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The importance of frames for eyeglasses

August 1st, 2010 by Jay Furlong No comments »

It is feasible to divide a typical pair of eyeglasses into a frame and two lenses. The functionalities of prescription and Plano eyeglasses or sunglasses all rely on the optical lenses that are fitted into the frame. In fact, the eye-related optical features are contributed by eyeglass lenses made from different materials like traditional and modern plastics as well as glass. While optical lenses determine optical benefits, frames for eyeglasses are related with many more aspects and more decisive to eyewear appearance. The importance of eyeglasses lenses should never be overlooked because they are the essential part that offers vision correction or eye protection against harmful rays or dangerous particles. This was especially true decades ago when most people focused on eyewear functionality. But it is also necessary to realize the increasing importance of eyeglass frames.

To some extent, optical lenses are not focus because modern lens technologies can get patients’ visual needs met without much effort. With this improvement, modern eyeglass users benefit a lot that they are able to pay more attention to personal appearance with the glasses. In this mainstream trend, frames for eyeglasses are gaining more and more attraction. First of all, frame color, frame size, frame shape and style determine the overall effect of the eyewear that stay on a wearer’s face. Selecting a right frame by considering all these factors respectively is very important. For instance, the frame shape should contrast with the facial shape. The frame color should repeat the wearer’s personal coloring. And frame size and face size should mainly be in scale. Rimless and semi-rimless frame styles are more popular among young people.

The importance of frames for eyeglasses does not lie only in eyewear appearance, but also in eyewear quality. The material used in an eyeglass frame determines mainly eyewear quality. For example, plastic frames are more flexible but they are fragile. Regular metals are strong but have too much weight. In recent decades, those quality materials used in eyeglass frames have superior properties like durability, flexibility and lightness. Right options include stainless steel, titanium and memory metal.

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Attractive red sunglasses

July 29th, 2010 by Richard Schneider No comments »

Red sunglasses are sunglasses with red frame or red tinted lenses. People loving red is so pleased with those various type of red sunglasses in the market. Now nearly all kinds of red sunglasses are available from many brands. Red sunglasses can be in large frames and intermediate frames.

Red framed sunglasses usually go along with black tinted lenses. This effect is truly classic, because red and black has long been a classic match. The frame may be dark red, red or just pink, which create slightly differences. The other kind is sunglasses with red tinted lenses but the frame is not red colored. These lenses of red sunglasses can intensify contrast in partly cloudy and sunny days. Of course the red tint will never affect your clear vision.

Red sunglasses fall into the warm series of colored sunglasses and match well with warm skin, warm eyes and warm hair. So they are suitable for people with a warm coloring. In addition to their UV protection, red sunglasses have just become a fashion without much reason.

What do Lindsay Lohan and Sienna Miller have in common? They both wear the hot fashion of red sunglasses. It is true that red sunglasses are a fast growing trend within Hollywood. Movie stars wear these sunglasses both in movies and daily lives. As a result, red sunglasses have always been a big seller at most of the stores near Hollywood. The Ray Ban Wayfarer RB 2140 red sunglasses is just one of the most popular styles. Aviators also offer a variety of red sunglasses that loved by customers.

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Categories of glasses

July 29th, 2010 by Richard Schneider No comments »

Glasses have two major functions: vision correction and eye protection.

For vision correction, we have glasses for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. For presbyopia people, we have bifocal glasses. Recently Oxford University professor Joshua Silver invented a self-adjustable glasses using silicon oil in a thin plastic reservoir as lenses. This invention brings new hope for the poor people in the world to see the clearer world.

There are many types of glasses which are for protection purpose. Sunglasses are the most typical glasses for protecting eyes from UV rays and strong lights. Sports glasses like basketball glasses and ski goggles are two basic ones. Basketball glasses prevent sports participants from being injured. These glasses can also be worn in other sports events such as football, volleyball, tennis and safari activities. Ski goggles prevent eyes from the extensive harm of UV rays reflected by the snow and possible injuries caused by bumping.

