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Going out on the town and enjoying yourself is always more fun when you enhance the experience – and by that we mean dressing as stylishly as possible. With YouKnowIt’s superb UV Contact Lenses you’re sure to stand out in the crowd!

In the beginning there was the disco. From those bright and shiny days in the mid to late seventies, illuminated by colored spotlights, floor lights, and scintillating reflections from ginormous disco balls making everybody dizzy, it seemed that dance culture had reached its zenith. But gestating throughout the decadent day-glo decades of the seventies and eighties was a new dance culture phenomenon that emerged in the early nineties, now known as rave culture.

Ultra Violet Makes its Début

UV Contact Lenses

With dance music more energetic than ever, rave culture grew and became an unstoppable phenomenon. Regular ravers decided to express their love for their culture by taking advantage of technology and introducing UV (ultraviolet) elements to their club nights.

Fluorescent clothing, including shirts, shoes, and even suspenders, were the order of the day. Dancers further embellished their luminescent look with glow sticks, UV bangles, UV necklaces, and UV paint for nails. In some venues, the occasional glowing or flashing shot glass could be spotted at the bar. By the late nineties, larger clubs were beginning to spring up, and the clothing industry took advantage by flooding the market with designer club wear, with the emphasis on UV clothing and accessories.

With self-expression at an all time high with clubbers, the UV rage has reached a new level with glowing contact lenses. Nothing looks quite so striking as being surrounded a sea of glowing eyes! With YouKnowIt’s range of eye-popping UV lenses, you’ll reach the lofty heights of modern rave culture.

Our great range of UV lenses glow brightly under UV light and black light They look great in normal light as well, so you can wear them during the day and be ready to unleash a stunning glow for that party at night! Available in blue, pink, orange, green, violet, yellow, and white.

Blue UV Contact Lenses

Green UV Contact Lenses

White UV Contact Lenses

Skeleton Girl - Halloween Makeup

Halloween (and Halloween parties) comes once a year, but Halloween makeup is for all year round! For some people, Halloween is a bigger deal than Christmas. And for those of you seeking Halloween party ideas, make YouKnowIt your first stop for spook-tacular inspiration.

Our lenses look fantastic when worn simply by themselves, but can really make an impact when combined with striking makeup. And, conversely, if you’ve already made up your mind to be a zombie or vampire for Halloween or that upcoming fancy dress, then the best way to enhance your creation is by the addition of a pair of wild and wonderful colored contact lenses! For instance, your vampire outfit and makeup will turn a few heads with the right vampire contact lenses. You are sure to strike fear into everyone who is caught in your mesmeric stare!

The same goes for any zombie or gothic look you wish to achieve. Anyone can apply some simple cream makeup and look as pale and blood-starved as Dracula on a bad night, but the eyes are the windows to the soul – even if your character has no soul!


Halloween is still some months off, but you will want to decide on your perfect persona well in advance, and try out a few makeup and lens combinations to see what is right. After all, your outfit has to be the most shocking of the party!

Quick Makeup Tutorial

• Go for makeup rather than expensive foam prosthetics. It takes far less time to simply paint yourself, and you will have full facial movement.
• For that dead pale look as with the wonderful skeleton girl in the photo all that is needed is inexpensive liquid foundation and white cream makeup, available from most party shops.
• After you have painted your face and achieved that ashen look, use eye shadow to create deep shadowed eye sockets as well as sunken cheeks. Apply the eyeshadow around the eyes with a fluffy brush. You can bring the shading down the sides of your nose to make it appear smaller. Mascara and savage red lipstick complete the makeup application.
• If you want a more professional look, apply ivory foundation first, followed by translucent finisher. Apply to the face with a foundation brush or a slanted kabuki brush. Those skeletal details can be achieved by black cream makeup.

Coloured Lenses Complete your Look

And now the finishing touch…colored contact lenses! You can use any lenses from our range of scary lenses. We have enough fabulously freaky Halloween contact lenses to make your head spin – so go have a look at our incredible range. Be it black out contact lenses, blood red contact lenses, or our ever-popular zombie contact lenses, you can’t fail to find the perfect pair for your unique Halloween look. Our mirrored lenses look especially striking, and will give you a look similar to our favorite skeleton girl.

