Eye color plays a crucial beauty enhancer and might also up the attractive quotient of a person by virtue of the shade. However, for people that don't have the much coveted icy gray or sea blue eye tone, getting colored contact lens of the required shade can help cure the issue effectively.

The first question that arises is whether these lenses look natural or not. If this is what is stopping you from going for colored contact lenses, then rest assured that the present contact lens making technologies as well as materials used to make them are specially designed to ensure that the lenses look very natural.

The contact lens companies focus on imitating the natural hues of the colored portion of the eyes. This particular area of the eye also comprises of colorful shapes and lines and keeping this in mind companies may also create tiny colored dots on the lens to make them look more natural. The part which lies over the pupil, however, is usually left transparent to enable vision clarity.

These lenses are available in four types of colorings- visibility tints, enhancement tints, opaque color tints and light-filtering tints.

Visibility tints add a green or blue hue to the first color of eyes and are used with corrective lenses to improve clarity of vision. Opaque color tints change the eye color completely, as an example from purple to blue. These coloured lenses nearly perfectly resemble your natural eye tints.

Enhancement tints make the color of your natural eyes deeper and are particularly helpful if you'd like to bring about a slight change in your appearance. Finally, light-filtering tints highlight certain colours by muting the others and are used by sports-persons and spectators.

There are the other costume lenses, which give abnormal colours to a user's eyes. These can provide you with the appearance of an animal or an alien. Such contact lenses are very popular at Halloween and fancy dress parties or with people who have got a strange fashion sense.

However, there are some disadvantages to wearing colored contact lens too. Though the lenses come in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit individual wants, the coloured portion may at times slide over the pupil, making it difficult to see. Also, the pupils change size according changing light sources and might not always stick to the size directions of the lens' clear center.

Many of these lenses are available in certain designs for people who have astigmatism and need bifocals. While choosing a colored contact lens, you must keep in mind that you should choose a color that suits with your skin tone, hair color, eyelashes and eyebrows.

If you want to enhance the way you look, these colored contact lenses can be a great idea.