In industrial world, there are some special glasses for field protection. For example welders need to wear special shield to prevent exposure to extra strong arc.

Modern technology brings us a brand new invisible “glasses” called contact lenses. Contact lenses free people from the inconveniences of wearing spectacles and return the natural facial beauty to the wearers.

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Be careful of wraparound Rx sunglasses

July 29th, 2010 by Michael Bansal No comments »

In order to achieve a maximum degree of eye coverage, sunwear manufacturers typically take a wraparound lens or frame design. In this case, the lenses will be made with extreme curves, especially at the edge. This is really a favorable design because related users can protect their eyes as much as possible. Each pair of these quality sunglasses can shield nearly the whole lens socket from all angles. Today, this wraparound design using extremely curved lenses are taken by almost all notable sunwear brands like Native, Ray Ban, Smith, Bolle and Oakley, just to name a few. What’s more, some people may have heard of wraparound Rx sunglasses. This term refers to wraparound sunglasses that have specific prescriptions for vision correction. From another perspective, most people would suppose that they are only the natural and typical form of prescription sunglasses. This is only partially true. Customers who are interested in these products should take additional consideration.

It is true that there is an increasingly number of customers who appreciate greatly the benefits brought by prescription sunglasses or tinted eyeglasses. UV protection and vision correction are combined within a single eyewear. For folks regularly participating in outdoor activities with poor eyesight, it is hard to point out that which of the above functions provided by Rx sunwear is more important. UV protective lenses are quite essential to fight against hazardous ultraviolet rays. In this consideration, a wraparound lens design discussed before should be the first choice. However, the problem is that this wraparound design involves inevitably extreme lens curves, which in turn typically distort the wearer’s vision. With this explanation, it is understandable that some people consider wraparound Rx sunglasses as a product of dilemma.

The availability of these sunglasses is quite limited because of this confliction between the wraparound design and corrective vision distortion. The currently situation in the market of wraparound Rx sunglasses is that only a few manufacturers provide these products yet with less extreme curves. What does this mean? When certain lens powers should be successfully fitted into sunwear lenses, it is inevitable to compromise in different degrees the wraparound curves. Moreover, only a limited prescription range has been typically available.

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Advantages of polycarbonate eyeglasses

July 29th, 2010 by Michael Bansal No comments »

Eyeglasses sunglasses are allowed to be made with different frame and lens materials. The frame is supposed to hold the lenses stably and thus needs to be made with high quality. Meanwhile, eyeglass lenses involve a larger area and they are also important in terms of eye protection. In outdoor activities or sports involving risky factors, the lenses are even the key part that offers adequate protection. As a result, it is very important to choose an appropriate lens material, since eye protection is also critical in daily life. With the continuous development of lens technology, optional lens materials contain mainly regular plastics, glass and new forms of plastics. Glass is very rarely used in recent years because of its unpleasant weight. Regular plastics are still acceptable but are losing popularity due to their lack of superior optical features. Polycarbonate eyeglasses and glasses made of high index lenses are the most popular.

New forms of plastics including polycarbonate and high index materials have some advantages over traditional lens materials and this explains their dominant role in the current market. In particular, people with a strong prescription are perfect users of high index lenses because this material will never bring an excessive lens thickness. Well, our focus is polycarbonate eyeglasses because they have even more benefits. In general, polycarbonate lenses are thinner and lighter than lenses made of regular plastics. Used in sunglasses, polycarbonate lenses are perfect because they offer 100% UV protection by the lens material itself. This is not the end. Lenses made of polycarbonate are up to 10 times more impact-resistant than plastic or glass lenses.

Natural UV protection, lightness, thinness and extreme impact resistance make polycarbonate lenses an unparalleled option. It is nearly impossible to find another lens material with so many advantages. And these benefits lead to the prevailing role maintained by polycarbonate eyeglasses, especially among children and people who like outdoor sports. Children usually spend much time outdoors and need proper UV protection. Of course, lightweight polycarbonate lenses also help reducing the weight over children’s faces. For the second group, it is the valuable impact resistance that matters. Some sports involve flying objects or dangerous particles, making the use of impact resistant lenses a necessity.

