The lenses scream "Give me Gollum, but if someone scribbled on his eyes." Soleko Queen's Twins and Queen's Trilogy are SCARY UGLY BAD, Soleko Solitaire looks fine for IRL but bad in photos/video
Gave this company multiple chances, different days with our 0.00 prescription packs we ordered as demos in the past year and final go yesterday. Different colours, different wearers, tested them under light, flash photography, daylight, film, photos, everyday. AWFUL! These lenses are some of the WORST coloured contacts ever except for the Solitaire, because you could wear those out and look human. These aren't just so bad they would fail theatrical lenses usage. The twins and trilogy look like children scribbled crayon scratches all over the buggy eyed Gollum lenses. No way can I use these on acting talent EVER not for motion capture to later put CGI on, like NOTHING EVER. They are flat out embarrassing.
Your eyes feel like they're going to blow up on the twins and trilogy. I tried those on but not the solitaire, which got a good review on comfort from the wearers.
Solitare looks normal enough you could go out to order food and not get a WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS EYES/IS HE IN FX COSTUME glance from the waiter.
I've seen all kinds of good, bad and the ugly lenses for theatrical and makeup life, big $ customs from major movies to young ladies I meet doing makeup tutorials. The pupils on these 2 Soleko I complain about are HORRENDOUS. The solid chunk of one shade of whatever colour you pick. The way it's so badly pixelated and drawn on like what is this, 90's Microsoft Paint? They don't look professional but they aren't fun for say, a drag performance either where it's ok the lenses look a little fake or you going to buy food with a new look. They are just disfiguring.
Some Solotica lenses look monstrous too, fine. I wouldn't wear them myself, some of the Solotica I see around on women who openly say they wear them like one woman who sells makeup at the mall? They're bad but the pupils are uniform, the pixels are not soooooo scary bad.
We test things out for usage in future films, some budget to big, and this is like a NO from the moment it's on someone's eyes. I don't know how Soleko stays in business, maybe it's because people get duped by the fake reviews and influencer photoshopped videos/photos online or they sell enough of the meh looking, more normal Soleko Queen's Solitaire to make up for it.
I write a lot now because lots of you are struggling with money using what you have for your headshots, drag shows, FX makeup, movies, all of this stuff and am warning you NEVER THINK ABOUT IT. DO NOT BUY the Queen's Triology or Twins. They're so bad, it's not fun. Me putting these on for a vampire role for an actor in an indie movie would distract people because the scribbling is so weirdly unprofessional for a mass produced lens, it makes 90's Freshlook Colors look like $$$$$ custom lenses for dramatic lifelike reenactments.
Lots of lenses look good in front and fake from the side, or fake in reality and good in photos. These are not just fake or bad. They're so wrong, I would feel immoral selling them to clients if I were Soleko. A good natural lens has to be thinner so it blends into the person’s eye colour and not too far from what the person naturally has and if you go the route of drastic, it needs to be without giant scribbles and weird jumbo pixels. Without weird drab colour like a hardware store painted wall.
Soleko Solitaire have scribbles too but they're not as noticeable as they are thin and tiny. With makeup they could be passable from mid distance for casual usage. The solitaire lenses are thinner and blend better with the eye so more realistic. You would be MAYBE fine with these in most circumstances that aren’t work, but do not expect that you could pass them off for realistic for on camera work or wear them in a photoshoot. They're more like basic day trips around town. I don't wear them, but one of the demo wearers liked one shade of them for the idea of wearing them running errands or IRL makeup demos. For a role I am planning in the distant future requiring to have obviously fake on purpose but nice blue lenses that will have CGI over it, I am going to need a different brand. For my acting talent, I am going to have my actors in customs for monster roles and some other brand for daily life like biopic stuff.
Save your money, buy something else. :(





