Is it illegal to buy colored contacts WITHOUT a prescription in the US?!

Is it illegal to buy colored contacts WITHOUT a prescription in the US?

YES IT IS illegal to obtain color contact lenses without a prescription. Contact lenses are a medical device whether they are just color or not.... Anyone who sells color contact lenses and doesnt require a valid prescription is actually breaking the law......read the following :

Yes, under the law you need a prescription. This is true even if your lenses don't have any vision correction in them (called "plano" lenses) and are used solely for cosmetic purposes. For a two-and-a-half-year period the government classified plano decorative contact lenses as cosmetic devices rather than medical devices. But in November 2005 that all changed

The FDA has issued a consumer alert regarding such lenses, saying that they "present significant risks of blindness and other eye injury if they are distributed without a prescription or without proper fitting by a qualified eye care professional." In late 2004, it was reported that the FDA seized shipments of plano colored lenses, intended for sale without prescription, as they were being imported into the United States.

And in January 2005, optometrist and U.S. Representative John Boozman of Arkansas, concerned about eye problems that consumers have experienced due to poor labeling and packaging of some noncorrective cosmetic lenses sold over the counter, introduced bill H.R. 371 (the Senate version was S. 172). The bills sought to reclassify noncorrective color contact lenses as medical devices and allow the FDA to regulate the sale of these contact lenses again as it did in the past. The Senate bill passed in July 2005, while the House bill passed in October. President Bush signed them into law in November.
This is from allaboutvision.com check out the link!