- 2025/04/04
What to Do if You Rip a Contact Lens: A Step-by-Step Guide
Whether you're brand new to wearing contact lenses or a seasoned wearer, accidents happen. No matter how careful you are, you might find yourself with a ripped contact lens at some point.
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- 2025/03/03
Maintain Your Child’s Eye Health for a Brighter Future
When it comes to our children, we do everything in our power to keep them safe, healthy, and happy. From regular visits to the family doctor to monitoring their developmental milestones, parents work hard to ensure their children are thriving. But how much attention do we give to their eye health?
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- 2025/02/17
How to Improve Your Vision and Ditch Your Glasses for Good
Wouldn’t it be amazing to ditch your glasses and see clearly again? Whether you’ve been wearing glasses for years or only recently started, many of us would love an alternative to glasses. Thankfully, there are ways to improve your vision. If your prescription is mild, you may even regain clear sight without glasses. Let’s explore some options:
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- 2025/02/03
Crying with Contact Lenses? Separating Truth from Fiction
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- 2025/01/20
The Hidden Dangers of Sleeping with Contact Lenses
Sleeping in contact lenses increases your risk of developing an eye infection by 6 to 8 times. Most of these infections are avoidable, which is why it's so important to follow your eye care professional’s advice for proper contact lens care.
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- 2025/01/06
Daily Disposable Contact Lenses: Are They Worth the Switch?
Since their introduction in 1995, daily disposable contact lenses have become increasingly popular, celebrated for their convenience and benefits to eye health. If you’re currently using weekly or monthly lenses, you might be curious about how daily disposables measure up. Let’s explore their advantages and drawbacks to help you determine if they’re the right fit for you.
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- 2024/12/16
Summer is Here! Eye Health and Contact Lens Tips for the Hot Season!
As the holiday season approaches, excitement is in the air—especially in the Southern Hemisphere, where Christmas and New Year's align with the summer months. It's a time to embrace the warmth, sunshine, and outdoor gatherings, making it the perfect opportunity for beach days, lakeside relaxation, and family get-togethers.
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- 2024/11/15
Understanding Lens Care: What’s the Expiration Date on Contact Lenses?
For those who wear contact lenses, the terms 'expiration date' and 'wearing period' may be familiar. But do you truly understand their significance? These terms are not just labels or numbers; they are essential indicators for maintaining eye health. In this article, we’ll explain the importance of these dates and periods, and provide detailed guidance on how to manage them effectively. Stay with us to ensure clear vision and healthy eyes!
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- 2024/10/15
Contact Lenses vs. Eyeglasses: A Comparison to See What Meets Your Needs
When dealing with poor vision and the need for correction, you have several options: contact lenses, eyeglasses, and vision correction surgery. Among these, contact lenses offer many benefits due to their unique characteristics, but eyeglasses also have their own advantages. Choosing between them depends on various factors such as your eye condition, lifestyle, budget, convenience, and even appearance.
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- 2024/09/04
Understanding Eye Anatomy: A Guide to How Your Eyes Work
For those who regularly use contact lenses, maintaining eye health is likely a top priority.
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- 2024/08/15
Smart Shopping: Buying Contact Lenses Wisely to Save Money
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the monthly CPI indicator rose by 4.0% in the twelve months to May (released on 26th June 2024).
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- 2024/07/15
Ageing Eye Problem? Understanding Presbyopia and Multifocal Contact Lenses
Have you ever found yourself squinting at a newspaper, struggling to decipher the blurry text? Or perhaps you've experienced the frustration of trying to read a menu in a dimly lit restaurant, desperately shifting it closer to the light in hopes of clarity.
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- 2024/06/17
Exploring Alcon DAILIES TOTAL1: Experience Ultimate Comfort Contact Lenses!
In the contact lens market, there are not only different types such as daily, fortnightly, or monthly, but also many products exist due to differences in materials (such as silicone hydrogel with high oxygen permeability) and the technologies of each manufacturer. And through the daily efforts of each manufacturer, contact lenses are evolving every day.
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- 2024/05/01
Answering Common Questions for New Contact Lens Wearers
According to Vision Australia, about 453,000 people are estimated to have low vision or blind in Australia.
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- 2024/04/01
About Qieto - Affordable And Comfortable Contact Lenses!
Qieto was created and exclusively launched by our parent company. Quicklens is one of the only two retailers in Australia and New Zealand from which you can purchase Qieto from. Since its launch back in July 2022 with its first ever product ‘Qieto1day’, Qieto lenses have taken over Quicklens as one of the bestselling lenses. The aim of launching Qieto is to deliver comfortable contact lenses at affordable prices, as it is recognised that comfortable contact lenses are desirable daily essentials for many people.
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- 2024/03/15
7 Safety Tips for Wearing Coloured Contacts
Are you about to perform in a play or attend a costume party and need to dress up? To make your look more believable and appealing, maybe you need to buy a pair of coloured contact lenses! Whether you have great vision or are short-sighted, you can still wear coloured contact lenses. But how well do you understand how to use these contacts?
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- 2024/02/15
Biofinity Lenses: A Top Seller Offering a Quality and Comfortable Wearing Experience
Soft contact lenses come in various types such as daily, fortnightly, monthly, colour, toric (astigmatism-correcting), and multifocal (for presbyopia) lenses.
