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Contact Lens Distributors

If you’re a company looking to find a contact lens distributor, you’ve found a great list of contact lens distributors.  Before you buy bulk contact lenses, make sure you’ve checked prices and quality.  It isn’t a bad idea to contact the manufacturer and make sure the distributor is an authorized distributor of their contact lenses.  More and more contact lenses have been entering the market through illegal channels and have been marketed as real contact lenses, but in fact they’re fake!

Here are a few great resources for distributors of contact lenses:

Google Directory – List of contact lens distributors.  Sorted by website and alphabetical.

Trade Key – Another great place to find contact lens distribs is through Trade Key.  Trade Key matches buyers with sellers.  It’s free to post what you’re looking for and then buyers can contact you with what they have available, and what they can get.

Alibaba – Alibaba matches buyers and sellers on a worldwide level.  They have just about every type of colored contact lens, standard clear lenses, contact lens cases and more.  Just type “contact lenses” in the search box.  Currently there are 702 distributors listed.

Those 3 contact lens distributors should get you started.  If you need more, just let me know and I’ll post the full list that I have.

Navy Blue Contact Lenses

Most people looking for blue contact lenses want either the baby blue contact lenses or blue costume contacts. In the past few days I have had 2 different emails asking about the darker navy blue contact lenses. Of course we can talk about dark blue contacts as well as light blue!

Navy blue contacts don’t usually serve the same purpose that their lighter cousins do. You won’t find very many celebrities wearing navy blue contacts. Most people looking for blue contact lenses want to appear to have beautiful blue eyes, or like Arnold Schwarzenegger, they want to appear to be kind and gentle, not the first thought that comes to the mind.

In any case, navy blue contact lenses have made a very popular appearance in award shows with the younger MTV generation. For you music fans, you could have seen FoB at the New Years’ Eve party wearing navy blue contact lenses.

There are a few different stores online that sell navy blue contact lenses. My most recent purchase of navy blue contact lenses was through 1800 Contacts
. The lenses arrived quickly and I had them just in time for use as Halloween contacts.

Baby Blue Contact Lenses

Baby blue contact lenses have replaced blue contact lenses as the number one contact lens, and rightfully so. If you look at a picture of baby blue contact lenses you’ll notice instantly that they aren’t the dark blue contacts that you’re used to, they almost look like Blue Costume Contact Lenses, you know, right off of a superstar like Britney Spears contact lenses.

The popularity of baby blue contacts really took off when superstars like Anthony Hopkins and Paris Hilton started wearing them. Paris at a very young age went from brown eyes to baby blue contacts. Most people only know her with her baby blue eyes, but under those blue contacts she really does have brown eyes.

Just take a look at this picture of Paris Hilton with her naturally brown eyes:

paris hilton natural eye color

Buy Halloween Contacts

If you’re looking for Halloween contacts, there are a few great places that you can buy halloween contacts.  The first is obviously through your doctor or optometrist.  Most eye doctors carry halloween contact lenses in stock in their office.  If your doctor doesn’t have any in stock, ask if he can order them and you can buy them directly through him.  This benefits you because you don’t have to prove that you can actually buy contacts.  The second great place to buy halloween contacts is through the internet.  There are about 50 great companies that sell contact lenses online.  This place is one of my favorite places to buy contact lenses.  Many internet sites also will sell you discount halloween contacts.  Some of the best contact lenses can be purchased online as well such as brands like Acuvue and Bausch and Lomb.

Other places to check out for more information include the wikipedia page on contact lenses and the DMOZ director.

Contact Lens Prescriptions, What Do They Mean?

At my first visit to InfoMean blog, I found something that immediately caught my eye.  They posted a great article about contact lens prescriptions and how to understand them.

One of the biggest misunderstandings explained my Mike Schwartz in this article was the difference between vision correcting contact lenses, and contact lenses that still required a prescription, but aren’t vision correcting.  This is typically how must people get a prescription for cheap halloween contacts and then use that prescription to buy cheap contact lenses and solution.

The two types of contact lenses are marketed and talked about by Schwartz as traditional and cosmetic.  This is a great way to remember when you are talking to your eye doctor.

To read the rest of the informative article, click this link.