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I tried to wear contacts when I was in high school, but for some reason I couldn't go more than two weeks without ripping one. I gave up until I had almost finished college.

I stuck to clear contacts at first, but after a year or two I gave hazel a try. Part of the reason was that one of my childhood friends had hazel eyes, and I had always been jealous of Indians with light-colored eyes. I suppose I was also influenced by the fact that my girlfriend at the time wore colored contacts, as well. Sure enough, she dug my "new eye color," as did a few other people. I think it was my second day trying them out, when a random cashier at Randall's told me that I had beautiful eyes. People who didn't know me had to stand really close to be able to tell that it wasn't my natural eye color.

The next girl that I really dated didn't seem to care at all what color my eyes were. That was good, because the colored contacts irritated my eyes alot more, and caused them to turn red. After I broke up with her, though, I got bored of having dark-colored eyes again. This time I thought I'd try grey (again, something that I had seen my first girlfriend do). Although this new color was quite obviously fake to any observer, it also attracted alot of attention from girls. And as you know, I'm an attention whore. Unfortunately, my optometrist screwed up my prescription and ordered clear contacts, instead.

I finally settled on grey contacts, last month. This was based mostly on my feeling that they irritated my eyes less than the hazel contacts. As a slight downside, a couple of my guy friends are freaked out by my eyes being a different color from what they're used to.