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- 2024/02/01
How to Safely Insert and Remove Contact Lenses from Your Eyes
Thinking about giving contact lenses a shot for the first time?
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- 2024/01/01
Unveiling the Impact of UV on Your Eyes: Tips for Eye Health this Summer
In Australia's summer, many people bask in the brilliance of the sun, reveling in this vast and beautiful land.
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- 2023/12/15
Take Care of Coloured Contact Lenses in 3 Easy Steps
A simple and enjoyable approach to changing the way you look is by using coloured contact lenses. The ideal pair of coloured contacts can be easy to find and is dependent on whether you desire a subtle alteration or a significant one.
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- 2023/12/01
Protect Your Eyes: The Hazards of Wearing Contact Lenses While Swimming
Nowadays, many people stay fit through activities such as by going to the gym, walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, playing sports and more. These activities make people feel happy, helps them maintain their health and help them take a break from work and chores.
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- 2023/11/15
4 Tips for Contact Lens Wearers Who Want to Read on Digital Devices
Recent technological advancements have switched reading from paper to digital mediums. This shift in reading has both positive and negative implications. Paper facilitates better comprehension and can be easy on the eyes. But through digital devices, you may save paper and discover way more new books to read. But how is reading on a digital screen harming your eyes' general health? And what can you do to preserve your vision? Here is what you need to know if you wear contact lenses to read on digital screens.
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- 2023/11/01
5 Tips on How to Save Money on Contact Lenses!
Statistics from 2020 revealed that 55% of all Australians have vision problems and will need glasses or contact lenses to improve their vision. While glasses may be most people’s first choice when it comes to vision correction devices, more and more people are turning to contact lenses instead with decreased cost, comfort, and visual appearance among some of the top reasons as to why.
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- 2023/10/01
Transform Your Look with Coloured Contact Lenses: A Comprehensive Guide
Feeling like adding a touch of colour to your life? Or perhaps you're keen on giving your natural eye shade a bit of extra flair? Whatever the reason, coloured contact lenses are the answer you're looking for. Coloured contacts offer a fantastic way to either dramatically change your eye colour or subtly enhance it. Keep reading for a quick overview of the different types of coloured contacts, how to pick the right shade, and how to take care of them responsibly.
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- 2023/09/01
Essential Tips for Contact Lens Wearers with Seasonal Allergy
As the cold winter finally comes to an end, and beautiful flowers start blooming in gardens and parks, we can sense the arrival of the tranquil spring season. However, for those who suffer from hay fever (allergic rhinitis), this season might become somewhat melancholic.
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- 2023/08/01
Delving Deeper into Contact Lenses: Expanding Your Understanding and Knowledge
Soft contact lenses have revolutionised our daily lives, providing enhanced comfort and safety while being a popular method for correcting vision.
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- 2023/07/01
Understanding Your Contact Lens Prescription: A Simple and Easy Guide to Decoding
There can be a lot of misinformation about contact lenses, which only makes everything more difficult. To try and combat this, we’ve written up a wee guide on exactly what you need to know to keep yourself safe!
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- 2023/06/15
Winter Woes: How to protect your eyes in Winter
The winter season is quick approaching, which means low temperatures, dryness, ice, and snow are all things to either look forward to, or pray away. No one enjoys being sick through winter, so let's make sure we’re wrapping up, enjoying some warm drinks, and practicing proper hygiene, like washing our hands!
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- 2023/06/01
Colour contact lenses 101, everything you need to know!
Ever thought about trying out some colour enhancing contact lenses?
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- 2023/05/15
Uncomfortable contact lenses? Here might be why!
Have you ever experienced discomfort when wearing contact lenses?
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- 2023/03/01
How to tackle your first time wearing contacts!
Wearing contacts for the first time? Here's what you can expect.
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- 2023/02/16
Top Tips to decide between daily, weekly or monthly contact lenses
Do you know the history of the contact lenses that you’ve been using?
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- 2023/02/01
How to Save Yourself the Pain of Dry Eyes
In our daily life, we are always surrounded by many digital devices such as smartphones, computers, TVs and more, and therefore our eyes are being more at risk for dry eyes. Dry eyes are not only uncomfortable, but they can also affect your vision and interfere with daily tasks such as driving, reading and writing.
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- 2023/01/16
Our best saving tips for contact lenses
It’s no secret that for contact lens users, your lenses are part of everyday life.
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- 2023/01/01
Keeping Safe in the Sun this Summer
Our favorite season is here!
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- 2022/12/15
Common Myths about Contact Lenses
For those who use contact lenses, they are an essential part of everyday life. They help with seeing things clearly, and many contact lens users will happily wear contact lenses every day, or continuously if the lens type is applicable.
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- 2022/12/01
Protein build-up on contact lenses and how to prevent it
Contact lens wearers who use weekly or monthly contacts might know all too well the struggles that come with protein build-up.
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- 2022/11/16
Should I stick to my contact lens replacement schedule?
Did you know that your contact lenses have a replacement schedule? Your prescription should detail your recommended replacement schedule, but if you are unsure, you should check with your eyecare professional.
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- 2022/11/01
How to read your contact lens prescription
Have you just been prescribed contact lenses? Maybe you've been using them for a while now and are considering buying your contact lenses online.
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- 2022/11/01
Buying contact lenses online. Is it safe?
Do you have your concerns and reservations about buying contact lenses online?
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