Bloodshot Contact Lenses

Blackout Contact Lenses

Mirror Contact Lenses

Weird and wonderful events are a fantastic way to show off your colored contact lenses and have a fantastic time. Freaky contacts are always fun, but the fun is supercharged when used as part of a themed event, where you can slip into a whole new personality and really go wild.

Zombie Lenses for a Zombie Wedding

Zombie Themed Wedding

It’s not every day you see a throng of growling, grey-eyed undead figures shambling their way along an urban setting. But that is exactly what happened in London earlier this year when young Liverpool couple, Jennifer Jones and Rob Blackmore, decided to claw at the face of convention and tie the knot in the UK’s first zombie wedding.

The couple, their guests, and even the ‘priest’ were completely and disgustingly decked-out in delightfully-dreary attire, grey skin paint, and soulless eyes. The event was a complete success, and the party afterwards was anything but ‘dead’.

Have fun with your Halloween contact lenses! You don’t have to wait to get married. Host a zombie-themed party or organize a ‘zombie walk’ down your local streets for Halloween or perhaps for charity. But remember, it’s those pale, undead eyes say ‘zombie’—rather than a horde of vagabonds wandering about risking arrest—and so choose from YouKnowIt’s amazing range of zombie lenses and make the zombie apocalypse a reality!

EDIT Zombie Contact Lenses

Pale Zombie Contact Lenses

Gray Zombie Lenses

Eurovision Song Contest

On the 18th of May – this coming Saturday – all eyes will be on Malmö, Sweden for the biggest song contest in the world. If you’re an avid supporter of Eurovision, wearing colored contact lenses just may be a spectacular way to show your enthusiasm.

Eurovision 2013

It comes around every year, and whether you love it or loathe it, the power of the Eurovision Song Contest cannot be denied. Fans all over Europe (and the world, thanks to the live streaming on the internet) will be cheering on their country, no matter how amazing or amazingly awful their country’s representing song happens to be.

Support Your Country!

As always, fans of the contest will be getting together to watch the show, pig out on junk food, and bite their nails as the votes come in at the end of the night. Games such as Eurovision Bingo, drinking games, and keeping a scorecard are common. Groups who gather together at the home of a mutual friend or at a specific venue will invariably hail from different countries, and want to show their support in a good-natured way. Have a look at our eclectic Flag Contact Lenses. Hot-blooded Italian? Pop a pair of Italy Flag Contact Lenses on to your eyes and cheer your country on. If you’re a fan of this year’s hosts, Sweden, you’ll want to have your country of choice in your eyes with our fantastic Sweden Flag Contact Lenses. Or, if you are a true-blue Brit, root for Bonnie Tyler with our Union Jack Contact Lenses. Fashion contact lenses don’t come better than this. Take a photo of your party posse and private message it to us on our Facebook page—you’re sure to get lots of fantastic feedback!

Italy Flag Lenses

Sweden Flag Lenses

Union Jack Lenses

Frankenstein and Dracula are dead (as in undead). But their iconic characters are constantly reincarnating, thanks to movie remakes. And not just in the movies. When Halloween comes around or yet another themed party, you’re bound to find a cemetery’s worth of Frankies and Dracs, each brought to spectacular non-life with a nifty pair of Halloween Contact Lenses.

Dracula Halloween Contact Lenses

Dracula

Dracula Face Contact Lenses

As for Dracula, the good Count has been depicted on celluloid since almost the beginning of the movie era. In 1922, the German expressionist film, Nosferatu, was the first on-screen appearance of everybody’s favorite bloodsucker – despite the fact that the producers hadn’t even procured the rights to Bram Stoker’s original book, or even the usage of the name, ‘Dracula’. But the phenomenon was firmly set in stone from that point onwards, and, a decade later, Bela Lugosi took on the role that made him famous in the 1931 Universal shocker, Dracula. In the 1960s, Christopher Lee became almost as celebrated for his own striking Dracula interpretation in a string of successful Hammer movies.

