I was a pretty good student back in college. Although not with perfect scores every time, I was good enough to be in the top 10 to top 20 of my student peer batch. The reason for my success was due to my dilligence in hitting the books regularly. Alas, this diligence has a downfall to it, my eye sight failed and I had to get prescription glasses to correct my eye sight. (more eyeglasses details…)
February 6, 2010
Choosing Eye Glasses – Fashion and Function
These days, eye glasses seem to be less and less about vision correction and more and more about fashion. Stylish frames are easy to find, and options abound more than ever before. Many people wear contact lenses for vision correction, and choose one or two pairs of frames that they change, depending on their mood and the type of look they’d like to achieve. Of course, not everyone has this luxury, but some people even wear non-prescription lenses just to have frames for fashion purposes! With all the options available, how do you choose the best frame style for your face? Obviously, there is no substitute for trying on glasses before you buy them, but there are a few guidelines to follow in order to choose the most flattering and fashionable frames.
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Who Needs Reading Glasses?
Typically, people over 40 require reading glasses. As we age the lenses within our eyes naturally lose elasticity. Without that flexibility the human eye has difficulty focusing on close objects. Physicians call the condition “Presbyopia.” (more eyeglasses details…)
Flat Reading Glasses – Focus on Fashion Frames
Let’s face it — anyone from the baby boomer generation will recall there was a time when reading glasses were considered dull and boring by those people who were unfortunate enough to have to wear them. (more eyeglasses details…)
How to Buy Your Next Pair of Glasses Online
The purpose of this article is to simply describe what you need to do to buy your first pair of glasses online. I will not recommend particular retailers, as you can find that info in several of my other articles and also check out the links on the right of this page. Purchasing eyewear online seems daunting at first. If you’re like me, purchasing and fitting prescription glasses always seemed like a complex procedure best left to professionals. The truth is, if you know your prescription and have your existing rx glasses handy, it is really quite simple to purchase glasses online.
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Top 3 Tips on How to Choose Glasses and Lens For Sports
A lot of sportsmen hate glasses as they are an encumbrance to their active lifestyles. All that jumping and running is not what ordinary glasses are made for. If you hate contact lenses for sports, you are not alone. When choosing lenses for sports, you have to bear in mind your active lifestyle. Choose something fragile, and it is going to burn a hole in your pocket to replace it. (more eyeglasses details…)
Get Clear With Online Glasses
You wake up on a Monday morning and realize you have overslept so the next thing to do is rush to work and in this hurry you end up dropping your glasses from the bedside table to the floor and shattering the glass cradled in the frame. When you are using prescription glasses for your eyes you have to be careful but there are going to be instances when you will need to get a new pair. The kind of online buy options today will ensure that you won’t have to search for an optical store pressing your eyes at various store signs. (more eyeglasses details…)
How to Choose the Best Sunglasses Or Glasses to Fit the Shape of Your Face
Finding sunglasses that compliment the shape of our face is just as important as having the right hairstyle or wearing clothing that fits your body shape. The following are guidelines, not rules, for choosing a suitable pair of eye wear. One should choose sunglasses frames that contrast their own facial features, meaning that the shape of the frames are actually opposite the shape of your face. This usually compliments your features much better than matching the shape of your face with similarly shaped glasses. Moreover, the size of the sunglasses should be in proportion to your face; so a smaller head = smaller sunglasses. (more eyeglasses details…)
Time to Get Glasses
Over the past couple of years, my mother has complained about how her vision was giving her problems. However, she never did anything about it until recently. When I spoke to her a few weeks ago, I was telling her about how I had to drive my grandmother back from a party that my uncle had thrown at his house. It was a dinner party, so by the time that we left, it was dark outside. My grandmother had made no excuses when she told me quite frankly that driving at night made her nervous. As I was relaying this to my mother, she told me that her vision had deteriorated to the point where she actually had to call my younger brother to come and pick her up from work because she was too nervous to drive home. (more eyeglasses details…)
Are Non Prescription Glasses Bad For Your Health?
To decide whether non prescription glasses are bad for your health, you first need to consider which definition of “non prescription glasses” you are using. This particular term is used in two different ways. It can mean “fake” or fashion glasses, which do not have corrective lenses; they are similar to normal sunglasses, except they are not shaded. The second definition of “non prescription glasses” means that they are vision-correcting glasses that were acquired without a prescription. (more eyeglasses details…)
