Contact Lenses
Daily Disposables
- Daily replacement can cost as little as a coffee per day
- For convenience and comfort
- Occasional wear : sports/vacation
- For customers who want to wear their lenses intensively without feeling them and without compromising on comfort and health
- Ideal for people with allergies
- Available in transitions, helping to mitigate light sensitivity frequently experienced by contact lens wearers
- A soft contact lens
Fortnightly Lenses
- For people with busy agendas and work environments that demand a lot from your eyes such as working with digital screens
- Great wearing comfort
- Supports a stable tear film
- Wear for 14 days, clean every day and store in lens case at night
- A soft contact lens
Monthly Lenses
- Optimal Wearing comfort
- Replace monthly
- A soft contact lens
- Clean every day and store in lens case at night – maintenance is important
Multi-focal Lenses
- Soft, hard and now in daily lenses
- No visible transitions
- Reading and distant vision without glasses
- Requires daily cleaning and storage in lens case
- Good distant view, in between area and nearby
- Comfortable all day long
Coloured Contact Lenses
- Clean every day and store in lens case at night
- Optimal oxygen permeability
- Perfect fit
- Replace monthly or every 3 months
- Stable vision
- All strengths possible
- A soft contact lens
Cleaning & Care
Proper contact lens care is vital for your comfort and ongoing eye health. The following are some suggestions your optometrist is likely to recommend.
- Wash, rinse, and dry hands thoroughly before handling contact lenses.
- Use soap that is free of oils, lotions, or perfumes.
- Dry hands with a lint-free towel.
- Use fingertips to handle contact lens (not fingernails or sharp objects like tweezers).
Check to ensure the contact lens is moist, clean, and damage free before attempting to insert in your eye. Never put a damaged contact lens in your eye.
DO
- Replace your lenses as per the manufacturer specifications.
- Rinse out your lens case after each use with fresh contact lens cleaning solution and allow to air dry.
- If your eyes become red, irritated, or your vision changes, remove your lenses immediately and seek medical attention.
- Insert your lenses prior to applying make-up.
DON’T
- Re-use cleaning solution
- Use tap water, saliva or any other liquid to moisturise or clean your lenses, use only recommended eyedrops or contact lens cleaning solution.
- Change cleaning or comfort drop brand and type unless prescribed.
- Sleep in your lenses unless prescribed.
Why wear contact lenses?
Why not, as a complimentary vision solution to glasses, contact lenses offer freedom from many of the challenges associated with wearing glasses.
Who can wear contact lenses?
Just about anyone. In the last few years the technology in contact lenses has bounded forwards in comfort and function. Even if you just need reading glasses, contact lenses can work for you. Additionally, the myth that you can’t wear contacts if you have astigmatism is now truly a myth.
Costing less than one coffee a day contact lenses are an affordable alternative to glasses even for youth sports players on the weekend.
It’s important to appreciate that contact lenses may not be able to achieve the same high performance of spectacle lenses, and this depends on your eyewear prescription. So do discuss contact lenses with one of our optical professionals to fully understand what kind of lenses suit and fit your eyes and you.
