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Flexible flexon frames

February 4th, 2010

In the eyeglasses market, flexon frames are preferred by a large number of people because of their special properties. Flexon frames are made of flexon, a shape memory alloy of titanium. Flexon glasses are light and extremely flexible. Flexon frames can be bent to a significant degree. Their magic is that they can resume the original shape once released. According to statistics, flexon frames are 10 times more flexible than conventional metal frames. Another feature of flexon frames is lightness. Flexon glasses are 25% lighter than conventional glasses. The combination of these features makes flexon glasses comfortable, flexible and durable.

Marchon Eyewear bought flexon from the Beta Group in 1995 and used it to manufacture flexon frames and flexon glasses for years. Now flexon glasses are made in China, Japan and Italy. In addition to flexon glasses, Marchon Eyewear also distributes other brand glasses such as Calvin Klein, DKNY and Nautica. Currently, flexon frames are found in other famous brands. Marchon Eyewear adds flexon frames to its Nike Eyewear adult line, which targets the active pre-teen market. Maui Jim combines its patented PolarizedPlus lens technology with flexon frames.

Flexon glasses are suitable for men, women, teens, and children, especially for those who like peace of mind. Flexon frames are not limited to eyeglasses. They also can be found in flexon sunglasses and flexon clip-on designs. You can check local stores for flexon glasses or order online. Frames Direct has flexon frames in shapes and sizes for both women and men.

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How can women match your vogue eyeglasses with your other accessories?

February 3rd, 2010

Vogue eyeglasses are becoming the indispensable and integral part of human expression. Harmonious combination of trendy eyeglasses and other fashion elements will enhance your look and make you prominent in the social activities. Vogue eyeglasses, together with your clothes, belt, purse, earrings and necklace or even ring work concertedly to show the best part of your self.

The most important aspect is the color-matching. See what color your vogue eyeglasses are, and make sure the color of your funky eyeglasses coordinate with your other ornaments. Mostly they should be in the similar or close color family. Your stylish eyeglasses should also match the majority of your clothes in style and pattern, even in colors. Some young people live a diversified life in and off work, these people need more than two pieces of vogue eyeglasses to meet the different occasions.

Earrings are less conspicuous comparing with your vogue eyeglasses when people see you. The function of earrings is to accentuate your vogue eyeglasses both in color and shape. Necklaces are more prominent than earrings in matching with your vogue eyeglasses. Finer necklaces, instead of clunky ones, will harmonize with your vogue eyeglasses.

If you really have difficulties in finding out what the best matches are, please consult your friends or even personal image experts for advices.

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How to understand your prescription eyeglasses?

February 3rd, 2010

A pair of prescription eyeglasses is one that is custom made by an optician based on the written prescription by an eye doctor or optometrist. Prescription eyeglasses mainly functions as a corrective instrument to make the wearer see clearer. Prescription eyeglasses cure the blurred vision caused by the myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia.

Prescription eyeglasses must be made in compliance with the written prescription from eye doctors. Most of the eyeglasses prescriptions in the world are not uniform in forms, but the major contents are the same. A wearable prescription eyeglasses needs some basic numbers to follow, here is an example of eyeglasses prescription:

O.D. -4.00(SPH) -0.5(CYL) 105(Axis)

O.S. -3.50(SPH) -1.00(CYL) 140(Axis)

ADD: O.D. +2.00

O.S. +2.00

O.D.: Latin abbreviation for “Right Eye”

O.S.: Latin abbreviation for “Left Eye”

SHP: Abbreviation for Spherical, means the degree of myopia, hyperopia or presbyopia.

CYL: CYL refers to “Cylinder”, means the degree of astigmatism.

Axis: Axis is a number from 0 to 180 meaning the orientation of astigmatism.

ADD: ADD means the additional refractive power. For single vision prescription eyeglasses, it represents a single vision lens prescription to improve the near vision; for bifocal prescription eyeglasses this means the degrees for the reading portion.

more info: How to read and enter prescription

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The material of lens frame

February 2nd, 2010

Besides the style, the size, the gender distinction, the shape (full-frame, semi-frame or rimless) of lens frame, the material of lens frame is another critical consideration while eyeglasses wearers selecting their favorable pairs of lens frame eyeglasses. Lens frames can be made of generally three categories of materials: plastic, metal and unusual materials lens frame.

