Lens review: RevoColour Yellow Manson

Hello nerds!

It's time for another circle lens review and we'll go with the RevoColour Yellow Manson lenses this time! Manson styled lenses have been around for ages and made by several different brands, they all share the same simple base design though. 

Let's rock!

 

 Base curve: 8.6 mm
Diameter: 14.5 mm  

Water content: 45%
Life span: 1 year (I recommend 6 months)

So this style of crazy lenses are as simple as they come – it's a solid single base color with a medium thin black limbal ring and that's it. It's so simple but so effectful. These kind of lenses exist in quite many different colors but not all brands carry the same color choices. I took the yellow ones as yellow lenses are quite uncommon and I wanted to see how bold and funky they looked on light eyes.

One lens in.

Okay, so the intensity is obvious. With such a minimalistic lens it's bound to look unnatural but that's the effect one is usually going for with lenses like this so yeah, it's a desired trait to look a bit whacky and mad for once. xD But the color is crisp and screamingly yellow, it's bold and bright and will surely be visible even when viewed from a distance. I do notice though that RevoColour's variants of Manson lenses are not hyper opaque, there is some very slight indications of transparency. This is not necessarily a bad thing, although it depends on how ultra omega crazy you want your eyes to look. Regardless, I doubt dark eyes would shine through.

 

Lens photos below!

All photos are taken by yours truly during sunny weather. All close-ups are free from color filters and the like and that's so that the colors would appear as true to life as possible.

Natural room light, indoors.

Bathroom light.

Flash photo, indoors.

Facing a window, not sun side.

Unlit corridor, weak distant natural light.

Outdoors, back against sun. (facing wall)

Outdoors, facing the sun.

I can't really say much about comfort as these lenses were also part of my forgotten oopsie box. I feel like such a broken record always repeating what happened in case someone new to the blog is reading a lens review from me for the the first time but the tl;dr version is that I forgot I had a big box with unopened lenses and when I found it again everything inside had expired. *insert sad emoji here* So instead of just discarding everything and wasting precious moolah I figured I'd at least review them on this 'ere blog so that someone, out there, might find it helpful. 

I don't recommend wearing expired lenses (please don't) but for the sake of the review I wore these long enough to get the necessary photos taken (roughly 10 minutes) and what little I can gauge of comfort is based on that short time-window wearing them. I can't grade them properly nor fairly but what I can say is that based on my first impressions they seemed thin albeit slightly itchy and a bit drying. Then again I have naturally very dry eyes so it's hard to tell when it's the lenses and when it's just a bad eye day.

Also, due to the narrow pupil hole there is some colored corners at the edge of my vision field in poorer light conditions, but that's to be expected when the opening is so small and honestly, it's something you get accustomed to quite fast so I'd say personally that it's a non-issue.

 

All in all this type of lens is just silly fun and works for both cosplay (especially if you want your lenses to be visible from afar) and other fashion looks – not limited to rockers, punk folks and monster themed parties. There's quite a lot you could wear these lenses to and I'd say only your imagination is the limit, although these are as far from natural as one can get so you might want to avoid wearing them to your baptist grandma's family dinner lmao.

Distance photo!

Short summary:

Color: 8/10  
It's screamo yellow! It's a very bold and intense color, funky and exhilarating.

Design: 7/10
Classic Manson style lens. It's very minimalistic in design but very effectful in creating a deranged look.

Opacity: 8/10
Very opaque but not as hyper covering as this kind of crazy lenses tend to be. Still gets the job done with ease.
Enlargement: 3/10
There's some minor enlargement but it's not really that noticeable tbh.
Comfort: 5/10
It's hard to say but they were thin and okay-ish, although slightly itchy and possibly a bit on the dry side.
Naturalness: 1/10
Bro, I don't think so.

Thank you for reading my blog~

Shiro Samurai says goodbye.