Gates To the Soul [Gold Contacts Are Hard To Come By]

As with every costume accuracy is very critical. Alice is a fictional character who has golden eyes. They are not cat pupils, but regular pupils. This is not natural at all, so I need to be able to pull it off as natural as possible.

So where do I start? Well these lenses are going to be purely theatrical (called plano lenses) because I do not need any sort of prescription for vision. Secondly I need to look at only opaque lenses, and not "enhanced" lenses. Enhanced lenses are only tinted semi-opaquely which mixes with your original eye color, so it does not mask it fully. Lastly I need to find out what brands are reputable lenses, and then narrow the choices between price ranges from there.

Alice's eyes are not hazel. They are more gold than anything else.

 

 

Another shot of Alice's eye color.

So I did a little web surfing for possible contact lenses. This forum on cosplay.com was very helpful because they frequently review all sorts of contact lenses. I weeded through the list for reputable brands and websites to order from. So now that I have a list, I analyzed each for the best pick.

The first website I found was called Eyesbright. They have a good selection of all sorts of lenses, and seemed very reputable. I was looking at their UV colored lenses which can be found here. I decided against them though because they looked too yellow and fake.

Color-My-Eyes is also another website that I've seen many people order lenses from. I was interested in their Europa brand hazel contacts. I wasn't very happy about how brown they looked in the photo. I was also a bit weary of website's images being altered by Photoshop because they all look so similar posed, and only the color changed. Also I could not find a review of the Europa lenses so I decided against this brand for now.

Next up was fashion-contactlenses.com. I heard that they were reputable, but they may also Photoshop their images too so I was skeptic. A possible lens pair I could order was Honey Total Colour lenses. However I felt they looked more brown than the gold I wanted. They also had a gold specked lens pair but they were enhanced lenses, not opaque colored.

Lastly there was a shop called You Know It. They have a variety of costume and daily wear lenses. I was looking at the Avatar lenses here. I think I've found the best match so far. These aren't brown, and they aren't a BRIGHT yellow like the first brand. So I suppose this is my best bet.