Jan

3

Crazy Sunglasses Designs this Winter

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Designers around the globe are being affected by S.A.D (seasonal affective disorder). They are cooped up in their drafting rooms and design centers scribbling insane drawings of cartoon faces with even more cartoon sunglasses. Take, for instance, the Prada SPR-27NS sunglasses (image left) as seen on Ashley Olsen. If this isn’t the result of winter insanity we’re not sure what is. This design would be more suited for Cruella Deville than for a pretty girl like Ashley. She looks like a character right out of a Disney cartoon, the wicked, rich step sister in Cinderella or the daughter of the boss in The Devil Wears Prada. Either way, the design isn’t fit for public consumption. Perhaps a lifetime on the silver screen makes it harder for stars to remember which world is reality, and which world it’s okay to dress up like a cartoon in.


But Ashley Olsen isn’t alone. Lady Gaga is going ever more strange with her eyewear. That’s nothing new, of course, but what is unique is that she is able to find crazy designs on the market to suit her insane persona. These sunglasses are for sale to the general public, making me wonder if the designers were mad when the sent these models to the factory for manufacture. Check out these Dejour sunglasses (image right) or the even sillier Sunetttes sunglasses Lady Gaga wore in public recently that made her look like a giant beetle.
We’re not sure what happened to the designers of these otherwise able and popular brands, but we’re hoping that when the snow thaws they regain their senses and return to producing eyewear the mass public can wear without looking too foolish.

Oct

18

Red, the color of love, rage and fashion

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It’s hard to imagine a world without red. Red Jimmy Choo, red Prada, a cycling community without red cycling pants and Nike shades. Red is defiantly the color of passion, rage and love … and most importantly, of high fashion.

Colors mean different things to different people. But whenever you think of high fashion you think of red. There is not only a shortage of red in the world aside from fashion and passion, but you’ll find it difficult to dress in higher fashion without the color red. Isn’t that what mot guards wear? Isn’t it what armies wear to signal their excellence? There is no doubt that red is the single most emotional color in the spectrum.

Some of the best brands for red include Prada, Jimmy Choo, Alexander McQueen, Ed Hardy and Dior. Any of these brands will have lush, passionate red designs that will impress your friends, and look snazzy with any wardrobe. For sports wear, Nike does it unparalleled in terms of bright red hues and simple, clean lines. For simple designs that really pop, this is the brand to go for sporty looks. You’ll find nothing compares to a simple pair of Nike shades, and they have eyeglasses, too. You can stay sporty year round.

Wearing red can signal a lot of things, but one thing it means for sure is confidence. Slip into something red and your eyes pop, your confidence boosts and people see a slight tilt in the chin. Perhaps that is why it’s the color of fashion.

Oct

13

Green: The Color of Autumn

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Everyone is going green these days, and not just because of the environment. We’re talking green fashion. Not your neon, childish hues, but the soft, olive drab green or the very European Ikea green-yellow that is the color of young grass in hot summer. Green accessories like the sexy Ralph Lauren olive eyeglasses, are especially popular this autumn, as are bracelets in different shades of green, and even green make-up.

They say geniuses choose green, but more than that, it’s the color of extreme calm, comfort and of course nature. Psychiatrists decorate their offices in shades of green, and hospitals are often slathered in green. It’s no coincidence that emergency room clothing is green. And uncomfortable situations are always shrouded in shades of green. Dental smocks, toothpaste, thread for stitches, etc. The inverse of green is used to induce the opposite emotional stirrings. Red is used to acknowledge danger, alarm, authority and attention- the opposite of the calming effects of green. Perhaps all of these things combines are why green is so popular after a year of extreme global turmoil and financial difficulty.

Some of the best ways to wear green include accessories, obviously, but you’ll also find shades of green appropriate for major clothing items like jackets and shoes. Green pants don’t look natural, they make people think of upside down trees. Which confuses the brain and thus not many can pull of green on the bottom half. Most bottoms halves need to be heavier than the top to provide a foundation for color. Blacks, blues, browns and tans accomplish this.

Sep

7

Why glasses make you look older

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It’s a sad fact that glasses make you look older. It’s a rare shape and face structure that can handle glasses without looking more dignified and aged. But why is that? Why do men look slightly older when the slip into Serengeti shades, or women when they put on Prada sunglasses or Ralph Lauren glasses? Let’s explore.

