Novelty Contact Lenses?

Zillah

(Mods, feel free to move if there is somewhere more appropriate...)

Simple enough; where in Dublin can I get them? I've heard "Templebar" before but thats not exactly very specific...

Thrill

http://www.yourlenses.ie/produkt.php?id=466
http://www.yourlenses.ie/produkt.php?id=465
http://www.yourlenses.ie/produkt.php?id=8

Phone no. and e-mail on homepage.

Check out the violet ones on the first link
No evil glowing red one's i'm afraid.

Zillah

Oooooee! Thank you. I'm looking for solid black for Halloween though

Those ones are normal colours, I'm looking for freaky ones...

They're also actually Swedish.

EDIT:

I found a English website that does them: http://www.eyesbright.com/ if theres no where in Dublin.

Alter-Ego

Do argos still do them?

They did a while ago anyway.

Zillah

Alter-Ego wrote:

Do argos still do them?

They did a while ago anyway.

Not on their website anyway.

Faith

Contact lenses are a very serious thing, and even if your only getting them for Hallowe'en, you need to get them fitted by an optician. Everyones eyes are different shapes and sizes, so contact lenses are not "one-size-fits-all", even if the ones you're looking for claim to be. Chances are, you'll put them in the wrong way, if you can even put them in at all, and experience intense pain before blinking them out.

FYI, the Freshlook ones definately need to be tested first. I have greeny-grey eyes, and half the colours didn't work on me, including the violet.

Zillah

Thank you but if I want advice about eyecare I'll ask a professional. That is not what this thread is about. Please no more dire warnings, I've done my research.

Dublin, anyone?

Stench Blossoms

You could try Adhoc in Templebar. (Across from Eamon Doran's)

Ruu_Old

Sheefted from AH, redirect still there for traffic.

robinph

Zillah wrote:

Thank you but if I want advice about eyecare I'll ask a professional.

I think that was the point that Faith was trying to make anyway.

Zillah

orla wrote:

You could try Adhoc in Templebar. (Across from Eamon Doran's)

I know there is a tatoo/piercing place across from Eamon Doran's, is that the place? There's no "Adhoc" in the phonebook.

robinph wrote:

I think that was the point that Faith was trying to make anyway.

Yes well its well made now. I just wanted to nip it in the bud, the topic has the potential for spiraling into unsolicited advice.

EDIT:

Ok, I found "Ad-Hoc", but they don't have any, a girl there reccomended "Celtic Gifts" I think is what she said, but I can't find that, the only thing similar is in Skerries...

lubie76

I used to live in dublin a few years ago and I saw some freaky ones in a little shop in georges st. arcade. It was a shop with fancy dress and jewellery and stuff. Shop stillthere as far as I know. Do be careful though I work for specsavers and we have had a good few nasty cases come in with bad eye infections due to wearing the wrong lenses for them ordered on net.

Zillah

lubie76 wrote:

I used to live in dublin a few years ago and I saw some freaky ones in a little shop in georges st. arcade. It was a shop with fancy dress and jewellery and stuff. Shop stillthere as far as I know.

I think I know the one, seems like the kind of place that might have it. Thanks.

Do be careful though I work for specsavers and we have had a good few nasty cases come in with bad eye infections due to wearing the wrong lenses for them ordered on net.

I'll be oh so terribly careful!

Nala

Zillah wrote:

I'll be oh so terribly careful!

Actually don't bother going near any eyecare professionals, I doubt they'd feel like wasting their breath on someone who seems to be such an expert already. Just don't come whinging on Boards when you **** up.

Zillah

I see. So first of all you assume (incorrectly) that I was being sarcastic, and secondly you take that as license to make a pointless off topic attack. Lovely.

Rb

Quit with the attitude Zillah, all they've done is recommend you don't mess around with these crap lenses you want to buy from novelty shops and the like, and they've told you of cases they've heard where people have been affected negatively by it, no need for the snapping/sarcastic/"witty" responses.

If you choose to go against peoples advise here, and something does go wrong, make sure to come back and tell your story, it'd be a hilarious read.


On topic: You want novelty contact lenses?Go to a specialist i.e specsavers and ask can they hook you up with something, I wouldn't trust any others. These are your eyes your messing with, its not like a novelty tattoo or something.

DemonOfTheFall

I'm pretty sure specsavers sell novelty ones.

Faith

rb_ie wrote:

If you choose to go against peoples advise here, and something does go wrong, make sure to come back and tell your story, it'd be a hilarious read.

