Does anyone know how I could get training in hand painted contact lenses? I would love to do that for a living?

I would love to do that for a living. I know it's probably hard to find (like with tattoo artists, they don't want competition) If anyone has any information to steer me in the right direction that would be great! Asked by clgreene425 31 months ago Similar questions: training hand painted contact lenses love living Arts > Bodyart.

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I can't find any training but this information at clspectrum. Com might help you at least. Issue: December 2008PROSTHETIC CONTACT LENSESProsthetic Lens Patient ManagementLearning to fit prosthetic contact lenses can add a rewarding new dimension to your practice.By Sunny M.

Sanders, OD, FAAODr. Sanders serves as the assistant dean for Clinical Affairs of the Eye Care Center at the Southern California College of Optometry as well as coordinator for the Ocular Prosthetic Services and the Practice Management Curriculum. Her primary teaching responsibilities include contact lenses, ocular prosthetics and practice management.Dr. Sanders lectures in the areas of contact lenses, ocular prosthetics and practice acquisition and management. Eyecare practices have routinely offered tinted and colored contact lenses to provide cosmetic changes to patients' eye color and overall appearance.

Beyond this cosmetic application of tinted and colored contact lenses, other therapeutic uses also exist. Aside from the practice building aspect of adding this unique use of colored contact lenses to the services you offer, the life-changing results are rewarding beyond explanation. Efforts to enhance the appearance of disfigured eyes or unusual ocular cosmetic situations have always presented special challenges.

Tinted and colored contact lenses can be used as prosthetic devices, but this use is not commonly associated with general eyecare practice. We are uniquely positioned to use our knowledge and training in contact lenses to design and create these special cosmetic and therapeutic effect lenses. ApplicationsA hydrophilic prosthetic lens is essentially a hydrophilic (soft) contact lens that is optimally fit on the existing eye tissues and then tinted or pigmented to mask the disfigurement or undesirable condition and/or to handle visual or vision performance issues.

Common prosthetic contact lens uses can include ocular masking of either sighted or non-sighted eyes that require a prosthetic lens for cosmetic management of conditions such as colobomas, cataracts, corneal leukomas, diplopia, amblyopia, aniridia, albinism, injuries and other disfigurements or abnormalities. The ideal outcome is to match or recreate the patient's natural appearance. Duplication of the natural pupil, iris and scleral appearance is the goal as well as any possible visual enhancement.

Patients today can choose from a variety of colored contact lenses to enhance their natural eye color or to feel more comfortable with their cosmetic appearance. Patients may request subtle color enhancements, very dramatic color changes or even correction of anomalies.To create these various effects, the contact lens colors range from opaque to transparent. Opaque Prosthetic LensesSeveral companies manufacture "stock" prosthetic soft lenses, which have some set parameters and iris color choices (Figure 1).

The opaque stock prosthetic contact lenses are usually designed to be replaced annually. The available colors are applied to the front surface of the contact lens as an opaque color "paint" and generally are successful for many patients. In addition to specifying the iris color, other variables to determine include pupil size, base curve radius and power.

Figure 1.1a (top) shows an eye prior to application of an opaque stock prosthetic lens.1b (bottom) shows the cosmetic result of prosthetic lens application. Fit these designs diagnostically using the colored fitting sets available from the manufacturers. It's prudent to diagnostically fit either a lens from the colored fitting set or a clear lens of the same material and power prior to ordering the final prosthetic colored lens for the patient.

This step assures wearing success. Patients should treat the diagnostic lens as they would any other lens design. Instruct patients on proper care and handling of the lens, then provide the appropriate care system and instruct them to gradually build their wearing time to the accepted level.

All prosthetic contact lens follow-up visits should encompass the accepted standards of care associated with routine care of contact lens patients. If the available stock colors are not acceptable to a patient, then custom hand-painted colored prosthetic lenses are an option (Figures 2 and 3). Custom hand-painted prosthetic soft contact lenses may be preferred when trying to match light or unusual iris colors.

More precise iris color tones and even scleral colors with appropriate veining can be created with this technology. During this process, a technician hand-paints special pigments on the front surface of the soft contact lens. The pigments bind to the front surface.

Because such lenses are custom painted to order, you can specify the iris and pupil position and even decenter them on the lens to correct for any misalignment of the eye. This technique can cosmetically correct an eye-turn on a non-seeing eye. Read more at http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=102361 Sources: http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=102361 .

Actually, it's not that difficult to get into. Just costly. The equipment to make them is very costly.

Learning how is simple, but unless you have strong contats, no pun intended, I assure you, in the industry beforehand, it is likely to be a wasted venture. Sources: my opinion .

1 No, but if you inquire with all the suppliers of same you might get a lead. Try:http://www.customcontacts.com/contacts/color-matching.htmlhttp://www.vampfangs.com/Custom-Painted-FX-Lenses-s/35.htmwww.contactlenseclub.com/contacts/cosmetic-contact-lens/all-about...lenses/get-trendy-with-hand-painted-contact-lenses.htm .

No, but if you inquire with all the suppliers of same you might get a lead. Try:http://www.customcontacts.com/contacts/color-matching.htmlhttp://www.vampfangs.com/Custom-Painted-FX-Lenses-s/35.htmwww.contactlenseclub.com/contacts/cosmetic-contact-lens/all-about...lenses/get-trendy-with-hand-painted-contact-lenses.htm.

2 Make sure you have good insurance. Non-prescription contact lenses can cause eye infections and injury. If you make a mistake, you could blind someone.

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2 Make sure you have good insurance. Non-prescription contact lenses can cause eye infections and injury. If you make a mistake, you could blind someone.

Make sure you have good insurance. Non-prescription contact lenses can cause eye infections and injury. If you make a mistake, you could blind someone.

3 I know, I don't need any comments about health and safety. I know all that already. I want to become somewhat like an apprentice and make FDA approved lenses such as 9mmsfx does.

I would start working with someone first. So no comments about health please.

I know, I don't need any comments about health and safety. I know all that already. I want to become somewhat like an apprentice and make FDA approved lenses such as 9mmsfx does.

I would start working with someone first. So no comments about health please.

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