The commonly used types of plastic lens frames made of zly, nylon and cellulose acetate propionate (nylon-based). As different types of plastic do have their own features, the universal advantages of plastic lens frame lie in that it’s lightweight, relatively cheaper, and easy to manufacture. Drawbacks also exist so that certain group of people may reject plastic lens frames. Just to list some of them, fragile (easy to break), melting under extreme hot, sunlight-aging and color-fading etc..

Much more alternatives are available should you prefer metal lens frame, such as monel, titanium, beryllium, stainless steel, flexon (memory metal lens frame), aluminum and so on. Some of them are pure metals while others are mixtures of several metals, named alloys. Metal lens frame is mostly formal and classic thus suitable for businessmen and political leaders, most of which are strong, flexible, and corrosion-resistant and also provide colorful choices. However, for youngsters, metal lens frames may be dull, old-fashioned and lack of innovation.

Extraordinary materials for lens frames also occupy certain market proportion, because they meet the unusual tastes of style pursuers. Don’t be curious if you discover lens frames made of silver, gold, wood, bone, buffalo horn, leather and even stone, for sometimes they seize the most attractive places of eyeglasses retailers.

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English scientist Roger Bacon and eye glasses

February 2nd, 2010

On the matter of the invention of eye glasses, we all know that no specific person could be credited. The history of eye glasses would not be integral if we forget a famous name—–Roger Bacon.

Roger Bacon, an English scientist in 13^th century, found many people in the country could not read because of poor eye sight. Bacon thought of helping them. He tried and experimented to make eye glasses for a long time but ended with failure.

One day after rain, Bacon was strolling in the back yard and found the cobweb over the tree leaves was perched with many rain drops. When Bacon bended down to see these rain drops, he found the streak and tiny hair on the leaves could be seen clearer and be enlarged. He realized these rain drops were magnifying leaves. Soon Bacon went home and through a lot of efforts he finally found the prototype of “eye glasses”.

In 1268 Roger Bacon claimed that the lenses he found could be used on the “eye glasses” for correction purpose. Years later the usage of eye glasses was advised. Since then, many Italian and Spanish were added to the name list of contributors on the progress of eye glasses.

Today we saw many types of eye glasses which help improve our life in great deal. This reminds us of Roger Bacon for his efforts in inventing eye glasses

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Rimless and semi rimless eyeglasses

January 31st, 2010

Unlike the rimless eyeglasses that totally do not have the frames to hold the lenses, semi rimless eyeglasses have the upper part of the frame, while the bottom part is rimless, so sometimes it is also called half-rimless eyeglasses.

As the strength for holding the whole pair of rimless eyeglasses comes from the lens itself, we need to strongest lenses such as polycarbonate and other high index lenses. But for semi rimless eyeglasses, it is not a problem to resin lenses like CR-39, as the top portion of the frame and the bottom nylon string can hold the lenses tightly through the groove the edge of lenses.

Semi rimless glasses are normally a bit heavier in weight than rimless eyeglasses. Furthermore, as rimless eyeglasses have no any frame in front of eyes, therefore the wearer’s eyes can be seen more than semi rimless glasses. Another biggest advantage of rimless eyeglasses is that you do not need to limit the shape of lenses to the one which is displayed to you in the stores. You can virtually choose any shape you like to fit your face and persona. This is supposed to be the hottest point of selecting rimless eyeglasses. For semi rimless glasses, even the bottom part is also rimless, but mostly you do not have the freedom to choose the shape for the lower part only, as the bottom part needs to match the upper shape which is determined by the frame.

Men's memory metal semi-rimless frame eyeglasses

Women's mixed materials partially rimmed frame eyeglasses

Unisex mixed material rimless eyeglasses

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Make sure your optical glass made correctly

January 29th, 2010

If you wear a pair of optical glasses, make sure you have a pair of correct optical glass is very important. A pair of ill-suited optical glasses may make your uncomfortable when you wear it. What is more, your eyes will get worse and worse with a pair of improper optical glass. So how to find out if your optical glasses is made correctly? Here are some tips.

If you got your optical glasses at a retail chain, you can let their optician double check the optical glass for accuracy. In some degrees, you may not trust that the optician will give you a proper service because of the optician works for the same company. If you have this kind of worries, you can take your optical glasses to another retail chain which is the competitor of the one you buy the optical glass, commonly, they will give you a satisfactory optical glasses inspection.

If you got your optical glass from internet, you had better take your optical glasses to a local retail store for double check. As you know, a big defect of shopping online is that you cannot try optical glasses properly, and they make the optical glass according the prescription you offered. The optician in local chain will give you a pertinent diagnosis and maybe remake the lenses due to error made by the online shop where you bought your optical glass.

