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Ahead to Autumn

Monday, August 9th, 2010

The grass is still sucking up the post sunshine showers of July, but the fashion pack is ahead of the game and looking forward to the harvest, Halloween and hot new looks! All the fashion mags are working overtime on pondering the catwalk, studying the styles on display at the Couture shows and imaging what will filter down to the High Street over the next few months. This has an impact on the colours and shapes we’ll be wearing for coming year, so if you’re considering new glasses, read on…..

Giorgio Armani was working glamorous tailoring, always his strength, but with soft silhouettes and a neutral palette. So for work wear you might want to think about classic and grown up specs, in warm pale browns, caramel, or even nude, if your colouring can take it. Detail should be pared to the minimum for this look, so no added bling or pattern! A sleek metal frame or simple plastic with layered laminates would add interest without going over the top.

The house of Dior was awash with colour, a total contrast to the cool Mr Armani. And this colour was used to fantastic effect with mouth watering patterns that dazzled, in a riot of joyful flowers. So if you’re planning a wedding or a special outfit for a ball, you can go wild with hot shades and vibrant colour. Frames can be hot plastics, or layers of coloured metal, in a shade that’s as bright as your dress. You don’t have to match the colour exactly, brilliant red or green is fabulous with purple, or orange with turquoise, just make sure the strength of the colours are the same. Frames again can be simple with regard to detail, let the colour and pattern on your fabulous frock do the work for you!

If however minimalist chic is not for you, and you want to add bling, layers, flounces, diamonds and pearls to your dresses, than Chanel will fire your imagination this season. They were all about the detail and were also championing the floaty and romantic longer hem length. For all you fairy princesses out there, this is feminine and pretty. Specs can be metal or plastic, with slim rims that bring attention to your eyes. Add as much detail as you dare, with inlaid jewels, filigree work and delicate traceries of colour. Gold would be a good colour choice to echo the look and co-ordinate with lots of different colours.

Looking through the fashion pages can inspire you and excite you when making your decisions for the new season, so let your specs complement your clothes and add an extra fashion dimension to your outfit.

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Frames – Does Fashion Really Matter?

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

We very often hear – particularly from men!! – that fashion doesn’t matter at all when it comes to specs. “They’re just to help me see, I don’t care what I look like.” “They’re only specs, who cares what they’re like,” etc etc are common comments when faced with the challenge of finding a new eye wear. So does it matter?

If first impressions count, and people make assumptions about us within seconds of meeting us, then of course glasses are as vital to your appearance as hair, clothes, make up and other accessories. If you’re a techno geek and you appear in ten year old specs, would you look as if you know about the latest and greatest products on the market? If you’re in business do you look as if you’re ahead of your game in battered, frumpy, or out of date specs? Of course you don’t, and just as most of us don’t wear the same clothes as we did ten years ago, we really shouldn’t neglect our specs when it comes to updating our look.

New glasses, just like new hair, can knock ten years of you in an instant. If you change your hair colour, or the way you do your make-up, then change your specs too. An alteration to your colouring will alter the way your specs reflect light and colour back on your face. Trends come and go with glasses as with any other aspect of fashion, so check out a few magazines, websites, and simply faces on the High Street to get an idea of what’s in vogue.

Within current trends, work on a colour and shape that will flatter your looks and your lifestyle. Even a subtle change in shape – remember when we went from round to oval – will update and reinvigorate your look. And at least with specs fashion you don’t have to worry about being mutton dressed as lamb. There are a very few styles that are age specific, so you can fearlessly choose whatever you fancy without worrying about whether you are too old.

As faces are what we focus on first, your specs never go unnoticed, so don’t think that they don’t matter. Cheaper and less painful than a face lift, you can refresh yourself and leap into fashion with a simple pair of new specs!

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A Problem Shared….

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

There are many reasons why a client does not get on with their glasses. The prescription could be wrong, the order may have been made incorrectly, but the most common problem is misunderstanding – what is the prescription suitable for? What are it’s limitations? And can we do anything to put things right? Here are a few common issues that people raise.

