How To Put In Contact Lenses

5 Place the contact lens on your eye and release your lower lid.
How to put in contact lenses. Once the lens is on your finger tip slowly pull your finger out of the container and transfer the lens to the palm of your hand. If the lens looks like a dome edges are down flip the lens the other way. Using your index finger touch the lens delicately and move it down to the whites of your eyes.
Before you remove your contact lenses make sure you wash and dry your hands thoroughly. Put your left arm over your head and pull on your top lid or bring it up under your chin and lower your bottom lid Whatever works for you but these two methods keep your left arm and hand out of the way so you can still see the mirror. Simply repeat for your left eye.
They are by far the most used because thanks to their flexibility and breathability they allow the eyes to breathe better and are more practical. One way to put on the contact lens is by holding your upper lid with one hand and using the pointer finger of your other hand to place the lens on your eye. Toward your eye steadily.
Look in the mirror and use the hand not holding the contact to open your upper and lower eyelid. Look upward as you place it on your eye and slowly release your eyelid and close your eye for a moment to allow the lens to settle. You can do this or youre free to look straight at the lens too.
After you remove the lens put it in the palm of your hand and wet it with contact solution. Check the lens looks okay - it should be a bowl shape. Pinch the lens with your thumb and index finger and remove from your eye.
As you blink the contact lens will center itself. You can choose between daily weekly fortnightly monthly contact lenses. Hold your eyelid and insert your contact lens.