Tips for not blinking while putting contacts in!?!

The blink reflex is natural and you can't stop that as you move the contacts onto your eye. But you should be holding your lids open firmly and not letting go of them till the lens has settled for a couple of seconds. I don't know how you are holding your lids, but for the right eye use the second finger from the thumb to hold down the bottom lid and the same finger of the left hand to hold the upper lid open. The lens should be on the finger next to the thumb of the right hand. Pull your eyelids apart with the fingers and hold them firmly as the lens goes towards the eye.

With the optiican putting them in - I still dont' like the optiican putting mine in after 40 years. I don't notice putting it in myself though. Its up to the optician to hold your eyelids open properly to get it in if he is doing it. Its quite usual for your eyes to have different perscriptions, just be careful to get the lenses in the right eye. If you mix them up then you'll notice either in the comfort or in the amount of things you can see. Then try swopping the lenses round. I like to have something at a set distance I know I can just see if the lens settles correctly on my eye so I can check each eye as they go in.