These lenses almost have a soft green hue to them.Although the color isn't quite as BAM bright as I was hoping, it's still a nice lens. As far as brightness goes, on a scale from 1-10 with 10 being opaque cosplay lenses, I'd put this around a 6. It shows up on dark eyes really well but it doesn't give you those "animated" eyes. Something that OLENs does really well is mesh that realism in there so it's more fashion color instead of costume. I've yet to meet an OLENs contact that wasn't super comfortable.