Frighteningly Large Celebrity Sunglasses

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Make Glasses a Part of Your Look

How to Make Your Glasses Part of Your 'Look'
By Larry Milton

Although wearing glasses can be a pain, if you do things right, they become a part of your ensemble and soon you won't be able to picture yourself without them! If you wear glasses, it's important to pick a pair that will suit your personality and your style so they match.

Many people resent getting glasses and do everything they can to mitigate the damage to appearance such as using contact lenses or getting laser eye surgery. However, if you are careful about the glasses you choose, you can make them a part of your appearance and use them to add to your looks instead of detracting from them. There are a few ways to do this and you should consider it carefully before immediately doing everything you can to get rid of them.

Consider the Shape of Your Face

Glasses come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and so do faces. Overly round glasses will make some people look bat-eyed while other people will have accentuated eyes from the same pair. It boils down to the shape of your face. There are roughly seven shapes of faces and when you are choosing glasses, you are doing with an eye to making your face appear more proportional and balanced which means choosing a contrasting pair of glasses. For example, if you have a round face, you should choose glasses that are angular and narrow with a clear bridge. Rectangular glasses will work best. If you have an oblong face, consider glasses that are deeper than they are wide and have a short bridge. If you're uncertain, ask your optometrist what seems most suitable.

Coloring

Your glasses should accentuate your natural coloring and for this, consider your skin tone, your eye color and your hair color. These things fall into two categories-warm or cool and your glasses will have to match. For example, blue eyes tend to be cool, skin tone can be cool or warm (look around your eyes; if it's bluish, you're cool) and hair color such as brown is usually warm. Then make sure you choose frame colors to match. Red frames will suit warm coloring best while blue will suit cooler tones best.

Designer Glasses?

There is always a temptation to buy designer glasses; they look neat on the rack and there is always the feeling that designer is better. However, in the case of glasses, designer mostly means an extra hundred dollars tacked on your bill, if not more. If you can afford designer glasses, then go for it since they are very good looking, but if not, you can find perfectly good glasses that will look nice on you without resorting to the high brands. Te important thing is that the glasses work with your eyes and that they will look good on you.

Your optometrist can help you pick out the size and color of glasses that will suit you best, so make sure to ask if you are having trouble. Your glasses don't have to be expensive designer glasses either; the important thing is that they are a color and shape that will best suit your face and the rest of you as well and of course that they will work! So don't feel as though you are chained to something that will make you look bad; properly chosen glasses will be an accessory as well as a necessity, not just something to be put up with and replaced at the earliest opportunity.

Larry Milton runs a highly successful team of eye doctors in Austin. If you need an Austin LASIK Surgeon then you should visit his practice.

Benefits of Polarized Sunglasses

Polarized Sunglasses - How They're Made and Their Benefits
By Kenny VanWormer

 What is Polarization

Polarization is when light strikes a surface. All the photons are vibrating in one direction instead of in random directions. The light travels from 'pole to pole' along that plane. This is what causes the glare off of shiny objects like Automobiles, chrome, and the shiny reflection off of water. That's what causes the mirror like effect on top of water that prevents you from seeing through the water's surface. This glare distorts the color of objects and makes them harder to distinguish.

What does a polarized lens do

Polarized lenses work by filtering the waves of light by absorbing some of the reflected glare while letting some of the other light waves to pass through them. One way to think of how a polarized lens would work is to think of the Polarized lens as a window blind. A window blind will block light that strikes it from certain angles, while allowing light to pass through from other angles. A polarizing lens will work when it is positioned at a 90 degree angle to the source of the glare. Polarized sunglasses are designed to filter out horizontal light and the polarized lenses are mounted vertically in the frames and they must be carefully aligned so they will filter out the light waves.

How polarized lenses work

The first polarized lenses were a piece of polarizing film sandwiched between two layers of flat glass. Because glass lenses are so heavy, thinner and lighter plastic and polycarbonate lenses have become so popular.

Early polarized sunglasses had problems with delamination, which is the separation of the polarizing film from the glass or plastic lenses. The making of modern lenses have solved this problem, the polarizing film is suspended inside the mold and the plastic is melted and poured in. The plastic then hardens around the piece of suspended polarized film, creating a solid material, rather than a layered one. Polycarbonate lenses are injection molded, so they are made a little differently. The heat from the injection molding would destroy the polarizing film, so the polarizing film is applied to the front of the lens and covered with a scratch resistant coating. Polycarbonate lenses are the lightest and thinnest polarized lenses available.

Who benefits from polarized sunglasses

Polarized lenses work well for boaters, fishermen, skiers, golfers, bikers, and joggers, who require a clearer view and elimination of glare. These sunglasses when used for driving, can reduce the glare that comes off the car or the surface of a road. Polarized sunglasses can also be used indoors by light sensitive people. While ordinary tinted lenses reduce brightness, only polarized lenses eliminate glare. While the first polarized sunglasses were used mainly by sportsmen, the general public has realized its many benefits, and now they have become so popular.

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