Glasses make you look smarter. That’s why Hollywood directors are constantly putting their intelligent characters in glasses to signal to the audience to keep an eye out for a witty statement or a smart thought. Hollywood takes our perceptions of the world and plays them back to us.

Why does Hollywood put all of their bad guys in new, innovative or single-edition sunglasses? Perhaps because we think that the villains around us are strange, inhuman or outside the mainstream. We don’t want to think that people like us, who live in our circle of “regular” thought would be capable of evil. This is a subtle signal but shows that when we wear crazy glasses in public people may be slightly distrustful of us. Hollywood is good at conditioning people to think in a certain way.

Back to the question of age. Looking older is achieved through glasses because we have the perception that older people lose their sight. This is true, more old people need prescription glasses than youths. But still, it has the effect of adding dignity and charm as well as age. For job interviews and other important meetings glasses are a good way to get a touch of respect.

Feb

22

Longevity and Best Sensory Practices

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Long life isn’t an end in and of itself, but to achieve long life with good health would be a supreme achievement. One of the things that simply wears out with time are your eyes, which is unfortunate but true. Anyone over 50 knows that first hand. There are steps you can take to ensure your eyes remain as healthy as possible for as long as possible, even if you already require contact lenses like Focus lenses or eyeglasses.

First, don’t stare at the sun. Don’t stare at a TV screen or computer screen for hours on end without breaks. Don’t look at light bulbs while turned on, don’t go to clubs with strobe lights. Hopefully you’ve picked up on a trend here—light damages your eyes with prolonged exposure or depending on the severity of the light.

Second, you can do exercises for your eyes to keep them healthy and strong, just like you do exercises for your body. When you wake up, your eyes have rested and need a bit of a stretch, look in all directions without moving your head, stretch out your eyelids by widening and squinting.

If you live in a city, you’ll have pollution accosting your eyes all day long, and in any home indoor pollution can cause damage to the eye. Saline solution in the form of eye drops can alleviate this, and its wise to carry with you to flush out the eyes from time to time throughout the day. You’ll feel rejuvenated and the dust and pollution won’t be rolling around on your eyeballs all day waiting for your nightly face wash.

Feb

15

Scratch, UV and Reflection Resistant Coatings for Glasses

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Most online stores allow you to choose how many coatings you want on your lenses and what kind of lens material you want. This especially applies for prescription lenses. For example, if you wanted a pair of designer Juicy Couture eyeglasses you might at first thing that you won’t be able to get the lens material and coatings you want. If the online store if good, you’ll be able to get what you want. The exception usually being that if your prescription is quite severe some lens materials would be less efficient for you.

First, you can get high-end polycarbonate lenses, which have in most cases proven to be the best for prescription glasses. They are durable and more scratch and impact resistant than plastic, and much lighter and more versatile than glass. Polycarbonate lenses are the best on the market, and are the standard with most eyeglasses.

Most places provide the option to get anti-scratch coatings applied to your already durable polycarbonate lenses. This is a smart move. You’ll also want anti-reflective coatings that reduce unwanted reflections and provide the clearest possible vision. Finally, if your glasses and sunglasses are not offering 100% UV protection then what good are they. Even if you don’t have sunglasses when outdoors your eyeglasses should be offering some protection.

You can also have your lenses polarized, or have tinted or transition lenses installed in the frames you choose. These extra modifications cost extra, but in the long run they provide a great deal in terms of utility and fashion.

Jan

14

Extreme Colors on Eyewear

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Its 2011 and you need to snap out of it. Stop buying simple and drab accessories and make this your year. Its annoying to see a beautiful person in drab clothing and outdated or low-quality accessories and sunglasses. First, with your beautiful good looks why would you hide your face behind low-grade eyewear? Think bigger, think Prada or Versace. You really shouldn’t buy crappy eyewear—your face is the first thing others see on you so stop treating yourself like you don’t deserve the best and get off your butt and remake your image. You need color, and you need it fast!

