Today's about more than lenses. It's World Sight Day, and while Lenstore spends most of the year helping people see clearly, today we're thinking about the millions of people who can't. Around the world, billions of people live without the vision care they need to learn, work and simply get through the day. The OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation is working to change that, and this October,…

Most contact lenses come out before bed. Extended wear contact lenses are the exception. With your optician's sign-off, you can leave them in overnight and wake up already able to see the clock across the room. There is a catch, though. A closed eye gets far less oxygen than an open one. So the idea only works because of what these lenses are made from, and how many nights you are cleared to wear…

Most contact lenses do their job while they sit in your eyes. Ortho-k lenses work the other way round. You wear them overnight. You take them out when you wake up. Then you go through the whole day seeing clearly, with nothing in your eyes at all.It sounds almost too neat, so it helps to know what's really going on. Here's how ortho-k lenses work, who they suit, and why they start with an…

What is World Sight Day?World Sight Day is an annual event. It raises awareness of sight loss and why it helps to look after your eyes. The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) has run it since 2000, under the long-running theme #LoveYourEyes.The aim? To get millions of people to book an eye test and take simple steps to look after their sight, before small issues become…

Countless poets and artists have romanticised eye colour, but science suggests that it can reveal a whole lot more than you think. Research has shown that eye colour can tell us a lot about our health, and some say it’s even tied to personality traits. To get the facts, we’ve asked in-house optometrist, Roshni, to dig a little deeper into the meanings behind different eye colours. FACT…

Your first few tries at putting in and taking out contact lenses can feel fiddly, and that's completely normal. Almost every new wearer fumbles at the start, then wonders a few weeks later what the fuss was about. This step-by-step guide shows you how to get your Lenstore lenses in and out safely, and what to do when a lens won't budge.How to put in your contact lensesFind a clean, well-lit area…

You've run out of solution at bedtime, or you're about to jump in the pool with your lenses still in. People ask us the same thing all the time: can you put contacts in water, even for a minute? The honest answer is no. Contact lenses and water don't belong together, whether that's tap water, bottled water, or the pool, sea, or shower. Here's why that rule matters, and what to do when you're…

Shopping for coloured contact lenses and tripping over the labels can be genuinely confusing. The words 'tinted', 'enhancement', and 'opaque' get used as if you already know them. You don't have to, and sorting them out is easier than it first looks. Each type changes your eyes in its own way and by a different amount. So the right choice really comes down to how big a change you want, from a…

Parts of the human eye The human eye is a sensory organ, sitting in the socket called the orbit, surrounded by skin, muscle and a strong layer of tissue. There are many parts of the eye that work together to make it work and, if looked after properly, protect it from some sight-threatening diseases and injuries. An adult eyeball is only about 24 mm across (about the size of a large marble),…

Woke up with gooey, stuck-together eyelids and a pink tinge to your eye? That's almost always conjunctivitis, the eye condition most of us just call pink eye. It means the conjunctiva is inflamed (the thin, clear film over the white of your eye and the inside of your lids). [1] It's one of the most common eye problems an optician sees, and the good news is that most cases are mild and clear on…