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Reading Sunglasses—-The Perfect Combination

July 28th, 2010 by Scott Mozayeni No comments »

Have you ever bothered to be away from sunglasses for fashion because of nearsightedness? Have you ever felt annoyed about not seeing clearly when wearing a pair of sunglasses? Now, reading sunglasses are right here to solve all those problems. As the name suggest, reading sunglasses are a perfect combination of reading glasses and sunglasses.

Reading sun glasses apply a kind of special optical feature, which offers the same refractive capability to make reading comfortable and are also colored or tinted to protect eyes from intense light and UV. Of course there are ways for regular glasses to function the same with reading sunglasses, for example, using clips on shades over reading glasses, but they really look not so cool and instead they appear cumbersome while reading sunglasses is another thing. A variety of styles, from exquisite small-frame to over-sized shades, are available.

Therefore, we may conclude that reading sun glasses, a truly fusion of fashion and function, should be the best choice for those who are in requirement of both near vision and eye protection. With reading sunglasses, you can lying on the beach while reading a book, enjoy a beautiful day with sea breezing; with reading sunglasses, you can sit in the park with friends playing cards; with reading sunglasses, you don’t have to take another set of near vision reading glasses at any time. Just a pair of reading sun glasses can save you so much trouble. Isn’t it fantastic?

If there is something needing reminding, that should be picking the brown ones for best choices, for brown reading sun glasses can best perform to keep eyes from extra light with the least distortion.

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Reflective mirrored sunglasses

July 28th, 2010 by Scott Mozayeni No comments »

Mirrored sunglasses have a special mirror coating on the outside of the lenses so that they are also named mirror lens sunglasses. With such a mirror coating, the lens just looks like a small mirror. Certainly, mirrored sunglasses are never created for personal grooming.

The more suggestive name of mirror coating is reflective coating. Reflective coatings on mirrored sunglasses can reflect a significant portion of light from passing through the lenses. The estimated percentage is between 10 and 60. For mirror lens sunglasses, the reflective coating is typically applied on the front surface. This design on mirrored sunglasses reduces light absorption by the lenses.

Besides light-blocking, mirror lens sunglasses also have psychological effects. Since mirrored sunglasses can reflect light like a mirror, other people can not see your eyes through the lenses. This is the most significant difference between mirror lens sunglasses and other sunglasses, both tinted and non-tinted. In this way, these sunglasses help people avoid direct eye contact, which is necessary in many situations. This function of mirrored sunglasses is similar with that of dark or black eyeglasses.

Due to their light reflective property, mirrored sunglasses are particularly helpful in brighter conditions. So, if you like fishing on water or skiing on sunny days, you always need a pair of mirror lens sunglasses. Mirror lens sunglasses have gained extreme popularity among US police officers so that they are even called “cop shades”.

Mirror lens sunglasses smudge easier than regular sunglasses that they require more frequent cleaning as well as special cleaning manner. To prevent rubbing off the mirror on the lenses, you should use tissues.

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Unisex sunglasses for both men and women

July 28th, 2010 by Connie Robertson No comments »

Sunglasses are one of the most popular accessories in each summer. And there are sunshades for men, women and a combination of them. Unisex means something that is intended for or used by both men and women. In fact, the division of sunglasses into three categories is equal to the classification in prescription eyeglasses. And this classification approach is to a large degree based on some fundamental differences between men and women. It is commonly supposed that these two different groups usually have their own tastes, requirements or preference over a typical product. Sunglass designers also follow this thought. But the development and prevalence of unisex sunglasses and eyeglasses indicate an interesting change in this world. There are many manufacturers producing eyewear products that are suitable for both men and women.

