They’re so convenient because you don’t have to deal with glasses weighing on your face day in and day out, but that isn’t to say there’s nothing to complain about. Here are 16 ways you also struggle because of your handy-dandy contact lenses.
1. Getting dry eyes
When it’s the end of a long day, at the end of the month, in dry air, your eyes are done. Your eyes are so sticky that just blinking hurts. It literally stings. You can only re-wet them with contact solution and press on your eyelids so many times. And if you’re up late and waking up early, it’s almost impossible to put them back in again in the morning. Ergo, it’s a glasses day.
2. When it just pops out whenever it pleases
Usually a result of dry eyes. Allergies will do it too. One moment you’re looking around the room, the next moment your eye is convulsing and you feel it brush your cheek as it descends to nowhereland and you have to try to pick it out of wooly carpet with your seeing-eye.
3. Keeping your glasses clean whenever you’re forced to wear them
The worst!! Not having to worry about specks on your lenses when wearing contacts is such a blessing. When it’s raining, you have to clean your glasses every time. And if you miss a spot, you’ll know instantly. Plus, you have to use the right fabric to clean them off, otherwise you just make the blurriness blurrier.
4. Getting makeup stuck on your lens
Eyeliner, mascara, glitter eyeshadow… first of all, it hurts. Second of all, what do you even do once it’s up inside your contact? Like, you just applied the makeup. You can’t just pop it out, clean it, and put it back in. That’ll mess everything up. You just gotta live with gross goop in your iris for the rest of the day.
5. Not being able to put them in
Contacts can be so defiant sometimes. Why though? I don’t get it either. They’ll curl up and bend over and flip inside-out and fall on its side. JUST DO YOUR JOB ALREADY.
6. Not being able to pinch them out
This one is so nerve-wracking. You pinch on your eyeball so much that your eye starts getting irritated and red, and you can’t even pull your contact down to go at it from a different angle. Sometimes you have to take a timeout and let it rest because you’re not even sure it’s there anymore. Maybe you’re just grabbing at eye vessels.
7. When it rolls to the back of your eye
Anndddd the most nerve-wracking of them all. Like, what if it doesn’t come back? What if you have to sleep in it and you forget? What if it stays in forever? What if you have to get it surgically removed?! What if you have to just get rid of the eye altogether?!!?!
8. Getting an eyelash stuck
This is when your eye becomes Niagara Falls. It won’t quit watering because you can’t locate the eyelash because it’s like IN there. You can’t find it, your friend can’t find it, so say goodbye to your finally-good-makeup day.
9. Putting them in backwards
It’s so hard to tell even by doing the hand test where you place the lens in the crease under your pinky finger to see if it flips or not. Why do they even have certain sides?! Who did that?
10. Tearing them
Contacts are so stinkin’ fragile. Just rubbing them in contact solution at the end of the day is a hazard. Even when a teensy edge gets slightly worn, it’s just over. Throw it away.
11. The burning sensation when you get it wrong
When you’ve put them in backwards or torn them, it burns like Satan just set fire to your eye sockets.
12. Having an odd number of new contacts
Chances are it’s the beginning of the month (you just put in fresh lenses) and you just ripped one of them; it’d be such a waste to throw out the good one. So, you break the sequence and use a new one and now you’re off on your monthly pack. I guess the best you can do it bank on another lens tearing soon.
13. Prescriptions rapidly changing
It seems like every time I get my eyes checked out, my prescription is bumped up another notch. They’re always changing and my contact prescription and glasses prescription can’t keep up. Even when I’m not blind, I’m blind.
14. Having to order them
Planning ahead is difficult, and the process of getting them ordered is the cherry on top. You gotta do what’s cheapest, or quickest, or providing of the best brand for your sensitive eyeballs, and then you have to commit to either 6 months or a year of lenses. Another curveball is not knowing how long your contacts are actually going to last.
15. Their longevity
Sometimes you can stretch out monthlies to two months, and other times they barely make it 3 weeks. Then some contacts are thinner than other brands, so they’re gonna be more prone to rips and tears.
16. People’s reactions when they see you in glasses for the first time
They look absolutely baffled when you wear glasses in that once-in-a-blue-moon and act as if it’s some out-of-this-world experience, like no one has ever taken a day off of contact strain.