Color splash time! Let down your hair and stare into a mirror for a while. You need to come up with some sort of idea about your perfect look. The more you stare, the more ideas you’ll come up with. First of all, look at your skin and eye color and start thinking about colors that will compliment you. Pull out a few swatches of clothing or items of different colors to hold up to your face. You’ll notice that different colors make your skin and hair look different. If you stare long enough you’ll find the color that works for you. And once you have that color, you can use it on your eyewear to really make your eyes pop and your hair shine.

Designer sunglasses and eyeglasses are the perfect way to treat yourself to something nice that will keep on giving all year long. Think big , get a brand name and get yourself out of your drab colors and hues and into a whole new look.

Jan

10

Why Some Animals Fear Humans in Glasses

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Some domestic animals are terrified of humans who wear glasses. It seems to affect only some animals, especially animals who haven’t been raised around people who wear glasses. It can be explained, however. Whether you are wearing your designer Ralph Lauren eyeglasses or your husband walks in wearing his favorite Serengeti sunglasses, the cat seems to be more timid, scared or downright hostile to people in eyewear.

Animals are very in tune with nature and, as a result, if they dislike someone for any reason they may react with fear, hostility or even agitation. If they dislike someone, there isn’t much you can do. However, if the distaste comes from eyeglasses simply removing them around the pet for a few weeks and testing the pets reaction may prove whether it’s the eyewear or the person.

One possible explanation for this is that cats are very in tune with their own bodies and are aware that your eyewear are not a part of you or who you are. They see it as you holding something over your face or something attaching itself to you. Animals hate collars, and they see your eyewear as a collar of sorts—an unnatural addition that they can’t explain.

A second explanation could be that the vet who administers painful shots, ear cleanings and more wears glasses and has a metallic smell. An innate fear of something that has traits similar to something else you fear is only to be expected.

Jan

3

High Fashion Eyewear

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High fashion eyewear is all the rage in Europe’s largest cities. From London to Paris, Milan and Barcelona—you’ll find many of the hottest women in Europe’s hottest cities wearing some of the same high fashion brands. Giorgio Armani, for example, is one of the most high-class brands with a universal following of dashing hotties across the continent.

But with 2011 upon us, the new high class brands of the future are here as well, and while Giorgio Armani remains a favorite, it needs to make way for some new arrivals in the high fashion designer sunglasses realm. Miu Miu, for example, is about to make the jump from small time to major leagues. You see celebrities sporting the high fashion MiuMiu look while young women around the globe are racing to their favorite online sunglasses shopping outlet and purchasing their favorite MiuMiu glasses. There is a reason they are the most sought after shades on the market for women around the continent.

Some of the more generic high class sunglasses, or at least the expected ones you anticipate seeing from London to Paris are Prada, the parent company of Miu Miu, and Gucci. Women still swoon over these brands, and for good reason. But like Armani, they may be making way soon for other, more up and coming brands like Jimmy Choo. Women lose their breath thinking about Jimmy Choo’s shoe designs, and the sunglasses designs are equally as fantastic. These designs are sleek, modern and retro all at once, and achieve something many other sunglasses companies have always missed. They achieve functionality and form, but miss the point of fashion sometimes—allure.

Dec

31

The Versatility of Contact Lenses

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Contact lenses, like those by Focus or Soflens, give you versatility. That is their second function aside from the obvious effect that they assist your vision. Created by Leonardo Da Vinci, contact lenses began as a vague idea dreamt up by a dreamer in 1508. 300 years later two enterprisingly Czech scientists invented a soft gel and applied this new material to the purpose of vision correction. Glass contacts had been in use for some time, but were abrasive, drying and uncomfortable as well as hard to fit to the curve of each individual eye. The new gel lenses were easy to create, cheap to produce and form fitted to each eye naturally. What Da Vinici dreamed of in 1508 is now worn by some 2% of the global population, some 125 million people, including yours truly.

Contact lenses assist in perfecting or bettering poor vision…. In most cases. In some cases they are used to alter or enhance the look of the eye. Sales of colored contacts increase in October due to Halloween celebrations across the planet. The most popular contacts in October are: the cat eye (yellow with a black diamond in the center) the vertigo eye, with a spiral of two colors into the pupil, and the all-black eye, which is self explanatory.

Contacts are also used to increase the natural hue or tint of the eye. Blue and green eyed women are likely to have contacts that slightly deepen or darken their natural eye color, adding an extra bit of umph to their natural beauty.

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