Prescription glasses-best style for you??

[rebeccaC]

The right are my new reading glasses. I originally liked the style, but feel slightly clownish.

It looks like you have more of an oval face so oversized glasses will take away from your face’s natural symmetry. the left ones look more appropriate for your face shape. thinking there is info on the net about face shape and the best styles for glasses.
progressives just don't work for some people especially if their eye movement is even slightly different between eyes....sometimes two different pairs is the right answer.

[shootingstar]

Hmm. I think I have a wider face than oval..right photo distorts my face. I know, because my sisters have lovelier shaped faces.
Prescription glasses aren't cheap...and that ticks me off. I have a employee benefit that discounts by $400.00....for a pr. @ $700.00. Anyway, I realize the following for myself in preferences:

*Only half frame rimmed glasses. When having black brows and nature of my features, I need glasses that "lighten" my features in my face. If you notice, I don't wear ANY eyeliner nor mascara. I haven't for the past 35 yrs. I tried mascara once and my eyes felt so heavy/tired. I don't need to look more academic or more geeky.....I think my personality comes across as more serious and I'm less a "girlie" chick in style....so having "lighter" or funkier glasses is probably better me. That's why I originally bought the right hand reading glasses style. Oh well, I still wear them. I thought even buying deep red/purple frame or even deep indigo blue. Who knows, as one grows older, one gets crazier?

*I like a large lens surface to look through. Don't like small surface lenses..

*I also like large lens surface and lighter style frames to enhance naturally dark large eyes. Thank you mother from whom I inherited this set of eyes.

Wearing glasses still hasn't been a 100% habit for me. EVen though I've had glasses for past 3+ years. I frequently forget them at home for work... I didn't need to wear glasses until I was 51 yrs.

[Crankin]

Yup, purple, blue, lighter, crazy ones would look great on you!

[Pax]

Some brands that make very stylish frames for smaller faces are: Kliik, Lulu Guinness, and Fysh. My wife has also tried kids frames and some of them work as well.

For me, I've found I enjoy color, so my last pair are a really cool blue.

[ny biker]

I'm another who wears contact lenses for distance and reading glasses for up close. I buy the readers at the grocery story, Target, etc. I have a pair at home, one at work, one in my purse, one in the car, a folding pair in my bike bag. I usually get fun colored frames like purple or red.

In the past year or so I've been wearing my prescription glasses for distance more often. This is due to various reasons -- eye allergies in the spring, too lazy to put contacts in, I like wearing the glasses when I ride my bike at night or have a long drive. I take them off to read. Which means I am frequently taking them off at home and putting them down somewhere, then forgetting where I put them. It drives me crazy. Anyway the upshot is that whether I wear contacts or not, I'm always putting glasses on and taking them off all day long. I'm told it's possible to get progressive contacts but I'm worried I'll get headaches from them, or from progressive glasses. Also my distance Rx is pretty stable but the farsightedness is getting worse, and it's cheaper to buy new readers at the grocery store than get a new prescription.

I bought my prescription glasses probably 5-6 years ago, and I remember trying on virtually every pair in the store trying to find something I liked. Because I also like larger lenses to see through -- I hate having a small circle of clear vision with a blurry area around it -- but I think small-medium size frames look better on me. So it was hard to find a size that I liked. Also I tried some colors that I thought would look good but ended up hating them. Eventually I got a pair of Rayban titanium frames that are fairly ordinary rectangles with rounded corners. They're a bit larger than I like, aesthetically, but most of my field of vision is clear which is important. I think technically they were on the side of the store with the men's frames, but they're pretty gender-neutral.

[Crankin]

NY, my DH has the progressive contacts with no issues. He has dailies, as he wears his many pairs of glasses often!

[emily_in_nc]

I so wish the multi-focal contacts would work for me! I tried several brands back when I was working and had eye insurance, but none of them worked for me.

Did the readers/contacts things for a long time, but it just didn't work for all situations, especially cycling (reading my bike computer) and computer work. Was fine for distance, but even reading wasn't perfect.

I have been wearing progressive glasses for about 10 years now (I'm 55), and I really like them. I have never had a problem adjusting, but my two eyes are very close in Rx, so I am lucky. I still see better close up with no glasses at all, but they are fine for computer work and "lite" reading.

I have had all different styles of frames over the years, most wire-framed, some with full frames, some half, and most recently I've gone to plastic. I got the current ones in Mexico, and with Transitions (turn dark outside), anti-glare, and everything, they only ran about $250. DH got similar ones just a couple of weeks ago here in Florida and paid $360 for similar ones at Walmart, one of the least expensive places for Rx glasses in the US.

I have an oval-shaped face, not tiny but small, and here is the shape I went with (inside and out):



I don't know if this helps at all, but it's a data point. I agree that colors would be great on you, ShootingStar!