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Daily Coloured Contact Lenses

Daily coloured contact lenses combine a colour change with a wear-once schedule, so you open a fresh tinted lens every day instead of cleaning and storing a reusable one. The two main lines in this category, 1-Day Acuvue Define and FreshLook One-Day, use different approaches to colour, one built around subtle enhancement and one built around a fuller opaque tint. Picking between them comes down to how strong a colour change you want and what your prescription allows.

Because these are daily lenses, they also remove the deposit buildup that coloured lenses can pick up from tears and makeup over a longer wear cycle. This makes daily coloured lenses a common choice for wearers who want colour without an added cleaning routine. Your eye doctor can confirm which style and prescription range fits you before you order.

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Air Optix Colors
by Alcon
17 reviews
FreshLook ColorBlends
by Alcon
29 reviews
1-Day Acuvue Define
by Johnson & Johnson
7 reviews
FreshLook One-Day
by Alcon
3 reviews

Two Approaches to Daily Colour

1-Day Acuvue Define uses an iris-enhancing design, meant to brighten or add depth to your natural eye colour rather than replace it. FreshLook One-Day uses a fuller opaque tint, which covers your natural iris colour and works for a bigger colour change, including on darker eyes. Both lenses enclose their pigment inside the lens material, so it does not sit in direct contact with your eye. The difference mainly comes down to how much of your natural colour still shows through.

Matching a Daily Coloured Lens to Your Eyes

Lighter natural eyes show a wider range of shades clearly, including subtle enhancement tints. Darker eyes need a stronger, more opaque tint to show a visible change, which points more toward FreshLook One-Day than a lighter enhancement lens. Your prescription range also narrows the choice, since 1-Day Acuvue Define only covers myopia, while FreshLook One-Day covers a broader range of powers, including plano lenses with no vision correction.

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FAQs About Daily Coloured Contact Lenses

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