The ruling on wearing colored contact lenses

The questioner:
The first message in this episode is from a listener who used the pseudonym Ummah Allah A.M. She asks: What is the ruling on wearing colored contact lenses, whether for adornment or due to nearsightedness?

The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, questions about these lenses have become numerous because they are a new phenomenon in society.
However, if wearing the lenses is for the need of strengthening weak eyesight and the doctor has advised wearing them, then there is nothing wrong with that for the present. But if the eyes are healthy and these lenses are worn only for adornment or for affectation, then this is something that should be left off. It should be left off because there is no need for it, and because it may involve imitating disbelieving women. Many of those who wear these lenses seek to imitate the eyes of disbelieving women to match the shape they see in pictures, on television, and elsewhere. Indeed, it has reached us that a woman shapes her lenses to match her clothing. This is a type of nonsense that has no cause and no need for it. Yes.

The questioner:
If the need is accompanied by affectation or adornment, such as needing them for the style of her gaze, it is said: Take a blue lens, a blond lens, or something like that.

The Shaykh:
She takes a lens suitable for the color of her eyes. Yes.