The Contacts vs. Glasses Review/Guide: Pros, Cons, Care, and Misc.

The Contacts vs. Glasses Review/Guide:

Pros, Cons, Care, and Misc.

To be brief, I'll just say this.

This post is going to be a review/guide with my own experiences.
If you're here only to read which is better, this isn't the post for you.
There's always a convenient 'x' on either the left or right side of your browser :)

Both are great if you can use them, and I definitely do recommend both or either one of them.

(Then again, not like you have a choice either way)

But both serve different purposes, and both have their pros, and cons.

In this post, I'll also include how to keep care of either of them, and safety issues and more.

I do hope you guys stay safe with these.

Your eyes are important, and they're delicate.

If you screw them up, you're literally screwed probably for life.

Let's get going!

-hugs and smiles-

Bunneh ♥

Bunneh's Eye History

For me, I got my first glasses 8 years ago.

I started messing around with colored contacts about 3-4 years ago, but I was really more of a collector rather than a user of them at the time.

I used contacts occasionally but I didn't really have long-term contacts.

Finally this year was really when I began to use long-term contact lenses.

My eyes are typically moist, without contacts or with contacts.

They once in a while get slightly dry, but otherwise my eyes are always moist.

I never use eye drops.

I should mention I have astigmatism.

Contacts

What they are: Lens you place on your eye

What Bunneh likes: No need to worry about glasses breaking or falling off your face!

Pros:

You can look anywhere and not lose sight of anything (like if you look up with glasses, its blurry)

Easy to put in (once you get the hang of it)

Typically comfortable or un-noticable

Can completely change your appearance

No need to have metal on your face

Less acne due to the frames of glasses

Easier to apply make-up with

Cons:

Can dry your eyes out

Can infect the eye if not taken care well of

Pain to take care of and watch over

Have to be careful with keeping care of them

Takes a good 3-5 minutes of your time to put them in, and again to take them out

Chance of infection is higher

 Left to right in order from  left to right.

I am currently using Air Optix for Astigmatism from Ciba Vision which came in a 6 month supply for left eye and right eye.
These are soft lens, not hard, so they can breathe.

Air Optix for Astigmatism and case

You can even sleep in these lens in case you were so tired you just fell asleep right after school or work.
I have a bad habit of forgetting to take them out for days (don't do that... just saying.) because of that.
They're prescription so head over to your local optometrist and get your eye exam done!

Taking care of contacts

Well this one should seem easy to cover.

But its the one that many people don't follow, causing injuries, infections, etc.

I have to admit, I'm no angel either.

I break plenty of rules I should be doing with my contacts!

As long as you do at least the basics, you should be fine.

When you have contacts, you're going to need to clean them before you put them in your eyes, and after you take them out.

Do not use water with your contacts, ever!

Water has minerals and all sorts of things that will damage the contacts and can become a place where bacteria can easily grow and breed.

It should be obvious to never use saliva on your contacts, for heavens sake, it came from YOUR MOUTH, it's DISGUSTING AND UNHYGIENIC.

No, what you should use is solution made for contacts.

I personally have used 3 different solutions:

- Aquify Multi-Purpose Solution

- renu Fresh Multi-Purpose Solution

- Bio-True Multi-Purpose Solution

Out of those three, I personally found the Aquify more gentle with my eyes.

With renu it was not as gentle as Aquify was.

Bio-True is just an okay solution, it's not great but not bad.

 Self cleaner vial

Since we covered solutions, cases!

There are many types of cases.

There are the typical cases where you clean them out, fill them with solution, clean your own contacts, and all that other good stuff.

But there are other ways to store your contacts.

New technology lets vials/containers/cases clean your contacts for you by just popping your contacts into the case and then they just clean it for you! :)

I have a self cleaner one, which you can see at the left.

Though I like to use the normal typical cases still.

As with most contacts, what you would first do to handle contacts is wash your hands in warm/hot water and soap.

Make sure there is nothing on your hands that can get on your contacts.

Never put in contacts with unclean hands.

