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| By Carrie Ann on Tuesday, June 16, 1998 - 05:41 am: |
Pretty cool group/song. I love the harmony in this one. I just got back from seeing The Truman Show (GO SEE IT) with my friend, Otto and we were listening to Super D in the car, so now this song is stuck in my head. But that's ok, cuz I like it. So hey, guess it works. OW.. that was one hard mofo sneeze. Damn, my ears are ringing and my nose is numb now. Don't think I've ever sneezed that hard in my life. It gave me major chills. Heh, thought I'd share. Must be the pollen. I've been sneezing all day. :p I bought some disposable violet contacts when I was in Canada last week and because my eyes are watering so much due to allergies, I haven't been able to get them in. That and the fact that I've never really worn contacts before and I'm having a helluva time getting them in and then getting them to stay. They're really lightweight, soft ones and I haven't found the best technique to putting them in yet. Anyone have suggestions? My sister and I were in absolute hysterics the other night, after having spent 30 mins in the bathroom trying to get these blasted things in my eyes. Such a bonding experience. Heh. |
| By Pete on Tuesday, June 16, 1998 - 06:24 am: |
Me? I just pop the fuckers in....what's bad is trying to take a lens out, you spend 5 minutes searching, and then realize that you already removed it. Or putting 2 lenses in one eye. I would not recommend trying to put it in while looking in the bathroom mirror....that always confuses me. Just look away, and put it in. (I just called for a free certificate yesterday for colored lenses....and idea what looks best on dark brown eyes?) |
| By CarrieAnn on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 07:06 am: |
I've been doing just that too. Staring straight at it in the bathroom mirror and all I succeed in doing is psyching myself out of it before I've even gotten within an inch of my eyeball. I tried again today and still to no avail. I tried a number of different ways, but they just don't seem to want to go in. I get them all the way so they are touching my eyeball, but then I go to look on my finger and they've bended back around to the form of that finger. I try to make sure they're the right amount of wet so they don't stick to my finger and just kinda float right in my eye. Blah! I'm determined though, that's for sure. I'll try until I either get the fuckers in or they expire. (Which isnt until June of 2000, so I'm hopin its the first.) I have funky eyes. They change color.. diff shades of blue, to diff shades of gray to diff shades of green. It all depends on my mood and what I am wearing. My boyfriend was looking at me the other day and mentioned that my eyes were this bluish/misty gray color with little green flecks around the edges. Kinda cool. But I bought violet ones because I've always liked my friend's violet contacts. She has brown eyes come to think of it. So maybe those would look cool. It all depends on what look you're going for. I think for the most part, they will all "work" on any eye color, but they will pick up a little of the natural color so maybe if there's a way you could try diff. sets on first. The place I went to gave me that option. Course it was an extra $20 or $30 to do so, heh. I've always been a fan of brown eyes, myself. *smile* My boyfriend has this huge brown puppy dog eyes, not to mention beautiful, thick, long eyelashes. Damn him, heh. But they melt me everytime. |
| By Pete on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 01:30 pm: |
But I remember my first pair of contacts....age 16. My Christmas present. After getting them home, I tried taking them out and putting them back in again....and it took me at least 30 minutes of cursing, sweating, wondering what I had gotten myself into. Just remember: Practice makes perfect |
| By Pete on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 01:34 pm: |
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| By Blindswine on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 03:08 pm: |
just remember to wash your hands and trimming your fingernails before poking yourself in the peepers. i won't even bring up all the horror stories about nasty eye infections as a result of bad contact hygeine... but all leave you this. anyone ever advise you to use your own saliva as cleansing solution when you run out? don't. |
| By Pete on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 10:33 pm: |
so i guess saliva ISN'T god/nature's own cleaning solution? i guess the kids in the hall lied to me about that.... but yeah, i can run my finger over my eyeball if i want....not that i really want to, but you never know. HA! |
| By Jim aka PajamaBoy on Wednesday, June 17, 1998 - 11:08 pm: |
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| By CarrieAnn on Friday, June 19, 1998 - 07:18 am: |
Thanks again for the advice, Pete. :) |
| By Pete on Friday, June 19, 1998 - 01:52 pm: |
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I lived your contact experience, and thought I'd lived though the worst horrors of them. (trying to get them in) I recently learned two new things that can go wrong with colored contacts: 1. buying Freshlook Colorblends - they SUCK. They are a total rip-off. I have brown eyes, I bought amethyst, and my eyes look BROWN with them in. No different than usual. I used to have some kind of violet contacts that came in vials and they were AWESOME. These amethyst Colorblends were just a total ripoff. 2. I also got honey colored Colorblends. For the first time in my life, I am losing the contacts in the back of my head. I find them the next morning when I wake up. I know a guy who said that used to happen to him, and one of his contacts never did reappear!!! It spooks me to put a contact in, then have it roll back into my head, and just hoping it shows up on my eyeball the next morning. It's happened twice to me so far, and I'm hoping it never happens again. The second time it happened, it didn't show up in the morning until I bent over to put food in my cat's dish. That's when I felt it roll forward. YUCK. Contacts are weird. But I like them- when the color works! Try TruColor on the visiondirect.com website. No prescription and they work AWESOME. Total real color- no fake Colorblend "technology" |
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I've done the two contacts in one eye thing, too. There's a particular brand of colored lenses that is good for dark eyes, but damned if I can remember its name. My eyes are almost black, and I tried on the grey colored lenses of this brand, and they looked pretty good. The problem is that the color is applied to the lens in such a way that it looks like the color in a newspaper photo -- there are little circles of color...you know what I mean? So your eyes look like they've been colored by a newspaper printer, too -- not too realistic. |
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I would recommend them to anyone with dark eyes. BUT TAKE NOTE. The ones they ship as 'monthly disposable's' (these are mostly availible around europe) DO NOT give the same results as they yearly replacements.... PS. The guy who said they made his eyes red when he woke up.... I dont think your supposed to sleep with freshlook lenses in... |
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