When you find out that your optical glasses are not made correctly, you can go to the place where you bought the optical eyeglass to have your optical glass checked or even remade. Sometimes, when people buy a new pair of optical glasses, they may take a few days to adjust to it, which is really common. But if you are sure your optical glass made incorrectly, you had better give the optical glasses to an optician to adjust to fit you.

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Advantages of online eyeglasses

January 27th, 2010

Online eyeglasses are gaining more and more popularity. The market channel and operating mode of online eyeglasses are profoundly different with that of eyeglasses in traditional eyewear stores. Under the conventional mode, eye wearers must go to eyewear stores and select their favorite frames, lens. When online eye glasses appear, everything becomes simple and convenient. Online eyeglasses have many advantages.

The most widely acknowledged advantage of online eye glasses is that they are cheap. There is a popular website for online eyeglasses Firmoo.com. It offers online eyeglasses even classified by their prices, such as $8 eyeglasses, $9.95 eyeglasses etc. Customers will always get online eye glasses that are much cheaper than the same ones from the eyeglasses stores. More importantly, these cheap online eyeglasses sacrifice no quality and variety.

Online eye glasses offer much more colorful choices. Nowadays, eyeglasses stores are chained ones. However, most of the glasses stores have a limitation in types since the area of any location is limited and the rent fee is expensive. When it comes to online eyeglasses, the huge capacity of website can accommodate as many eyeglasses as possible.

Buying online eye glasses is more freely. Once entering an eyewear store, the shop assistant will be your side and makes sorts of recommendation. Some people don’t like it. The worse condition is that if you walk out of the shop without buying one, the face of shop staff changes. Online eyeglasses never bother you because every browse is under your control. You can just compare different online eye glasses sites and make a decision of your favorite freely.

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The principle of optical eyeglasses

January 26th, 2010

Modern eyeglasses are frames with two lenses worn in front of the eyes. The eyeglasses are usually braced by pads on the bridge of the nose and temples placed over the ears. Eyeglasses are normally designed for the purpose of vision correction, eye protection, viewing visual information or fashion and aesthetic values. Optical eyeglasses are designed mainly for vision correction.

Optical eyeglasses’ frames are commonly made from metal or plastic. And the lenses of optical eyeglasses can be made from glass or transparent plastic, such as CR-39 or polycarbonate. Whatever kind of materials the lenses made from, the principle of optical eyeglasses is similar.

The optical eyeglasses’ lens is an optical device with perfect or approximate axial symmetry which can converge or diverge the light.

Most optical eyeglasses are spherical lenses, the two surfaces of which are parts of the surfaces of spheres, with the lens axis ideally perpendicular to both surfaces. Lenses are classified by the curvature of the two optical surfaces. The two surfaces of the lens can be both convex, both concave, one flat and one convex, one flat and one concave, or with one convex and one concave. The last one, called convex-concave or meniscus, is the type of lens that is most commonly used in optical eyeglasses.

Optical eyeglasses can be either positive or negative, depending on the curvatures of the two surfaces. Negative optical eyeglasses have steeper concave surfaces and will be thinner at the centre than at the periphery. This type of optical eyeglasses is used for correcting nearsightedness. Conversely, positive optical eyeglasses have steeper convex surfaces and will be thicker at the centre than at the periphery, and it is for presbyopia.

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Optical frame for face shape

January 22nd, 2010

Optical frame always comes in all kinds of materials and fashions, which provide vast choices. Since individuals may have different face shapes, the size of optical frames is also very important, including the lens frame size, the length of temples, the proportions of different parts etc… The proper size of optical frame that fits your face will provide you with both natural looks and most comfort. People’s faces are sorted into several general shapes, and then different optical frames are needed.

Oval face shape has balanced proportions so that it imposes no particular requirement on optical frame. Just choose optical frames that are as wide as the broadest part of the face in order to keep its natural balance. You can pay more attention to the color of the optical frame that matches your clothes and skin.

Round face has almost the same proportion in width and length. The tip of optical frame selection is to make the face slightly thinner and longer and create some angles. Rectangular or geometric shaped optical frames are the right choices.

People with diamond face shape should be careful when choosing optical frame. You need to bring out the cheekbones and highlight the eyes. So optical frames that are not wider than your cheekbones will deemphasize the width in the middle of your face and balance the rest part.

A square face has hard angles because of the strong jaw line and broad forehead. Your optical frame should soften angles of this face shape. Oval, round or even slightly angular optical frames are suitable.

Remember to choose the right optical frame for your face shape, popular styles do not always suit you.