Lens review: ICK Animate Green

Henlo!

Gonna continue with the reviews as I'm still so behind and yes, it's still stressing me out. But enough of that eheh, today it's time to show the ICK Animate Green! This is again one of those green lenses that are more blue than green, so depending on what you're looking for it's either a bad or a really good choice. Woo!

Base curve: 8.6 mm
Diameter: 15.0 mm

Water content: 42%

Life span: 1 year (I recommend 6 months) 

You can see already from the vials that the color is definitely a blue-green, think sea green or something along those lines or should I say waves? I'm starting to feel like this color is not as hard to find as I used to think when I started using circle lenses all those years ago. I mean yeah, it's still not a super common color but I feel like there are a lot more options now to choose from than like, in 2013. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On first look I do feel like these stay true to their name and yes, I mean the Animate part. These do look undeniably cartoony in their design, or should I say anime? It's a really simple design actually, a bold black limbal ring with thick dotted lines with quite a lot of space between the streaks. It definitely adds a magical, fairytale touch!

One lens in.

The first thing I saw is the lovely 'halo effect' – it's what happens when the lenses are bigger than your natural iris and have enough transparency so that the overlap creates a color difference along the outer edges. Did you get it? :D It's a bit hard to explain but it's really easy to see once you have noticed it once!

The color is indeed a blue-green, it's fresh and wonderful. It's a quite light shade in tone but there's no problems with the color coverage despite that, which is good. I feel like the overall look of the lens is youthful and full of life! It makes me think of mermaids or a kiwi fruit for some reason, it's such a charming color haha.

Lens photos below!

All photos taken by me during a July evening with a mostly clear sky. There's no color filters or such on the close-up photos and that's so that the colors would be as true to real life as possible.

Indoors natural room light.

Indoors yellow room light.

Flash photo.

Unlit corridor, poor natural light in the distance.

Facing a window. (not sun side)

Outdoors, back against the sun. (facing wall)

Outdoors, facing the sun while standing under the roof's shadow.

Outdoors, facing the sun.

Comfort is all good, these lenses felt thin and comfy to me – and I have really dry-ass eyes so that's already better than average. If anything I felt a tinge of dryness, maybe, but I'm not sure at all? Whatever the case I would still say that I could likely wear these for the common 3-4 hours, which is average to me and my sensitive eyes. It's more like 4-6 hours or something for those with more, err, normal eyes I guess. :D 

This is a really cute, cartoonish lens that also has an alluring pull to it. It's a fun color and, although it doesn't blend much, it doesn't look dumb either – and the lens is further aided by how the pupil hole appears to be a bit smaller than usual so the potential 'clashing' effect is not as pronounced. But it's still obviously not gonna look realistic by any stretch but honestly, I don't think anyone would get these lenses for a natural look anyway. It's a costuming and fantasy lens that is also great for j-fashion and such. I would recommend these if you are on the lookout for this kind of sea green color or anime style lens!

Distance photo~

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Reviews of another color: Blue

Short summary:

Color: 7/10 

A fresh, fun blue-green color. Sea green I'd say, it's pretty nice!

Design: 8/10 

Cartoony, anime-styled lens with a simplistic and bold design. It works well.

Opacity: 7/10

I have nothing to complain, despite the light color the coverage is really solid!

Enlargement: 7/10 

It's on the bigger side, not crazy big but definitely dolly.

Comfort: 7/10 

Thin and comfy, I don' t feel them. Perhaps a bit dryish but I can't tell for sure, likely just my eyes. Estimated 3-4 hours on super dry eyes, which is the default for me.

Naturalness: 3/10 

No, I don't think that these will really fly.

Thanks for reading this, woo!

Shiro Samurai out ~