Blue Fin Vision® Featured: Wellbeing Magazine November 2025

If you wear glasses or contact lenses, you’ll know the drill: steaming up on a cold dog walk, wrestling with lenses at 6am, or that heart-sinking moment when you realise your glasses are on a restaurant table three miles away – usually just when you need to read a train board. Most of us accept this as “our lot in life”. Glasses, contacts or laser. End of story.

But quietly, behind the scenes, another option has been changing people’s lives in ways they didn’t know were possible. It’s called ICL surgery, and if you’ve never heard of it, you’re not alone. Many patients only discover it after being told they’re “not suitable for laser”, or after years of dry, uncomfortable eyes from contact lenses. Yet for a growing number of people in their 20s to 50s, it’s proving to be a complete game-changer.

What actually is an ICL?

Think of it as a tiny, soft, flexible lens that sits inside the eye – like the most comfortable contact lens you’ve ever worn, except you don’t feel it, you don’t touch it, and you definitely don’t remove it every night.

“It works with your natural eye, not instead of it,” explains Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Mr Mfazo Hove. “We’re not reshaping anything. We’re simply adding a gentle, permanent focusing lens to the eye’s natural optical system.”

In everyday language? It gives you clear vision without touching the cornea. And yes, it’s reversible…