Learn about contacts - compare cheap contact lenses online

This site provides complete information on all the major types and brands of contact lenses. We offer a guide to find great deals on cheap contact lenses, and you can browse the articles here to get a good idea of what type of lens is best for your needs. If you already have contacts, you can follow our featured links to shop for contact lenses -- replenish your disposable contact lens supply, try out some wild colored contacts, or learn anything you ever wanted to know about contact lenses.

Everyone who wears contact knows that they can be quite expensive.  Luckily, there are some excellent deals on discount contact lenses online.  Our guide will direct you to some great retailers, as well as provide informative information that will help you select the best brand and type of lens for your needs.

Vision Correction

If you need vision correction, you are far from alone. In the United States, over sixty percent of people wear some type of vision correction, either glasses or contact lenses.  That amounts to over 170 million people!  In the past, learning about contacts meant making a trip to your local optometrist -- nowadays, it is easy to learn about and even order cheap contact lenses online.  Online sources report that at half the people using corrective eyewear use soft contact lenses, with millions of users choosing specialty contact lenses (toric, colored contacts, or bifocal lenses).

While eyeglasses are still extremely popular, they are gradually losing their lead as contact lenses improve in technology, affordability, and comfort.  Furthermore, it is easy to shop for contact lenses online.  With contact lenses, there is no worry of breakage. And, as disposable contacts are both cheap and easy to replace when compared to glasses, the absent-minded among us no longer have to worry about forgetting our glasses on the bus or a restaurant table somewhere.

Types of Contacts

• Disposable Contacts: These are the most popular type of contact lens, and the most comfortable to wear. Generally, soft lenses are used for correcting near or far-sightedness. Soft disposable contacts are cheap, convenient, and readily available online. They are not appropriate for complex prescriptions, and must be replaced monthly, weekly, or even daily.
   
• Toric Contacts: This type of lens is designed to correct astigmatism. If you have a minor astigmatism, you may be able to use standard disposable lenses - but a more severe case requires this specialized type of contact. Slightly more expensive than standard lenses, toric lenses are usually rigid and not disposable.
   
• Novelty Contacts: This category includes lenses that are tinted or colored for cosmetic purposes. If you are interested in changing the tint of your eyes, or would like to use contacts for a unique touch for a costume, colored contacts are perfect. For normal contact wearers, cosmetic lenses are available in your normal prescription. Or, if you have perfect vision, you can find colored lenses with no prescription at all, intended solely to change the look of your eyes.
   
• Rigid Gas Permeable Lenses: Primarily used for more complex prescriptions or unique vision problems, rigid gas permeables, or RGPs, are not nearly as popular as soft lenses because they are neither as convenient as disposables nor are they as easy to get used to wearing. Although rigid lenses today are worlds better than those of just a few years ago, and can in fact offer crisper vision correction than most soft lenses, they remain less popular due to their cost and comfort drawbacks.

We provide accurate information about contacts, including how they are made, how they work, where to shop for contact lenses, as well as info on cosmetic lenses, disposables, soft contacts and rigid lenses.  Please browse our article archives for contact lens brand comparisons and reviews