Choosing Your Perfect Cosplay Lenses

When choosing coloured contact lenses, you must take into consideration several attributes that may affect the final result and your experience whilst wearing them. If you are choosing a particular design for a cosplay look, a contact lens that compliments both your own and your character's features can elevate and transform your appearance even more. In the anime world, there are plenty of different characters to recreate that are perfect for a cosplay convention or party; take your time when choosing your character to ensure your recreation of them will provide a dramatic and realistic result. 

Where to buy your contact lenses

Contact lenses can be purchased from a wide variety of different retailers and small businesses, many of which are beautifully unusual and provide a sense of intrigue for most who admire them. However, their pretty design doesn’t always promise a safe and comfortable experience. When shopping for contact lenses, it is best to purchase through trusted sellers that have all of the correct certifications and meet the essential standards for safe wear.

Funky Lenses is an FDA-approved brand. Our brand sells a wide selection of different contact lenses that have each been designed and manufactured to strict quality standards with safety checks throughout the whole process. Using a lightweight and breathable material, our lenses are flexible to work with the shape of your eye. The thin material also allows oxygen to easily pass through the lens to reach the eye; this keeps the eye moist and well-hydrated.

Consider your eye colour

When it comes to choosing your contact lenses, it’s important to consider the type of coverage you will require. Do you wish to completely change your natural eye colour or just enhance its tone? Maybe you opt for an unusual costume lens that transforms the colour and look of your eye, either way, the coverage varies between different lens types. 

If you have fairly light-coloured eyes such as pale blue, you’ll probably find that covering or enhancing your natural eye colour isn’t too difficult. The minimal pigment within the natural iris allows the colour of the eye contact lenses to become more dominant and cover the natural hue of the eye. On the other hand, if you have quite dark natural iris’ it can be more difficult to cover this colour. It is still possible to cover your natural dark brown eye colour, however, you will require a less transparent lens; for a natural effect try lenses such as the Dolly Blue Natural Coloured Lenses from Funky Lenses. If you require an exaggerated change for your eye, there are many different costume lenses at Funky Lenses to try: Mini Sclera, Cat Eye, Manson, and many more.

Your duration type 

Contact lenses can be purchased in a range of different duration types. This can be a very helpful attribute depending on the longevity needed from your new accessories. At Funky Lenses we stock both daily contact lenses and 30 day contact lenses. When choosing the correct duration you must consider how often you will be wearing your lenses, whether you are prepared to maintain your lenses and whether it is a cost-effective option for you. 

Our daily disposable contacts, also known as single-use lenses, are the perfect option for someone who requires only one night or day from their lenses. Designed to be worn for a maximum of 8 consecutive hours only, the daily lenses should be disposed of immediately after removal. These contacts make a great option for someone who doesn’t want to deal with cleaning or maintaining their lenses in between uses, however, the one-day contacts should be soaked in a multipurpose lens solution for at least 2 hours before inserting. 

Multi-day contact lenses, specifically 30 day contact lenses at Funky Lenses, are designed to be reused within 30 days. If you are a dedicated cosplayer and find yourself attending several shows and conventions within the month, try a pair of 30 day contact lenses and make the most of them! Cosplayers will find that the multi-day lenses are a much more cost-effective way of buying their lenses, however, they do require a little TLC to remain safe for use. These extended-wear contacts should be rinsed and cleaned with a multipurpose sterile solution after every wear; once clean, they should be stored and soaked in fresh sterile solution within a tightly-sealed contact lens case until their next wear.

Your Environment

If you are planning to attend an event whilst wearing your new contact lenses, there are a handful that we suggest considering carefully depending on what you are doing. Within the Funky Lenses costume range, we stock an exciting selection of special effects contact lenses that come with their extreme attributes. Available in a range of different colours, the blind contact lenses are a great option for any character cosplay that yields a terrifying power or has returned from the dead, however, they don’t provide vision as expected. For these lenses to provide a truly horrifying result, they completely cover both the natural iris and pupil. This means that the user is not able to see out of the lenses and quite literally makes them “blind”. Due to their vision limitations, blind lenses are not the best option to wear at parties and conventions and are better suited to fashion shoots and at-home SFX makeup creation. 

You will also find UV contact lenses in our collection; reactive under UV black light, these contact lenses will glow vibrantly in the correct environment. Who doesn’t want to experience glowing eyes at their next party? Well, with Funky Lenses you can but remember these aren’t glow-in-the-dark lenses. Sometimes there can be some confusion with UV-reactive contacts and glowing-in-the-dark lenses; our UV-glowing lenses require a specialised black light to glow and will not create a glowing effect when in darkness. So if you’re planning vibrantly glowing eyes at your next event, be sure to check that the correct lighting will be at the venue!

Now that you are aware of the essentials when choosing the perfect lens for your cosplay look, are you ready to start shopping? With so many different options, there’s no doubt that you will find everything that you need to bring your character to life through your eyes. Don't forget to check out our Cases & Solution range too so that you are prepared to keep your lenses clean and hygienic!