I could see my computer in my old reading specs, but not in the new ones. What do I do now for work?!

This is an easy one, and we come across it fairly regularly. To enable you to see to read we give you a magnifying lens that allows you to see small print and fine detail. When you need it strengthening, the focal length will be shorter than in your old weaker pair. You’ll see to read in the new ones, but not see so well far away. Just use the old pair for the screen, as they are what we would prescribe for a middle distance lenses. If you constantly refer to small print and the screen however, you’ll need varifocals or vocational lenses, to allow you to do more than one thing at once.

I love the look of my new flat lenses, but my table is weirdly sloped away from me, and the walls are kind of curving in!

If you switch from a standard to a flatter lens design you will see some distortion at the edges of the lenses, but it will wear off. It just feels very odd to start with, so the key is to put the specs on and leave them on! Your brain will adjust and after a day or two the odd effects will be gone.

I know I’ve got Cataracts starting and my sight isn’t as good as it was, but I can’t see as well in my new glasses as with my old ones. Are they wrong?

Of course there could be a problem with the prescription or with the way the glasses have been made, but the answer here may be about your Cataracts. The lens inside your eye will have little opacities in it, which obscure your sight. If the old specs are weaker and you’re not seeing as clearly then you won’t see the opacities as clearly either! The new power is probably showing your visual defects up. Get the spex checked out, but patience is probably all that’s required, when you are ready for your Op your sight will be restored.

If you have any concerns about your glasses or your vision then mail us at the Internet Glasses Company for an individual and confidential reply.

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Eyes in Disguise!

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

When we’re talking to customers about choosing new glasses, many ladies (and a few men!) mention the problem of the under eye area. The stresses and strains of everyday life, late nights, smoking, alcohol, can all affect your skin. These factors contribute to dark circles, bags under the eyes, puffy areas and crows feet. Before you go under the Surgeons knife, have a think about what you can do in your choice of frames to help resolve the problem…

Firstly, a few lifestyle changes will benefit the under eye area and help you feel healthier generally. Smoking dulls your skin and can lead to the early onset of Age Related Macular Degeneration, so give up!! Drink more water, get plenty of sleep and work on your five-a-day of fruit and veg, boring but you’ll be more beautiful! Secondly shop around and try out some skin products. Don’t overload the delicate eye area, and never use heavy face creams around the eyes. Use specific products and pat in very gently – your ring finger will be the gentlest. Don’t drag the skin and remove all traces of make up before you go to sleep.

Make up around this area should be light and very well blended. Scrutinise your eyes and make sure eyeliner etc is kept soft and there are no hard edges. A sweep of a highlighter such as the iconic YSL Touche Eclat will reflect light back and camouflage problem areas. Bobbi Brown’s Tinted Eye Brightener is another great product that soothes the skin and will help to lighten dark shadows.

When you choose your new frames, go shallow, so that the under eye area is not within your frames, where it will be enhanced by the lenses! If you are long sighted your lenses will magnify the eyes, so choose a flatter lens. Make sure the bottom rim covers the lower edge of any baggy bits or wrinkles! Rimless or semi-rimless glasses will just add another set of lines and draw attention to shadows. Go for a bold rim in plastic or metal, that will draw attention to the frame and your eyes within it, not the area round the eye.

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Ice Queen

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

After a flirtation with nudes and pastels as the colour palette for last Summer, the new season is promising us an interesting twist on the pale and interesting theme – ice cream pastels in delicious shades of lemon, icy mint green, peachy beige and the palest lavender blue.

