Flex Wear Radiance 2: Sea Blue

Brand: Flex Wear
Series: Radiance 2
Color: Sea Blue
Diameter: 14.0 mm

These lenses were purchased from the Philippines. Somewhere in Metro Manila, not sure exactly where and what store but I think it would be somewhere in Alabang Town Center. I heard it is pretty cheap, cheaper than my old Freshlook contacts. I might guess for them to be around 600 PHP. I've been told that they originate from Korea and are a Korean brand but I'm not sure. I've tried looking them up but there isn't really much information on them.

They are branded as just normal colored lenses but they look larger than my old Freshlook contacts despite both having the same diameter. When compared, the colored part of these contacts extend out to the edge and have a dark black ring on the outside while the Freshlook contacts have a clear ring on the outside and the colored part is not as large.

Pros: Larger colored area so it does have a bit of an enlarging effect, though small. Remember my parents don't know I use circle lenses so the fact that they bought this for me means I don't have to hide this from them. They are very comfortable and I can wear them for a full day. Also, these last for six months.

Cons: It's not a very bright blue. It's actually quite dark so the blue isn't really that noticeable. I mean, the point of getting colored contacts, in my opinion, is to make them noticeable.

All in all I still like them. Plus, I'm not the one that buys them so I shouldn't really complain. It kind of reminds me of the Neo Vision Queen Blue from their Queen 4 tone series.

Freshlook Contacts

Freshlook contacts are my old colored contacts. I don't have them anymore. I forget how long they are supposed to last but I'd say no more than three months of continuous wear. They are pretty comfortable though. Sometimes I forget I have them in and accidentally fall asleep, then wake up in the middle of the night confused because I can see clearly. The longest I've worn them is three days straight. By the way, you shouldn't do that. Don't follow my example. That's a terrible thing to do to your eyes. But if it does ever happen, they stayed in quite comfortable in those three days.

So I had a total of four colors of these contacts. These were the ones my mom bought me from the Philippines. They were pretty cheap, in my opinion.

These are the gray ones. I really like these. I wore them almost all the time.

These are the green ones. Oddly enough, these weren't my favorite even though my favorite color is green. They just don't look as good as I had hoped. Green eyes aren't really my thing anyway.

Hazel...

Yeah, I didn't really like these ones. They were basically a light brown. They did look kind of yellowish in the sunlight. But yeah, I have no photos whatsoever of me wearing this color. I guess I didn't like it that much.

These were my favorite. The color is sapphire blue and I picked them out myself. They were awesome. As you can see, the colored part is pretty small. You can kind of see my iris peeking out on the edges.

That's it for my colored contacts from the past. I still keep colored contacts because I wear them when I'm at home. I don't want my parents knowing I have circle lenses (I'm such a rebel). I'm sure my mother would not approve at all.

Obsessed: Contacts edition

I've wanted blue eyes probably since I was a toddler. My favorite barbie was always the light skinned one with the platinum blonde hair and blue eyes (no way in hell was I gonna accept a brunette barbie). I've always admired colored eyes. As a child, seeing those American movie stars with different colored hair and eyes were so cool. It was boring in the Philippines. Everyone had black hair and brown eyes. Even seeing a halfer was special (although parents should beware that your halfer or Caucasian child has a high chance of getting kidnapped, just saying). I always loved blue eyes and blue used to be my favorite color. Obviously things have changed...

Anyway, I first got contacts when I was in middle school, seventh grade. I hated glasses and after being hit with a soccer ball in the face during soccer practice while wearing glasses, I was done with them. I remember I begged my parents for colored contacts. My mother was always against it because she said I would look ridiculous (she still says that). For many years I went through life that way, pretty unsatisfied with my boring brown eyes. It's not even a nice light brown like my mother has. It's the dark brown kind that looks almost black. That is definitely nothing special.

Anyway, when I got into college ( I swear, I don't know why but everything happens in college), my mother actually agreed to buying me some colored contacts! Must have been my years of nagging and begging that annoyed her into finally agreeing. So she got me a pair of gray, green, and hazel contacts. I loved all of them, gray the most and hazel the least. My mother didn't like any of them and she said I looked like a freak (such loving words). When I wore the hazel ones, she said I looked scary and looked like a vampire. Still, I wanted blue ones. She got every other color except for the one I specifically asked for: blue. I got the blue ones eventually. They are currently my favorite colored contacts.

Anyway, I wore those colored contacts all the time. I barely wore the clear ones anymore. In my perspective, I just don't look as good without them. With them, I feel pretty. Without them, I feel boring and forgettable. Yes, I know I'm all insecure and I shouldn't have to rely on such things to make myself feel pretty and whatnot. I'm working on that part. But I'm young still, it's kind of the norm at the moment. I'm sure I'll reach that whole self-acceptance phase in my later years.

Then (as expected, this happens in college), I got introduced to circle lenses. Part of this has to do with Sandy because she is pretty much my only friend who wears circle lenses ( I don't mean that in a bad way!). But her input helped. I asked her a bunch of noob questions probably before I got them. After I got my first circle lenses and tried them on, I was addicted. Probably bad but I wore them like they were normal lenses. And of course, the addiction continues...