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Your Eyes are Worth Any Amount of Money

Your sight is precious. You only have one chance, once your eyesight goes it’s gone for good! So if you’ve started noticing that things aren’t quite as clear as they used to be, investing in a decent pair of glasses could save your eyesight from getting any worse. Prescription glasses, whether they are for constant wear or just for reading or watching television, are custom-made to suit each individual’s specific requirements accord ing to the results of their eye test. Having a regular eye test every two years means that you always know what glasses you should wear to correct any problems your eyes may have at that time. Once you know your prescription you can give it to any glasses store or website and get the right glasses made for you.

Proper prescription glasses can be expensive, especially if you choose designer frames, so many people consider buying ready-made reading glasses at a pharmacy or department store. The main issue with these cheap glasses is that you can only guess which ones are right for you, and without a prescription or the help of a trained optician they could make your eyes much worse in the long term. Prescription glasses neednt cost a fortune in the very competitive optical market nowadays and many online providers are offering fantastic deals on cheap glasses that are nonetheless correctly made and of the very highest optical quality.

Getting the correct prescription glasses is essential to correct what may be more serious underlying problems with your sight and thats something that wont be addressed if you buy off the shelf. You might think your failing eyesight is thanks to getting a bit older, but if you don’t get a proper eye test you could be missing a potentially much more serious problem like Glaucoma. Most cheap glasses are single vision. Lenses that are specifically suited to the wearer’s particular needs, such as Bifocal or Varifocal lenses which graduate in strength, are a much more sensible buy and are only available with a prescription. When it comes down to it, there is no limit to how much your eyesight is worth. Properly prescribed and dispensed glasses will protect and improve your vision and they neednt cost a fortune

Posted by fashion - August 22, 2009 at 11:03 pm

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Designer Glasses Protect Your Eyes And Make You Look Good Too

The glasses or sunglasses that you wear can make a huge difference to your image and the way people see you.Choosing the right glasses isn’t just about improving your eyesight but also about communicating your personality.You have to be comfortable in your glasses and confident that you look good too, which explains why so many people are choosing to buy designer glasses and designer sunglasses nowadays.

There are literally hundreds of designer styles, shapes, materials, colours and sizes available nowadays.It can be a bit overwhleming deciding between so many different styles. With designer glasses, the image you want to project is probably the consideration.For work wear a more sensible and plain style may be more appropriate. If you want to make a statement and go for bright unrestrained glasses there are dozens of recognised designer brands out there, including Prada glasses for example that combine an intrinsic sense of style with the name recognition that is more of a fashion and lifestyle statement. Whichever way you lean, choose designer glasses to suit the shape of your face and not just your outfits or your desired social standing.This is just as important when deciding on designer sunglasses.

Oval shaped or rounded frames are best suited to a square face. If you have a broad forehead tapering to a small chin and mouth try smaller styles, slender rounded or square with lower set sides. Don’t go for a style which widens at the top as they will only exaggerate your face shape, as will frames with decoration at the sidse or temples. Wider styles suit those with wider foreheads, full cheeks and a rounded face.Small rounded styles and any large frames should be avoided as they will only make your face look more round.

The face that suits any style is oval shaped with a wide forehead, high cheekbone and curved jawline, if this is you, you can take the pick of the bunch.A long face with high cheekbones and a deep forehead will look good with wider glasses that have a stronger top line.The perfect frames for an oval shaped face are large square shapes, though avoid smaller squares. Bold, bright designs will suit you if your face widens at the jaw, but narrower frames will not look so good.

With designer sunglasses in particular, remember that, aside from making you look good, the primary role of these items is still to protect your eyes from the harmful effects of UV radiation. If you can, try the glasses on for comfort, style and feel.Most importantly remember that the only person you really need to please is yourself!

Posted by fashion - August 21, 2009 at 3:09 am

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How Much Do Your Designer Glasses Say About Your Personality

We all know glasses change the way we look but in some cases they can really make the man (or woman!). John Lennon’s trademark round lenses were so recognisable that the style came to be named after him as the ‘Lennon’. This isn’t only a demonstration of how much glasses can influence a person’s image but also says something about the modern media. Lennon glasses could just as easily been called after Groucho Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, or Joseph Stalin, – they all wore the same style.

The movie Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise as Lt Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Kelly McGillis as Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood with adequate support from Val Kilmer as Lt Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, launched several careers and fuelled many an adolescent fantasy, arguably the real stars though were the aviator sunglasses that adorned the cast in most of the movie. When the film aired sales of the aviator style specs soared with it, as the F14 Tomcat jet fighters, which at the time were the zenith of US naval aviation. Aviator style shapes are also the preferred designer sunglasses of Cristiano Ronaldo and were the accessory of choice for the late king of pop, Michael Jackson.

Designer glasses are of course mainly about image, but sometimes that image doesn’t need to be tremendously cool. You only have to look as far as the two Ronnies with their horn rim specs which were all the logo their show really needed. Their glasses became easily as iconic and recognisable as those of Lennon or Cruise but in the case of the two Ronnies, the point was to make them look sillier and more geeky. Snooker player Dennis Taylor’s famous designer glasses had a distinctive, swivel-lens, upside-down design. They might have looked more than a little strange but there’s no question they helped him win the world snooked title in 1985. Perhaps the most unusual celebrity designer glasses wearer was comedy writer and performer Eric Sykes, who was never seen without his black horn rims. In fact his glasses never had any lenses in them, and were really a bone-resonating hearing aid.

Posted by fashion - August 19, 2009 at 7:08 pm

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