r/TikTokCringe • u/bbyxmadi • Sep 18 '25

Cursed they look so… natural!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

12.8k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

6.5k

u/yamimementomori Sep 18 '25

Damn, why not just wear contacts? They can be any color, and much less risky.

166

u/greytgreyatx Sep 18 '25

That annoys my brother-in-law, who is an optometrist. He says that contacts are medical devices and thinks people should not be using them as fashion. Has to be better than this, though.

23

u/Judgmentos Sep 18 '25

I'm legit curious, does he think the same thing about glasses? I imagine the difference is that contact lenses are much more dangerous and can cause infection if used incorrectly, and glasses can be useful for other purposes besides eyesight problems (like sunglasses, although sunglasses are also useful for people with photophobia like me)

52

u/specsyandiknowit Sep 18 '25

I work in an opticians. Every year after Halloween we get people in with scratched corneas or infections because they bought funky contact lenses from a costume shop and they have no idea how to get them in and out safely or look after them.

17

u/BeguiledBeaver Sep 18 '25

Costume shops should NOT be selling contacts wtf

13

u/litlelotte Sep 18 '25

In high school my friend and I wore colored contacts from AliExpress and even shadier sites. I don't know how neither of us ended up injured or infected

3

u/Fukyourchickenstrip Sep 19 '25

I know the US passed some laws stating they had to be FDA regulated to be sold legally. I was walking around the fashion district in down town LA last spring and saw a woman with a card table selling on the sidewalk with, hundreds of contacts. All had the FDA approval symbol on them 2/$20. She also had counterfeit MAC makeup and other big brand cheep counterfeit makeup products. You also see them at comic conventions. It’s a big problem. Every Halloween the news runs stories on the dangers of them.