Lens review: ColourVue Phantasee Pure Galaxy

Hello folks!

It's time for another colored contact lens review, woop! I'm going to review the cool but sadly discontinued ColourVue Phantasee Pure Galaxy lenses. I bought these ages ago on a blowout sale – maybe they were already leaving the market back then? I can't know that, but what I do know is that I've been unable to locate these lenses since then; it appears that the Phantasee series, as I remember it, has been almost completely redone. It sucks that these lenses are gone but, regardless, I wanted to review them for posterity.

Let's go!

Base curve: 8.6 mm
Diameter: 14.0 mm
Water content: 45%
Life span: 1 year (I recommend 6 months)

You just need one look at these lenses to be able to tell that they will be quite intense-looking when worn. I mean, they're pure white with no black limbal ring – that's already enough to know that these will be at least moderately freaky. But if you intentionally buy crazy lenses that's a look you're okay with, right?
Aside from the opaque white color there are these blocky swirl prints in a medium yellow tone. Overall the design is simplistic, it's literally just two colors, but it has a really strong effect on your appearance. As is expected from crazy lenses these lenses are very bold in style and have a flawless color coverage – my real eye color, a grayish blue, doesn't show through at all. The pupil hole is also a bit on the narrow side so that helps in not letting a lot of your eye color show through in the middle. The drawback to this though is that sometimes you might see colored corners at the edges of your vision or have a slight blur, especially in poorer light conditions when your pupils dilate to let in more light.

One lens in.

There's a very slight enlargement effect but honestly, for me at least, it's negligible. These lenses look quite rad to be honest, they give me sci-fi vibes and I'm very much digging it! Due to the white being the main color these can easily look creepy though, similar to how unnerving those "white zombie" lenses can look. Some people like this kind of style but it can be scary for others (when I was taking photos outside I made sure that my elderly neighbor didn't see me lol) so yeah, it doesn't hurt to be a bit extra considerate of people around you.

Lens photos below!
All photos taken by yours truly during a sunny October noon. All close-up photos are free from color filters etc and that's so that the colors would be as true to real life as possible.

Indoors, natural room light. 

Indoors, yellow room light.

Bathroom light.

Flash photo.

Indoors, facing window. Not sun side.

Outdoors, back against the sun. Facing the wall.

Outdoors, facing the sun.

Since I already said at the beginning of this review that I bought these lenses a long time ago, well, some of you who've been reading my blog lately might already have guessed that these were also a part of "the box". Yes, that one doomed box that I accidentally forgot about which contained a lot of expired, unused lenses. I've been going through the contents of said box, doing one review at a time, for a while now and the Pure Galaxy lenses were a part of it.
I don't wear expired lenses longer than necessary to get the photos taken and that also means that I can't try out the comfort properly because I immediately discard the lenses afterwards. Please do not wear expired lenses to events and parties etc even if they seem comfortable and normal, like they very well might do. My comfort impressions of these lenses were that they seemed overall to be decent to wear and I didn't feel them much at all, except for the left lens being a bit itchy upon insertion before it settled. I'd wager that they'd be acceptable in terms of comfort, had they been fresh. Maybe 2-4 hours of wear on dry-ass eyes such as mine.

It's a bit of a bummer that these exact lenses don't seem to exist anymore but yeah, there might still be something similar out there if these swirly galaxy peepers tickle your fancy.

Distance photo!

Short summary:

Color: 8/10 

Pure white lens with yellow spin detail. Despite being just two colors it's very visible and impactful.

Design: 8/10 

Simple in design but powerful in effect. Can even look frightening with the right accessories.

Opacity: 10/10

Perfect coverage, there's no risk of your real eye color shining through. The white is so bold!

Enlargement: 2/10 

Very minor enlargement, it's hardly noticeable on my eyes.

Comfort: 7/10 

Appears to be quite standard comfort, I didn't feel them much after they settled. Might affect vision slightly in low light conditions.

Naturalness: 1/10 

These are far from natural unless you think looking like a science fiction anti-hero counts as natural, lol.

Thanks for your interest, more reviews will be up soon!

~ Shiro Samurai out.