Pincher - Portable Soft Contact Lens Removal & Insertion Tool - Silicone Rubber Eye Lens Inserter & Remover Device with Pincher End & Finger Grips - Safe & Easy to Use, Travel Size – 2.3"

I've only had contacts for about 3 weeks now and have had trouble putting them in quickly and have a horrible time taking them out (the tissue trick works to grab ahold of my soft contacts but I'm not sure it is a good idea!) . This tool worked perfectly for me! I am sold! Worked the very first time putting in the left eye and the second try with the right eye - it has taken up to 25 minutes some days to get my contacts in. The so-so reviews made me wonder, but I watched the video on the product site (and being frustrated with my lack of experience and the process not getting much easier yet). I decided to order this Optiwand tool just in case it could help. I am SO glad that I gave it a try! It arrived days earlier than expected and was so soft and easy to use. I am VERY happy with this tool! Great for soft contact lenses!!!

I have tried and tried to get this thing to work and I finally just threw it away. It doesn't work like they say it does.

This was our last ditch effort for my boyfriend to be able to easily take his contacts out and out them in. He has the weighted contacts and they are much thicker than mine are and hard to remove.Regular/normal contact wearersProsThis tool makes it very easy to put your contact in your eye, instead of fumbling it with your fingers, you can easily hold it steady and put a little bit of solution in the contact before placing on your eye.Soft siliconeYou can look through the hole to line up your eyeConsI was able to take my contact out once, and I tried multiple times, it's very difficult to doHuge learning curveCan't get a good grab on the contactBeginner/new contact wearers/weighted contactsProsSoft siliconeConsCouldn't get the contacts out at all (we tried for at least an hour with the tool) so I had to take my boyfriend's contacts out for him because those things wouldn't come out at allOverall experienceLearning curveNot for beginnersNot for weighted contacts

Just got myself this thing today, really easy to use!To insert: Just pull down your bottom lid, line the stick up to your eye, look away, slowly make contact with your eye till you hear that suction noise of the lense gripping your eye, and then slowly twist the stick for a little then pull away slowly. Bada boom it's in!To remove: Using the end with the little strand coming off of it, pull down your bottom lid, look directly down the shaft of the tube, have your pointer and thumb choking the cup portion of the wand, make contact with your contact on your eye, lightly pinch and pull away.The main thing to do is just breathe and focus, calm your nerves and keep the top lid open. This wand took me from zero to hero, I love it!

Victory! after much frustration and many, many tries and abandoning the thing in disgust for several weeks, I have defeated the Optiwand Pincher in battle. This is what finally worked:1. The key for me was to get used to removing the lens using a finger. This took me an embarrassingly long time to learn. However you don’t have to master it - just understand the mechanics, where and how much pressure to use, etc..2. Pick one end of the wand and press the cup to your eye, centered on the contact lens. The split cup works best for me. Orient it in whatever direction you are most comfortable pinching. I like vertical. I’s not a suction cup, so hold it there. Grasp it firmly between your thumb and index finger, very close to the two halves of the cup, because you’re about to do the pinching part.3. Keeping the cup pressed to the contact, gently slide it off your iris, looking up/down/left/right if needed. Sliding downward worked best for me. When the lens is on the white part of your eye get ready to pinch by firmly grasping the the two halves of the cup between thumb and index finger. Hold as close to the cup as possible for better pinching control.4. The pinching action works best if done without pauses. Press on the contact and pluck it off your eye by quickly pinching the two halves of the cup all the way together. You will feel pressure but it shouldn’t hurt. It may help if you slightly turn the contact, like a knob, as you pluck it up.If it doesn’t work you might try variations, trying basically to replicate the way you’d remove it with your finger. From instructions I thought it was one quick press-twist-pinch-pluck and that never worked for me. Hope this helps someone.

Doesn't work, too hard to use, very dissatisfied

I try exactly as directed and this does not removed contacts . The suction is not strong enough please don’t waste you’re money I did .

I wish I knew about this device a long time ago. Now I use it every day to insert soft contact lenses and then to remove them. I've worn contacts for 47 years and have no qualms about touching my eyeballs, so I was never interested in a device like this. That changed when the device got my attention about a month ago. I decided to give it a try, thinking it could keep fingerprints off my lenses and fingernail scrapes from my eyeballs. It does both those things, and it is easy to learn how to use. Getting it to pick up the lens from a convex surface (by pinching) is the same as with your fingertips, so not much to learn. Getting it to pick up the lens from a concave surface (like the hinged cover inside an H2O2 cleaning case) is tricky, but you can wiggle it under an edge of the lens and patiently work your way inward until you have enough surface contact to pick up the lens - which is better than touching the entire inner surface of the lens with a fingertip, my old way. The instructions about wetting the lens and device and using a spin motion are key.

Well for me it work fine at least for installing the contact lens, but the removal is still pretty complicated. I follow the introductions but it is not grabbing the damn lens. Still trying to find a way to do this the easiest possible way.

Don’t waste your money

I thought I would try this. The cup is too big for my eye.

useless ~ THANK goodness for Amazon return policy.