The trend of developing or creating unisex styles is not limited to the eyewear world. In fact many other industries also witness the rise of unisex products. In recent years, the fashion world has seen men’s and women’s clothing and accessories taking cues from each other. The heyday of unisex styles is particularly noticeable in the sunglass industry. In traditional, women’s sunglasses usually come in colorful designs, which take use of various lens tints and delicate details. And men’s sunglasses focus mostly on functionality improvement. However, that philosophy has changes greatly in the previous years. Sunglasses tend to mix those respective points, testified by unisex sunglasses. These unisex products are designed to be appealing to male and female customers. Nowadays they are quite popular and a large number of local and online eyewear shops even maintain exclusive sections of unisex models.

Unisex sunglasses and eyeglasses follow some styling trends in recent years. Plastic frames in oval and elongated rectangular shapes are commonly applied by sunwear manufacturers. Unisex sunglasses also widely take use semi-rimless style with lenses cut in oval shapes. Oversized frames are gaining popularity among both male and female sunwear users thus they are a common design in unisex models. Unisex sunwear also widely comes in beautifully designed, clean and thin metal frames.

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Two forms of non prescription eyeglasses

July 28th, 2010 by Connie Robertson No comments »

Prescription eyeglasses will hardly cause any misconception that they refer to eyeglasses that can be got only by customers who have a valid prescription given by an eye care practitioner. Interpreting the meaning of the words, non prescription eyeglasses are generally the opposite entity of prescription glasses. Well, it is absolutely right to interpret these glasses as items that can be bought without a prescription. But a further detail is that there are two forms that meet this definition. Regular sunglasses and fashion glasses are sometimes considered as “fake” glasses because they do not use corrective lenses. This is the first form of non prescription eyewear and the other form covers vision-corrective glasses that are acquired illegally without a prescription. Believe it or not, eyewear products of the second form do exist and involve a large market.

As the major definition of non prescription eyeglasses, fashion glasses including mainly non-prescription sunglasses have been widely used in the past several decades. And lots of people wear these glasses for many years without any side effects. Using plain glass or plastic lenses, these Plano eyeglasses have enjoyed a long-term popularity among people who have not got any sight effects. For this group of individuals, a pair of non-prescription eyewear is almost an accessory. Some people may want to know the reasonableness of this prevalence. Well, their common consideration is to pursue a fashionable look, even if there is no vision problem needed to be corrected. Today, contact lenses and laser eye surgeries have been quite technologically mature. But the truth is that the eyewear market still covers a majority of related patients. This prevailing pursuit represents a significant change in eyewear industry that eyewear users will never be called a four-eye, a nerd or a geek.

The second definition of non prescription eyeglasses is actually seldom discussed. But it is necessary to remind certain patients of its existence. Reading glasses are widely needed by people who are over 40 years old. But there are lots of pre-made reading glasses that can be got without a prescription. Many shops sell these glasses on an over-the-counter basis. For the eyes’ sake, these products should be avoided.

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Retro glasses half century ago become popular again

July 27th, 2010 by Ray Didia No comments »

Half century ago, around 1950s, the eyewear industry reached its maturity with the development and introduction of new materials and new designs. Even by today, the most wanted retro glasses is from 1950s. Especially for those fashion fans, what they hanker for is 50s retro glasses. They wear retro eyewear for fashion expressions.

One good example of 50s retro glasses for men are the bold frames. Men in the 1950s wore thicker and wider frames glasses which are now in style again. These men’s retro glasses gained popularity again in 1990s, and some twenty years later, they are in vogue now even.

When talking about the retro eyewear for women from 1950s, the cat eye retro glasses will always be the topic. These upswept styles with the frame ends arched upward brought the beauty and fashion for the women in 1950s, and now these retro glasses are back in fashion once again. Inspired by the 50s classic retro glasses more and more styles have been developed.

Retro glasses are available in two forms. One type of retro eyewear is the authentic vintage glasses from the old time, the other can be the copies with the look of retro glasses but actually newly-made eyeglasses frames. The only thing needing to be cautious is that opticians really need pay special attention to put the lenses into the retro eyewear frames.

Retro glasses can be fitted as everyday use eyeglasses or for reading glasses only. Some creative fashion lovers even have the retro eyewear fitted with photochromic lenses and make the retro glasses as a pair of prescription sunglasses.

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