Tue, 04 Mar 1997

Crazy lenses made in Finland

STOCKHOLM (AFP): Tired of your baby blues? A Finnish optician has designed contact lenses featuring yellow happy faces, pink flower petals, red hearts and even dollar signs against a green background to spice up your life.

According to Swedish daily Aftonbladet, Freddie Bensky introduced his corrective "crazy lenses" a few months ago and now sells about 6,000 pairs a month.

Action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of Bensky's most famous clients -- his icy-blue stare in the next Batman movie is courtesy of the creative Finn, who has agents in Los Angeles and New York to sell his product to the film industry.