Frankenstein Halloween Contact Lenses

Frankenstein

Frankenstein Contact Lenses

The lumbering, electrically-charged man-of-many-parts, Frankenstein’s monster (often incorrectly dubbed simply ‘Frankenstein’) is just as legendary. While many look to yet another German expressionist film as his first movie incarnation—The Golem (1915)—it is Universal’s ground-breaking 1931 flick, Frankenstein, that burned the image of the flat-topped man-made monster into the public’s eye. Whenever people dress up as him, it is always the Karloff look that they try to achieve. But whichever of these horror icons you choose to emulate, have fun and interpret your look in your own way. And a great way to do that is by choosing colored contact lenses. Browse our fantastic range at YouKnowIt.com and knock ‘em dead.

There are many weird and wonderful looks in Star Trek, from alien to android. With our incredible range of colored contact lenses, you can pretend you’re one of the good guys, like the android, Lt Commander Data. Perhaps you prefer to become the green-eyed alien of the week. Possibly even the possessed and power-mad Gary Mitchell from the original series episode, Where No Man Has Gone Before. These and many more great looks can be achieved without even the slightest dollop of special effects knowledge that brought these Sci-Fi idols to the screen.

Yellow Data Contact Lenses

Star Trek

Silver Contact Lens Set

Star Trek Colored Contact Lenses

Star Trek's Lt Commander Data

Yes, Star Trek keeps boldly going on – and on. The franchise has accumulated over 540 hours of screen time – that’s including television episodes and movies. So how is that broken down?

Star Trek, the original series – 79 episodes, 6 movies

Star Trek, the animated series – 2 episodes

Star Trek: the Next Generation – 178 episodes, 4 movies

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – 176 episodes

Star Trek: Voyager – 172 episodes

Star Trek: Enterprise – 98 episodes.

Let’s not forget the 2009 movie reboot, nattily entitled Star Trek – starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto – a huge hit for Paramount which propelled the floundering franchise into warp drive. With the latest incarnation of the Gene Roddenberry’s intergalactic baby, Into Darkness (released today in the UK), that makes for twelve motion pictures in total. And there’s no end in sight.

We’ve all seen a really cool music video and thought ‘where can I get that look?’ well we’ve found three fantastic styles which will look incredible at parties. Our amazing range of colored contact lenses will totally transform your look and will immediately grab everyone’s attention.

Hopsin- Ill Mind of Hopsin 5

Hopsin White Contact Lenses

American rapper, Hopsin is known for his white contact lenses and is worn in all of his music video. The image is from his Ill Mind of Hopsin 5 video and shows his vibrant and extremely eye-catching white colored contact lenses.

We have a wide range of show-stopping white lenses which will give you his iconic look. You don’t have to dress up as a scary character for Halloween; it could be anyone or anything!

Katy Perry- E.T

Katy Perry ET Contact Lenses

Katy Perry sports a pair of reptile contact lenses in her E.T music video. The gold Halloween contact lenses with a black vertical give off a wonderful sparkle.

We have some similar yellow lenses with a 1 year life span which will immediately help you to recreate her dramatic and unique look. Everyone will be impressed.

Rihanna- Disturbia

Rihanna Mesh Contact Lenses

This superstar is seen wearing a pair of white mesh contact lenses in her music video, Disturbia. Clutching at the iron bar, she throwing herself side to size with her crop hair falling back into place.

Recreate this haunting look and show off your favorite pop star’s crazed look this Halloween. Everyone will love it and will want to go as a music video star to their next party.

There are events and then there are events. And then there are zombie events. If you haven’t heard, they do exist, and, just like the fictional shambling hordes themselves, are growing in number. Want to dress the part and get involved? Halloween Contact Lenses as the final touch to your zombie ensemble.

Just imagine it – you leave your home one morning for school or work, orange juice or coffee recently gulped , and there before you are hundreds upon hundreds of moaning, groaning undead citizens dragging themselves down the avenue. Not exactly something you see every day. But that could be because you’re not looking hard enough.

This is a ‘zombie crawl’ (or zombie walk). From New York to Copenhagen, cities have been witnessing these annual fan events for the past decade.

Zombie Halloween Contact Lenses

But it doesn’t stop there. As well as annual zombie crawls, there are zombie survival camps. Sign up, grab a weapon, and prepare to be attacked! By actors of course, all in the trademark torn clothes, bloody limbs, and green-eyed stares we have come to expect from the undead. During the week, attendees learn how to shoot a crossbow, coordinate survival techniques, and to best to outrun zombie invaders.

