Hey Everyone! We want you to be safe while putting in, wearing, and taking out your lenses. Below are good ways of being safe and clean while handling your contact lenses. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask us on our tagboard! Remember, cleanliness is key!
Inserting your lenses
Step 1. ALWAYS make sure to wash your hands with a mild soap before handling your lenses. Avoid using soaps with a lot of fragrances (I.E. Soaps from Bath & Body works) as it tends to sting your eye from touching your lenses after washing your hands.
Step 2. Put one of your lenses in the palm of your hand, wash your multi-purpose contact solution (available at your local drugstore) and use the pointer finger of the opposite hand to gently rub up and down on the lens. Wash once again with your solution.
Step 3. Put your lens on the tip of your pointer finger, and prepare to insert in eye.
Step 4. With your free hand, use your pointer finger and thumb to spread your eye open wide, slowly bring the lens closer facing the curve of your eye. It should then adhere to your eye, blink a few times to put the contact in place. If you put the lens in backwards, the lens will pop right out.
-To determine if your lens is the correct way before inserting into your eye, take a look at the image below. You want to make sure that your lens sits in a perfect bowl shape on your fingertip. The wrong way clearly shows that the sides will be bent out.
Removing your lenses
Step 1. Much like when inserting your lenses, remember to wash your hands with mild soap.
Step 2. Take your hand and place your pointer finger and thumb once again on your eye to widen, with your free hand, place your thumb and pointer finger on the lens and slowly squeeze and pull out.
Storing lenses overnight
After safely removing your lenses, place them in your contact case accordingly. Pour your solution in and screw the top in! Very easy and simple. After a full day's use of lenses, make sure you soak them for at least 6 hours.