Is it permissible for women to wear colour contact lenses?

Answer

The purpose of colour contact lenses is adornment and attraction. It deceptively makes the female's eyes more attractive. The underlying intention is corrupt. It comes within the scope of the Hadith: "A woman who applies perfume and passes by a gathering (where there are males) is like this and like that (i.e. like an adulteress)." Just as the purpose of perfume is to attract the attention of males, so too is it with colour contact lenses. Thus, it is not permissible for women, whether single or married, to wear such lenses and emerge into the public where ghair mahram males will view them. It will be permissible for a married woman to wear colour lenses within the home environment where she will not be exposed to strangers. Adornment and make-up for women are permissible for their husbands. But this permissibility for married women is not a licence for them to emerge into the public with adornment.