How to Take Contacts Out With Nails

Taking out contact lenses often proves difficult for new contact wearers. This task becomes much more difficult when you add long fingernails that make it hard to touch a lens in the eye without pinching or poking. However, you can alter your contact removal technique to better suit long fingernails. Make sure to keep your hands and nails extra clean since bacteria under long fingernails can cause future eye problems.

Things You'll Need

• Contact lens solution
• Contact lens case

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Instructions

• 1

  Wash your hands, especially under your nails. Pat dry with a lint free towel.

• 2

  Fill your clean contact lens case with solution.

• 3

  Start with your right eye. Use the thumb and pointer finger of your left hand to hold open the lids of your right eye.

• 4

  Use your right pointer finger to grab the edge of the contact lens. Very gently use your nail at the edge of the lens to lift it off your eye.

• 5

  Use your thumb and pointer finger to pinch the lens and pull it from your eye.

• 6

  Rinse the lens with solution and set it in your contact lens case. Cover the right side of the case with the appropriately marked cover.

• 7

  Repeat for your left eye, this time using your right hand to hold open your eye and your left hand to take out your contact lens.