Creating color lenses that would truly transform brown eyes into sky blue or emerald green is a very difficult task, but modern color contact lenses can do it. The trick is to select lenses that would work for you.

There are two types of color contacts - enhancement color contacts and opaque color lenses. Enhancers usually come in different shades of blue, green and gray and are designed to make your natural eye color look brighter. They are translucent and create a natural-looking effect. Unfortunately, enhancement color contacts work only for light eyes. Over brown eyes, enhancers would be either completely invisible or create only a very light tint that was not enough to change your color.

Opaque color contacts, on other side, are specially designed for brown eyes. As name suggests, they aren't transparent; only center of lens is clear, so you can still see. Opaque lenses aren't solid color, of course: they simulate natural pattern of a human eye. See comparison of color contacts for dark eyes.

However, not all opaque color contacts do a good job of recreating a natural pattern. Here, I will highlight brands that create a vivid, but natural-looking, effect.

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My wife has had 10 tumors removed from her breasts. The first two, in late 1980's, and last two (1 each breast each occurrence), about 1996-7, were benign. The six in between (four in right breast, two in left breast) were malignant. Although diagnosis of breast cancer is a devastating experience, most women face up to and cope well with it. In fact, studies show that many respond with renewed vigour and enjoyment of life and stronger interpersonal ties. But there is an inevitable period of adjustment, usually improved by knowing as much as possible about disease.

My wife has been “free of cancer” for well over 8 years, but at her last mammogram checkup, in Jan ‘05, they discovered a growth they could not otherwise account for and wanted to do another biopsy-type lump removal. This inevitably raises heady and frightening spectre of “cancer” once again. As I began to write, this “ectomy” was still in our future, results and reactions were also “still in our future”. We’ve been there, several times, but that didn’t make a diagnosis of malignancy any easier, any less emotionally stressful, even though “period of adjustment” was eased somewhat.