Wearing the wrong decorative contact lenses can result in allergic reactions, infection, damage to your eyeball, vision problems, and even blindness.<\/b>
\nYour eyeballs aren\u2019t your butt. Normally, you don\u2019t sit on your eyeballs or slap your eyeballs while asking, \u201cwant some of this?\u201d Similarly, wearing Halloween costume contact lenses isn\u2019t the same as wearing a pair of Halloween costume pants. While wearing the wrong pants can make it harder to twerk or could crack open some issues, so to speak, it shouldn\u2019t affect your eyesight. Meanwhile, wearing the wrong contact lenses can put your oh-so-valuable eyeballs at risk. It can result in allergic reactions, infection, damage to your eyeball, vision problems, and even blindness. And few people will say, \u201cit was a great Halloween. Oh, except for the whole blindness thing that happened.\u201d Moreover, when your eyeball gets damaged, you can\u2019t simply ask a talking racoon to give you a spare replacement, as Rocket did to Thor in the movie Avengers: Rocket Gives Thor An Eyeball. That\u2019s why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a special web page for \u201c Decorative Contact Lenses for Halloween and More \u201d and not a similar one for pants. The guidance is for any contact lenses designed to change the look of your eyes such as when you want to look more like a cat, a vampire, or your favorite January 6 insurrectionist. Such contact lenses may go by many different names including Halloween, fashion, colored, cosmetic, or theater contact lenses. Such lenses aren\u2019t necessarily specific to Halloween, although showing up to your job interview or first date with demon eyes is probably not a great idea. These types of lenses may be purely decorative or cosmetic and not correct your vision in any way. Regardless, you should still treat such lenses as you would corrective contact lenses. Just because something seems completely for fashion doesn\u2019t mean that it won\u2019t have medical implications. On their web page, the FDA offers the following six \u201cdo\u2019s and don\u2019ts\u201d for such decorative contact lenses: Of course, consider the alternative: not wearing decorative contact lenses. Sure decorative contact lenses may make you look interesting or even cool. In the end, though, is it really worth the potential and risk just to look better on Instagram or at that costume party? Remember looks and appearance are only skin deep and shouldn\u2019t be eyeball deep.<\/p>\n