About Special Effects Contact Lenses In Filmmaking
Even people who don’t need a contact lens prescription are looking into soft contact lenses for reasons beyond mere practicality. Some people want custom contacts in cat-like eyes or glowing red eyes to show their personality. Sports fans may choose their team’s emblem to be emblazoned across their eyes. Others still, choose a more insidious effect to actually make their irises look diseased, drugged or damaged for their movie roles. While these special effects contact lenses look outrageous to passersby, the wearer won’t notice anything different! Even if people have never worn contacts before, they’ll find that the soft lenses sit on the eyes almost imperceptibly. Within minutes, they forget they are even there!
Examples of stars wearing special effect lenses are plentiful. For example, in The Good Shepherd, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon and Robert De Niro all wore crazy lenses to make their eyes appear aged or diseased. Quentin Tarantino was made to look blind in Little Nicky. In Days of Thunder, Tom Cruise wore special effects lenses to show bloody, hemorrhaged or tired eyes. In I Am Legend, creatures had animalistic eyes, infected eyes and bloody eyes. Street magician David Blaine used contacts for his diamond-coming-out-of-the-eyes trick. And who could forget Alec Baldwin’s striking mirrored eyes in The Shadow? Brad Pitt, Robert Duvall, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Malkovich and Charlize Theron have all drastically changed the color of their eyes for movies.
The internet has many sources for special effects contact lenses. You can get the same eyes used in The Crow, Predator, Hellraiser, Lord of the Rings, Lost Boys, Interview With A Vampire or Starwars at 9MMSFX.com. You can also find neat glow-in-the-dark contacts for just $89 here. FXEyes.com has dragons, Sith lords, wolverines, vampires, goblins, zombies and any other kind of mutant you can imagine. CustomContacts.com specializes in professional caliber aged, hemorrhaged or diseased eyes, but also offers a variety of monster eyes too. For a party, you can choose to have novelty contacts in the form of a white eye, red eye, spirals, jaguar, or zebra prints, all available at WildContacts.com for $99.
It is important to understand that special effects contact lenses, while fun, are certainly not like other costume accessories. They are still medical appliances attached to your body. They require the utmost in lens care, as they must be changed daily, rewetted with solution as needed and never worn overnight or in the shower. In some extreme cases, diseases have occurred from water getting trapped in the contact and overnight wear has caused contacts to fuse to the back of one’s eyeball. As horrific as that sounds, the general everyday wearer who exercises pragmatism will have no trouble wearing their wild eyes in safety.
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