Review: Alcon FreshLook ColorBlends GRAY

**This is not a paid review**

Other associated product name: FreshLook One-Day Color Contact Lens
Manufacturer: CIBA VISION / Alcon Laboratories
Base Curve: 8.6mm
Diameter: 13.8mm
Water Content: 55%
Use Length: Daily

I've purchased these lenses to use them for special events like clubbing, where I want my eyes to be a different color, giving me a bit of an exotic look. I can't wear yearly circle lenses for longer than a couple hours, so these were my only option when it came to gray lenses.

Overall

Comfort: ★★★★☆

Enlargement: ★☆☆☆☆

Color: ★★☆☆☆

Design: ★★★★☆

There's 10 in each of those boxes

Same as FreshLook's Illuminate series, the lenses comes in a tear-drop casing.

These lenses are 3 color patterned: black on the outside, blue/grayish in the middle, then a hazel color.

Although the color should be GRAY, the main color for these lenses seemed icy blue.

These lenses straight out of the pods are very thin, making it hard to move around and put in.

Comfort

Even with dry eyes, these were comfortable enough to wear up to 8-10 hrs :)

I did need to put in eye drops every 3 hours or so when my eyes got a bit dry.

Also, FreshLook lenses are so thin that it's hard to take them out at the end of the day.

I have a little trick of wetting my eyes a bit with eye drops and pushing the lenses towards my eye ducts to fold them up and to pick them out. It's almost impossible to try and take it out the regular way of pinching them out.

Enlargement

Left eye with the lenses on, right eye without.

Top with regular inside lighting, right with bright lighting.

As you can see from the photos above, these lenses don't offer you much enlargement, and they aren't suppose to. With a diameter of only 13.8mm they are meant to be natural looking but offering a change in color of the eyes.

Color

Please excuse these no makeup photos >___< my darkcircles are so bad..ahhh

^Under bright lighting

^ Under inside lighting

The icy blue-ish colors of the lenses don't show up very well when I wear them. To be honest, the colors are a bit odd, and I'm not sure how to describe it. The colors are very close to the pictures above. - faded blueish/hazelish color.

Design

Design is nothing special, natural design that blends in very well to your own eyes.

The black ring on the outside makes your eyes look clearer and more defined.

There was no hoola or doughnut effect with these lenses.

These lenses definitely look unnatural without makeup, so makeup is a must!

They look much better in darker lighting than in bright sunlight as the color will look very unnatural.

I love the slightly different look it gives me! :)

Here are more photos from the FanExpo afterparty I went with a friend :P