But if you simply don’t have the time or inclination to find and participate in large scale events such as these, there is always the tried-and-tested Halloween party. Arrive in gory style dressed in blood-stained rags, torn skin, and hair that might not look out of place on a coconut. Or why not throw a totally zombie-themed party? The ripped clothing and fake gore will be easy enough to achieve. But what about those cloudy, undead eyes?

YouKnowIt.com has every possible variety of colored contact lenses, including a delightfully dead-eyed zombie lens range. Pick ‘em out, pop ‘em in, and knock ‘em dead. A bite to the face will work just as well.

EDIT Zombie Contact Lenses

Pale Zombie Contact Lenses

Black Zombie Contact Lenses

There’s more than one way to lose yourself in the coolest movie-of-the-moment. Give our Special Effects Contact Lenses a try – trust us, they are way better than just slapping the poster up on your bedroom wall. Imagine it – you’ve just come out of your local multiplex, after spending two thrilling hours immersed in the latest special effects extravaganza, and you just can’t get it out of your system. You want more. You want to be just like one of your heroes, or anti-heroes. But how is that even possible?

Real Vampire Lenses

Terminator Lenses

Wolf Lenses

Special Effects Halloween Contact Lenses

By popping in a pair of startling colored contact lenses onto your peepers, you can instantly transform yourself into your favorite bloodthirsty vampire, ruthless cyborg assassin, or snarling wolf-boy (or wolf-girl).

Show up at the Halloween party looking like you’ve just stepped off of a movie set. And if you’re still young enough - or, at least, young at heart enough – to go out for All Hallow’s Eve, you can knock ‘em dead with your crazy-eyed look. It’s not enough just to have the fancy threads – you just gotta complete the look in style.

And for those of you who are film students or who just love to mess around with an HD camera, our special effects lenses will add real impact to your starring role in your own home made horror flick.

May the Fourth Be With You! Thanks to that now famous play on words, May the 4th has now become every year’s official Star Wars day. So, time to think of parties, costume events, and anywhere else where you can dress up and flaunt your inner Wookiee. And we have the colored contact lenses to complete your look.

These days, you expect to see a new, thoroughly eye-popping special effects movie released virtually every week. Aliens, strange worlds, and weird science now permeate film culture. But we’d still be watching disaster movies and flicks about giant sharks if it weren’t for the one film that started it all.

Star Wars Colored Contact Lenses

When Star Wars exploded on the scene back in 1977, nobody knew just how much it would take a hold of the world, or for how long. Just when the buzz began to die down, writer/director George Lucas announced it would be a trilogy. Then, somewhere along the line, he let it drop that there would be six films in all. Star Wars fandom was well and truly established, with conventions and costume parties revving up and gaining momentum. But it didn’t end there.

After the original trilogy had been and gone – twenty years passed slowly by. Just when fans thought there would be no more adventures set in a galaxy far, far away, along came the prequels – a new trilogy which explored Darth Vader’s formative years before he swapped his blond hero-locks for that scuba helmet from Hell. And so, in 2005, the prequels had their run. Save for a couple of animated spin-offs, it seemed certain that the Saga’s fate was sealed. The prospect of new films was light-years away. George Lucas retired. That, it seemed, was that.

Star Wars Anakin

Darth Maul Contact Lenses

Star Wars Darth Maul

But fans got the surprise of their lives when the internet was set alight by news that the big GL had sold the franchise to Disney for more money than even Han Solo could imagine, and that new films would start rolling out by 2015. Fans could scarcely believe their luck. More films were only around the corner, scheduled for release on consecutive years—and perhaps forever more.

Partiers, rejoice! There is now even more reason to dress up as your favorite Star Wars character, attend that convention, or spearhead that themed party. Then there is the Star Wars Celebration (which takes place every year in the US and Europe, attracting thousands of devoted fans). Stride into the event dressed as Darth Maul, or maybe as lava-eyed dark apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. Then, of course, there is a whole host of intergalactic aliens to choose from—and this is where colored contacts really come into their own when your own baby blues just seem too boringly human.