Few things are expressive as your eyes and if you'd like to give them a different color, colored contacts for dark eyes are the quick and easy way. Even people who don't need vision correction can wear colored contact lens. With today's lenses geared toward comfort and ease of use, virtually anyone can get and wear colored contacts for dark eyes.

The part of your eyes that provides their color, the iris, is what colored contacts for dark eyes are designed to cover. The colored lenses are like regular contacts and come with or without vision correction. The only difference is that colored lenses have a circular band of dye embedded in them.

Because the dye in colored contacts for dark eyes isn't transparent, the center of the lens, over the pupil is left clear. And the fact that the colored portion of the lens is opaque, means that it's important to have the lens fit properly. Because if it doesn't, the ring of color might overlap part of your pupil and obscure your vision.

Colored contacts for dark eyes are made of the same materials as clear contacts and so get treated the same way. The most convenient lenses are disposables and frequent replacement lenses. The disposable contacts eliminate the need to clean them because they're only used once. But most disposables can be treated like a regular lens and taken out at night and cleaned, for up to two weeks.

Frequent replacement lenses are designed to be replaced every couple of weeks to several months. The main advantage to frequent replacement and disposable lenses is that because they're worn for a shorter time than a conventional lens, they have less of a chance to accumulate harmful deposits. So if you choose this type of colored contacts for dark eyes, they won't be as hard to keep clean.