There is then an extremely high chance of infection.

Put your contact in your non-dominant hand and get 2-3 drops of solution on it.

(This is in the palm of your hands)

With a finger, lightly clean the lenses, making sure there is nothing on it (e.g fabric, icky eye build ups, etc), and rub them lightly.

Finally you can put them in.

It's okay to have them inside out, but it can sting or hurt.

When they are the correct way, it'll look like a perfect bowl, not lop-sided.

Repeat on the other eye.

Clean your case after use of contacts with sterile solutions or wash with really hot water and just air dry it.

Ask your doctor about how long you should have your contacts in.

Contacts typically range from under 8 hours and above.

It really depends on the lenses.

You might get lenses that you can sleep in (like I do) or you might just have typical lenses which you can't do that with... (and please don't.)

When you finally are ready to take your contacts out, wash your hands with warm water and soap again like earlier.

Like previously, put your contact in the non-dominant hand and put 2-3 drops of solution on it and rub, cleaning away proteins and other icky stuff from it.

Put the cleaned contacts in the correct side of the clean case.

Fill the case with solution and cap it off.

Repeat to the other eye/lens.

Misc.

Contacts are becoming more and more popular and more common these days.

The cost of contacts is lowering and its availability now is also a trend around many places around the world.

Colored contacts are available online for low prices, and it is opening up eyes around the world.

Personally, I love circle lens because they enlarge the eye and enhance it.

But that's just me, go around and experiment!

(Just make sure to read the reviews and make sure the sites are actually real)

For circle lens, I currently ordered from honeycolor.com personally.

I'm waiting to get mine in the mail now!

(And no, that is not a sponsored message =__=)

Glasses

What they are: Frames that hold (prescription) lenses

What Bunneh likes: Different styles, different shapes, etc!

Pros:

You can get pretty much any design you want out there (considering your budget)

Comes and goes with fashion trends

Can change how you look (good or bad)

Easy to put on

Is in trend currently

Can be considered "cute" or "sexy"

Any age group can easily use glasses.. well.. besides babies.

Cons:

No clear vision where the lens end (e.g looking up, sideways, etc)

Can break easily

Wrong frames can make you look like.... well you know....

Can enlarge parts of the face you did not want to enlarge (e.g nose, sharp cheekbones, etc)

Can look funny (e.g make eyes look abnormally huge, etc)

Gets in the way of sports

Glasses!

For the past... oh what is it now...

Nearly 3 years now, I've been using KLiink Denmark glasses.

I'm not sure what number/letters I should be looking at to identify the glasses I'm wearing though...

They're rectangle framed, dark black/olive color on the outside of the frame and green on the inside.

There's also this interesting metal twist on the outside of the frames as you can see in the first picture I provided.

Uhh yup.

Moving on.....

Taking care of glasses

Out of the two, glasses are by far the easiest to take care of.

The downside is if you make the fatal mistake of snapping/breaking them, you're screwed.

Really all you have to do with them is clean the lenses (I always lost the lenses fabric cleaner thing, so I used whatever shirt I was wearing...) and just make sure to clean off oils from your face.

You don't want to have a line of pimples around the area your glasses touch your face.

Just store them carefully in the case (most glasses come with a case) and you should be just fine.

That's really all there is to it really....

OH I should mention, be careful too.

If you're doing sports, you can easily get your glasses broken or get poked in the eye.

It hurts, trust me.

Misc.

Fail attempt at trying to look scene for a friend of mine.......

.... Awkward.. not cute....

Before, glasses used to be unpopular and used as a way to tease another person.

Those days are gone, or mostly gone at least.

Seriously, glasses are making a come back and they are seeeeexy on the runway.

Or really adorable/cute.
(Though they look terrible on me lol....)

There are so many frames you can choose from, and it's a long term deal.

Way longer than contacts.

To be honest, when I'm too lazy to have contacts in, I'll just go around the house in just a ponytail and glasses, it's extremely comfortable.

Well I hope this review/guide helped you guys in some shape or form, and questions, feel free to ask!