Shaded Contacts

Optimal Vision Color Contact Lenses Protect Your Eyes From the Sun

The Optimal Vision Color Contact Lenses are not meant to be used for cosmetic purposes and they wont give your irises a new look. These colored contacts actually shade your eyes from to hot, smoldering rays of the sun.

Optimal Vision Color Contacts can turn shades of green, yellow, red, and grey to help protect your eyes from the sun. They are a pretty ingenious idea, especially for people who don’t want to spend their money on prescription sunglasses.

Sun-shading Contacts
A trend of protective contact lenses that shade the eyes from the sun, disrupting the sunglass industry.
Functional Contact Lenses
A trend towards contact lenses that serve a functional purpose beyond vision correction, creating opportunities for innovative applications.
Non-cosmetic Color Contacts
A trend towards colored contact lenses that are not used for purely cosmetic reasons, opening up new markets and use cases.

Where This Applies

Eyewear
The eyewear industry can take advantage of sun-shading contact lenses to offer a new type of product to consumers.
Medical Devices
The functional aspect of these contact lenses can lead to more innovation in the medical device industry.
Outdoor Recreation
The outdoor recreation industry can benefit from sun-shading contacts by offering a new way to protect eyes during outdoor activities.
SCORE
5.9 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, Europe
GENERATION
  • Gen Z
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen X
  • Millennial (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 85%
Activity 85%
Freshness 8%

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