How about trying soft day lenses for a weekend? That would give you a chance to find out if you can handle them and how comfortable or uncomfortable you feel with them.
In my experience soft lenses are easier to insert and to remove than hard ones, so that they might be better for a beginner.
And what my revered pre-posters *bows* said: you get used to touching your eyes. Also, after a while the eyes get used to being touched.
Both glasses and contact lenses have their advantages as well as their disadvantages:
If you suffer from dry eyes, you should stick with glasses as much as possible. Also, if your eyes get tired, glasses are better as they allow more oxygen to get to your eyes.
Contact lenses, on the other hand, offer a certain protection for your eyes in the presence of heavy smokers (and - to a certain degree - onions as well).
With contact lenses you have a much wider field of vision while with glasses you automatically look only unto the rims of them and can't see things from the corners of your eyes. That's a big advantage in traffic or when you are a hobby-astronomer or work on a microscope. In chemical labs they come handy, too, as you needn't fit lab-glasses over your normal glasses (which can be rather odd on the ears).
Another important aspect which you already mentioned is that most people look better without glasses, especially if they are extremely far- or nearsighted.
However, if you suffer from astigmatism you should rather use glasses as their fixed lenses can correct such a problem easier than the freely floating lenses. There are lenses now that stay in a fixed position and therefore can correct astigmatism, but they are still awfully expensive.
On the whole, it all depends on your personal preferences. I rather like soft lenses, but can't use them regularly due to my dry eyes. I wear them only when working in the lab. Or when I'm out hunting for a future hubby
In my experience soft lenses are easier to insert and to remove than hard ones, so that they might be better for a beginner.
And what my revered pre-posters *bows* said: you get used to touching your eyes. Also, after a while the eyes get used to being touched.
Both glasses and contact lenses have their advantages as well as their disadvantages:
If you suffer from dry eyes, you should stick with glasses as much as possible. Also, if your eyes get tired, glasses are better as they allow more oxygen to get to your eyes.
Contact lenses, on the other hand, offer a certain protection for your eyes in the presence of heavy smokers (and - to a certain degree - onions as well).
With contact lenses you have a much wider field of vision while with glasses you automatically look only unto the rims of them and can't see things from the corners of your eyes. That's a big advantage in traffic or when you are a hobby-astronomer or work on a microscope. In chemical labs they come handy, too, as you needn't fit lab-glasses over your normal glasses (which can be rather odd on the ears).
Another important aspect which you already mentioned is that most people look better without glasses, especially if they are extremely far- or nearsighted.
However, if you suffer from astigmatism you should rather use glasses as their fixed lenses can correct such a problem easier than the freely floating lenses. There are lenses now that stay in a fixed position and therefore can correct astigmatism, but they are still awfully expensive.
On the whole, it all depends on your personal preferences. I rather like soft lenses, but can't use them regularly due to my dry eyes. I wear them only when working in the lab. Or when I'm out hunting for a future hubby
Enjoy!