If you’re ready for new glasses in the New Year then it’s always worth looking to the fashion pages for inspiration. Specs designers base their new collections on whatever the great fashion houses are producing, so even when it’s not glasses they’re directly showcasing you can get ahead of the fashion pack by taking note of their direction. If pastels are in for clothes, then your glasses need to reflect this. Minimal metals, light as air rimless, plastics in subtle tones and light pearl effects will all compliment this look. You wouldn’t add heavy black bags or shoes to a pretty, airy ladylike outfit, so don’t do the same with your eyewear! Your specs should be part of your accessorising, so enjoy wearing them and pay them as much attention as you do your jewellery and footwear.

Playing with your eyewear can help you to buy into a trend without changing your entire wardrobe. Some subtle and feminine touches like a dash of diamante or a shimmering satin look plastic will give you the look for the Spring in a less obvious way. Maybe it echoes the optimistic feel that the New Year always brings, after a winter of harsh Eighties revival clothing and punky studs.

Pretty sweetie shop colours can be the icing on the cake, so embrace your girlie side in shades or prescription specs that will refresh your palette.

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A Look for a Lifestyle

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

It’s all to easy nowadays to get online and order your new glasses, or call in to the high street optician and just order some specs like the ones you’ve had before. The choice may seem bewildering so it’s easy to see why sometimes we want the simple option, and go for what we’re used to. If you’re thinking of new specs, take a few minutes to think about your lifestyle, and your next pair may even make life a little easier for you.

If you spend hours twittering or poking, or playing online is your main occupation, you may need to consider a coating that will make your vision more comfortable. Anti-reflection coatings cut glare, reduce eyestrain and fatigue, and generally make your eyes more comortable. They look good too as they make your lenses look super clear.

UV protection becomes an issue if you spend lots of time outside, or have very pale eyes. UV can damage the retina, and increase your risk of cataracts. If you do have pale eyes and therefore little natural protection from UV, a UV coat will stop the damaging rays from entering the eye. This is especially important if you ski or spend time on the water.

If your outdoor time is spent in sunny climes, you’ll need protection from glare as well as invisible UV. Bright sunshine can be uncomfortable and distracting, especially through the windscreen. You might want to consider photochromic lenses, which darken in the sun, or fixed tint, prescription sunglasses. Fixed tints work better behind the windscreen, but you have to remember to keep clear specs with you for night driving.

If you need reading specs and spend intense periods of time on specific hobbies, you may benefit from prescription lenses that give you the exact magnification for your working distance. This will be different for embroidery, or a work bench, or a VDU screen. Measure your working distance and tell your optician what you want the specs for. They’ll calculate the strength you need for perfect vision.

There’s a solution for every eye wear dilemma nowadys, so don’t be afraid to talk about your needs and see what product will suit you.

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A Weight off My Nose!

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I’ve just made a major investment in new glasses, and for the first time I’ve admitted how short sighted I am and sought some advice about having lenses that suit my lens power. The new glasses are lovely and the relief for my poor nose! So I’m sharing my story in case it helps anyone else out there!

I suddenly got short sighted at about 25, so although I’m now on the wrong side of forty I’m still not too blind without my specs. The sphere bit of my lenses is -4.50. This has gradually crept up over the years, so my glasses have got heavy as my lenses get thicker. (Apparently the more short sighted you are, the chunkier the outside rim of the lenses will be.) The look of the lenses has never bothered me, as I like loud, coloured plastic frames, and my lens is always hidden in the frame.

Two years ago I broke my nose (a four year old hit me with a tractor, thanks very much!) and the whole experience of glasses has never been the same since. My nose looks ok but is really sensitive to pressure. I discovered online opticians so I got a couple of pairs of specs, the weight feels a bit different in each one, and that helped. This time though when I got new ones I had thinned down lenses. These lenses are as strong as  my usual ones, but they are made of thinner plastic, so they are  not as chunky at the edges. I also chose a little frame, to cut down on how much lens I’ve got. The difference is amazing, and I’m now sending my other frames away to have thin lens put in those too. I thought my eyes weren’t that bad, but the IGC said that the lens thinning takes about about a third off the lens, which made all the difference to me – even after my impromptu nose job!

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