What brand should I choose?
First of all: If this is your first time buying/using colored contact lenses you should go to an optician or an eye care clinic. They will take a look at your eyes and make sure you can wear contacts (95% of all healthy persons can wear contacts). They will measure your eyes and possible need of visual correction to find out what parameters the contacts that fits you should have. Ask the doctor/optician for a written prescription containing these parameters, and you are ready to order your color contacts online!
If you are already using contacts: Look at your last contact lens box, or at the plastic packaging that the lenses are contained in. Written on these you will find the brand and model, as well as the other important parameters (see below) of the contacts that fit you.
You do not have to reorder the same brand or model, but the data listed below must be the same:
- Power is between -20.00 and +20.00. A plus sign in front means farsightedness and a minus sign in front means nearsightedness. Important that you order the correct power!
- BC (Basecurve) is a number between 8,4 and 9,3 and specifies the flatness of the lens. Very important to choose the right since the lenses will easily slide out of place with the wrong basecurve.
- Dia (Diameter) tells you how large the lens is. Normally between 14,0 and 14,4. Sometimes you don't specify the diameter because some contact lenses only comes in one size.