If you've never liked the look of your eyes or are simply curious about your appearance with a different eye color, you can accomplish it with color eye contacts. The amount of change is up to you, from subtle accents to a totally new color. And it doesn't matter if your vision is already 20/20, you can get color eye contacts without vision correction.

Color eye contacts made altering your eye color possible and soft lenses made it popular to do so. Soft contacts are also called hydrogels because they're very water absorbent. In fact most soft contact lenses are more than 50% water. The water makes the lens flexible and lets them conform to the shape of your eye for a comfortable fit.

If you want to keep your natural eye color but make it better, you can get enhancement tinted color eye contacts. Enhancement lenses have a light semi-transparent tinting which complements your eye color. And even though the tinting covers the entire lens, it's transparent to your eye and so your sight isn't affected. Because the amount of tinting is slight, enhancement lenses are usually only for light color eyes.

If you want to have a new eye color, there are opaque color eye contacts. The tinting is a non-transparent ring that surrounds a clear center positioned over your pupil. The lens is made to completely cover the colored part of your eye, the iris. Like enhancement tinted lenses, the tinting dye is contained within the lens, so there's no health concerns.

Because of the popularity of color contacts, especially among young people, it's important to remember that any contact lens is a medical product. And even if vision correction isn't required, a prescription is. An eye exam is necessary for a proper fitting lens, getting recommendations for suitable lenses and checking your eyes' health. And because of possible infection, it's a bad idea to share color eye contacts with a friend.