A tattooist partnership in Bournemouth have bolstered their eye for detail through the use of Ortho-k.
Amy Billing and Abigail Rawlings were inspired to try Ortho-k by Richard Taylor, optometrist at Raxworthy Opticians in Christchurch, Dorset, after becoming frustrated at wearing glasses.
Billing (pictured) said: ‘I looked at laser but with the cost it wasn’t an option. I saw this and thought it looked amazing.’
She has a prescription of -4.00 dioptres, and having started using Ortho-k seven months ago had immediate results.
She added: ‘After the first night of wearing the lenses at night I was -1.00 dioptre in the morning, and after a few nights I had perfect vision when I woke up. I can work all day and even if I am out until 3am on a Saturday night I can put my lenses in late and still see well the next day.
‘I hated wearing glasses as they always slipped down when I worked, and my contact lenses used to dry out as I was staring at the same point for a long time when I work. I can spend up to eight hours on a piece of work. It is literally the best thing I have done – to be able to wake up in the morning and see – there were so many things that were awkward or inconvenient with glasses.’
Rawlings had a lower correction and also found instant results.
She said: ‘I decided to give it a go, even though my prescription is only -1.25 dioptres. I hated glasses and had problems with wearing contact lenses during the day, but these lenses are fine at night. Once my eye had moulded to them they go in perfectly. The results are brilliant for my work, and I recently went travelling in South East Asia and the elephants were splashing water in my face – I couldn’t have enjoyed that with contact lenses or glasses.’