How to Store and Clean Reusable Yearly Color Contacts
By Best Colored Contacts | Nature Color Contact Lenses | Published: 2026-10-16
Category: Tips & Care
A practical routine for cleaning, rinsing, and storing reusable yearly color contacts, plus the case habits and solution mistakes that shorten lens life.
Quick Answer
Clean reusable yearly color contacts every time you remove them: wash and dry your hands, rub each lens with fresh multipurpose solution, rinse it, and store it fully submerged in a clean case with fresh solution. Replace the solution daily, never top it up, and replace the case at least every three months. Yearly lenses only reach their full lifespan when the case and solution are managed as carefully as the lenses.
Before You Start: What Yearly Reusable Lenses Actually Need
Reusable yearly color contacts are designed to be worn, cleaned, and stored repeatedly across their replacement cycle. That cycle depends on two things you control: a disinfecting solution that is compatible with soft lenses, and a case that stays clean enough not to recontaminate the lens overnight. Saline alone does not disinfect, and tap water is never a storage option because it carries microorganisms that can attach to soft lens material.
The products in this store are sold as cosmetic color lenses, not as corrective medical devices, so the same hygiene rules that apply to any soft lens apply here. If you wear a lens with a prescription power, follow the wearing and replacement schedule your eye care professional gave you, and treat the steps below as the storage and cleaning routine that supports it.
Match the Routine to the Lens You Bought
Not every lens in a color contact order is reusable. Daily disposables are opened, worn once, and thrown away, so they never need a case or a cleaning routine. Yearly and other reusable lenses are the ones that need the full clean-store-repeat cycle. Mixing the two up is one of the most common reasons people either waste daily lenses by storing them or damage reusable lenses by treating them like disposables.
If your order includes both types, keep them physically separate. Store reusable lenses in a labeled case, and keep daily lenses in their original sealed packaging until the moment you open them.
Solution and Case Choices That Affect Lens Life
Use a multipurpose or hydrogen peroxide system exactly as its label directs, and do not switch between systems without a fresh case and a full cleaning cycle. Hydrogen peroxide systems need their own special case and a neutralization time, so a standard screw-top case is not a substitute. For multipurpose solution, the key habits are using fresh solution every time, never reusing yesterday's, and never adding new solution on top of old.
The case itself is a wear item. A basic contact lens case such as the Wooeye random-color case is enough for storage as long as you rinse it with solution, let it air dry open-side down, and replace it on schedule. Random color selection is a small convenience, not a hygiene feature, so judge the case on whether it seals, holds enough solution to submerge the lenses, and is easy to clean.
Your Step-by-Step Clean and Store Routine
- Step 1: Wash and dry your hands: Wash with soap and water, then dry with a lint-free towel. Soap residue and lint both transfer to the lens surface. Checkpoint: if your hands are still damp, dry them again before touching the lens.
- Step 2: Remove one lens at a time: Take out the first lens, keep the other in its case, and work over a clean surface so a dropped lens does not pick up debris. Common mistake: handling both lenses at once and mixing up which is left and which is right.
- Step 3: Rub the lens with fresh solution: Place the lens in your palm, apply multipurpose solution, and rub gently for the time your solution label specifies. Rubbing loosens deposits that soaking alone leaves behind. Common mistake: skipping the rub step because the label says no-rub. Rubbing is still the more thorough clean.
- Step 4: Rinse the lens thoroughly: Rinse both sides with fresh solution. Do not use tap water, bottled water, or saliva at any point in this step. Checkpoint: the lens should feel slick and free of film before it goes into the case.
- Step 5: Place the lens in a clean case with fresh solution: Fill the case with enough fresh solution to fully submerge the lens, close it, and repeat steps 2 through 4 for the second lens. Common mistake: reusing old solution or topping off the case instead of emptying and refilling it.
- Step 6: Store the case upright and out of the way: Keep the closed case at room temperature, away from direct sun and heat. Do not store lenses in the bathroom if steam and aerosol products are common there. Checkpoint: if the case will sit for more than a day, refresh the solution before the next wear.
- Step 7: Clean and dry the case after each use: Empty the case, rinse it with solution, and let it air dry open-side down on a clean tissue. Replace the case at least every three months. Common mistake: closing a damp case, which traps moisture and gives biofilm a place to grow.
Product Facts That Matter for This Routine
- Contact Lens Case Random colors: Wooeye contact lens case, standard size, random color, designed for storing contact lenses when not in use. A dedicated case keeps reusable lenses submerged and separated, which is the storage half of the cleaning routine. Plan to replace it regularly rather than keeping one case indefinitely.
- Wooeye Queen Brown I Contact Lenses | 1 Day,10 Pcs: Wooeye Queen Brown I lenses are 1-day lenses packaged as 5 pairs, with 14.2mm diameter, 8.6 base curvature, 0.07mm thickness, 40% water content, and HEMA material. These are daily disposables, so they should not be stored or reused. Knowing the difference prevents you from putting a daily lens into a case and mistaking it for a reusable yearly lens.
Wooeye Queen Brown I Contact Lenses | 1 Day,10 Pcs
