of big wide eyes.
For proper care of your Circle Lenses follow the below steps:
- Before using contact lenses you seek professional advice.
- Store them in multi-purpose solution for about 2-4 hours before using your lenses.
- Before touching your lenses always wash, rinse and dry hands.
- To handle the lens use your fingertips that time avoid using finger nails or sharp object and keeping your fingernails short.
- To wash your lenses or contact lens case never uses tap water or saliva.
- When you remove your lenses from your eye, you must clean, rinse and disinfect them as this can cause discomfort.
- Place your lenses in before applying make-up.
- At the interval specified replace your lenses.
- When you are swimming, sleeping, or doing any other activities that may contact your eyes that time not wear lenses.
These circle contact lenses are mostly employed in Asia. Gaga most likely took the look from anime cartoons, which has encouraged this dangerous trend of special circle contact lenses which are illegal in the U.S.
The sell of Contact Lenses is illegal; there is hardly any regulation to make sure the lenses are made safely and properly. The FDA (s) has not permitted the lens, which can be set up on the Internet for $20 along with a video on YouTube with makeup artist Michelle Phan, who gives step-by-step instructions for usage and this video has over 9.5 million hits.
The Circle contact lenses are found in the USA with prices ranging from $20 to $30. But the FDA has stated that these lenses can bring health risk when ones using them:
Spokeswoman of the FDA, Karen Riley said, “Consumers risk significant eye injuries, even blindness, when they buy contact lenses without a valid prescription or help from an eye professional.”
The FDA advises:
- Get an eye exam from a licensed eye care professional, even if you feel your vision is perfect.
- Get a valid prescription that includes the brand and lens dimensions.
- Buy the lenses from an eye care professional or from a vendor who requires that you provide prescription information for the lenses.
- Follow directions for cleaning, disinfecting, and wearing the lenses, and visit your eye care professional for follow-up eye exams.
Founder of Asian pop fan site Soompi.com with a forum devoted to circle lenses, Joyce Kim said, “In the past year, there’s been a sharp increase in interest here in the U.S. Once early adopters have adequately posted about it, discussed it and reviewed them, it’s now available to everyone.”
Video of Ulzzang Before and After - With and Without Make Up from Youtube:
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