1. A colored contact lens comprising: a non-opaque pupil region and a generally annular-shaped iris region surrounding the pupil region adapted to cover at least 40% of a wearer's iris when the wearer is wearing the contact lens; and at least one pattern comprising color elements within the iris region, said color elements having varying sizes and being arranged generally in rows and columns, wherein at least about 25% of the rows and at least about 25% of the columns have a change in size of the color elements that fluctuates at least two times between gradually increasing and gradually decreasing.