I wore 'hard contact lenses' starting in 1965, but they were tinted on a transparent, see-through plastic. I wore about every available type of lens over the course of 33 years (hard, soft, gas permeable, toric, Saturn 2, etc.) until I had Lasik surgery. But back in the 60's, 70's and into the 80's there were no lifelike or believable opaque or occlusive lenses like are readily available today.
Today's options include being able to completely mask or camouflage one's natural color to any other color. But back then, if you put a blue, or a green lens over a dark brown eye, it still looked brown.
Yes, this is all true, but if you put a dark one over a lighter iris, e.g. my medium gray tint over yellowish brown irises, it definitely made the eyes look darker. In movies they sometimes used opaque lenses with a little hole for the pupil to lighten eyes--must have been torture to wear, plus tricky to fit so they wouldn't slip and give it away. I wore the tinted ones to cut the light, like sunglasses. Blue eyes would look brown under an orange tint, which would also cut a lot of UV. The question was, were Hillary's eyes brown or blue? Or perhaps a forgettable shade of hazel, which would have been easy to turn brown, but not blue.
Don’t think colored contacts were mass produced til the 80s- Killary was an adult by then.
No, I had them in the 60s.
Not the kind you are thinking of...
I wore 'hard contact lenses' starting in 1965, but they were tinted on a transparent, see-through plastic. I wore about every available type of lens over the course of 33 years (hard, soft, gas permeable, toric, Saturn 2, etc.) until I had Lasik surgery. But back in the 60's, 70's and into the 80's there were no lifelike or believable opaque or occlusive lenses like are readily available today.
Today's options include being able to completely mask or camouflage one's natural color to any other color. But back then, if you put a blue, or a green lens over a dark brown eye, it still looked brown.
Yes, this is all true, but if you put a dark one over a lighter iris, e.g. my medium gray tint over yellowish brown irises, it definitely made the eyes look darker. In movies they sometimes used opaque lenses with a little hole for the pupil to lighten eyes--must have been torture to wear, plus tricky to fit so they wouldn't slip and give it away. I wore the tinted ones to cut the light, like sunglasses. Blue eyes would look brown under an orange tint, which would also cut a lot of UV. The question was, were Hillary's eyes brown or blue? Or perhaps a forgettable shade of hazel, which would have been easy to turn brown, but not blue.