Indeed. Although, it can be hard to use a computer when your eyes are swollen shut from an eye infection.

I did see a small opticians in Cork selling cat-eye lenses, and similar ones, so I imagine the bigger retailers like Specsaves would have something suitable.

Zillah

Oh for Christ's sake, I made it very clear that I don't want to discuss the dangers, if you want to discuss it go make your own thread, stop preaching to me. I've already read the same stuff elsewhere, I don't want to read it again and I specificaly said so above. And the assorted "Haha you're going to blind yourself, come tell us" crap is so bloody childish. Stop sulking just because someone doesn't want to hear your advice.

What I said above to lubie76 was genuine, I will be very careful, why isn't that enough for people?

Faith

Because we're nice people who want to make sure that you actually understand the dangers. I've been wearing regular contact lenses for years, and I still have the occasional problem with them.

If you get them in an opticians, actually, I assume they'll make you have a fitting and teach you how to put them in and look after them.

Reading stuff on the internet isn't going to get you anywhere. Nobody regulates what's said on the internet, so for all you know, you could be reading absolute crap.

Zillah

Faith wrote:

Because we're nice people who want to make sure that you actually understand the dangers.

Yes, but you see thats not your responsibility. I didn't start a thread entitled "Please educate me on safe contact lens usage". Don't be suprised if people get annoyed when you start giving advice they specifically asked you not to give them.

If you get them in an opticians, actually, I assume they'll make you have a fitting and teach you how to put them in and look after them.

Perhaps, but they generally have a fairly long waiting list.

Reading stuff on the internet isn't going to get you anywhere. Nobody regulates what's said on the internet, so for all you know, you could be reading absolute crap.

Well I havn't read anything here that wasn't on that other old boards thread...

Rb

Generally, I wouldn't advocate people giving advice where its not asked, particularly on this forum i.e someone asks where to get X item of clothing, posters go "eww they're mank, stay away", I'm against that. This case however, I think you should heed any advice given to you as it really is for your own good, and you're acting like a muppet about it.

If you want to buy crap lenses in a joke shop or something, then by all means go for it. You've been warned, if something does happen to go wrong, you've only yourself and your ignorance to blame.

Good luck.

Zillah

Yes, good, there we go. Only myself to blame. Glad we finally understand that, this is only to discuss where to get my crappy contact lenses.

Rb

I'm sorry, but I can't recommend anywhere except a specialist. If I told you where you could buy crappy dangerous ones, and something happened, I'd just feel awful.

Blush_01

Specsavers et al have walk-in appointments all day every day. So you're wrong about long waiting lists. If you'd done your research, as you claim to have done, you'd know that. Also, you might find wearing contacts difficult, I've tried contacts a few times and when I eventually got them in I found them very hard to wear - they were in properly and everything, they just don't suit me. Besides, your eyes will need to get used to the contacts, they recommend that you don't wear contacts for more than 2 hours the first time you wear them, then build it up to the maximum. Contacts can also split or shatter in your eye (yes, even the soft, flexible, disposable ones), which is pretty bloody serious even if you know how to remove them, especially if you don't LISTEN.

I think your attitude to the casual and well-intentioned advice you're being given is the childish thing here.

Feel free to berate me for trying to be helpful.:)

Faith

Blush_01 wrote:

Contacts can also split or shatter in your eye (yes, even the soft, flexible, disposable ones),

Now that hurts like a bitch. A contact split in my eye before and I didn't realise it. I thought I had gotten an eye infection, until three days later, I blinked out half a contact. Ow. I still remember the horror of seeing it on my finger.

Sorry, back on topic now...

Zillah

Blush_01 wrote:

Specsavers et al have walk-in appointments all day every day. So you're wrong about long waiting lists.

Last time I tried to get an appointment I was told they were booked out for three or four days. It could have been Vision Express.

Feel free to berate me for trying to be helpful.:)

I think that'd be a bit redundant by now. We appear to be incapable to keeping our warnings to ourselves.

I'm out.

Stench Blossoms

Jesus christ leave him/her alone, you'd swear they were asking where to buy a bomb or something.

@Zillah, if you find em let us know where you got them from.

Zillah

Well it turns out that no where does them any more. So I bought a hat, now I'm a private detective...

Nehpets

my friend once wore a hat and fell down the stairs. i strongly advise you seek a fashion professional and get the hat fitted exactly to you head size and shape.

if something went wrong with your hat, please come back and tell. it would be a hilarious story.

:rolleyes: