Halloween costumes can often receive a boost of fright or an added thrill with the addition of color or cosmetic contact lenses. These contact lenses can be as simple as your ordinary soft contact lenses or they might be specially made hard or scleral contact lenses.
Often Hollywood relies upon specially designed scleral lenses to add a higher degree of fear to its costumes. Unlike soft contact lenses, scleral lenses cover not just the colored portion of the eye (the iris and pupil) but they also cover the normally white portion of the eye (called the sclera). These cosmetic lenses are not as comfortable as the soft contact lenses and will rarely be worn for long periods of time.
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