Eyeglasses Archives

Eye Makeup With Glasses: 5 Tips to Make Your Eyes Pop

Written By Kara Keigan

If you wear glasses, it’s easy to feel like your makeup routine doesn’t matter because you can hide behind your specs. There’s no need to retire your favorite makeup looks because of your glasses! Although it may feel like you’re hiding behind your frames, glasses actually bring attention to your face. We’ve gathered 5 tips for eye makeup with glasses to incorporate into your makeup routine.

You can take your makeup to the next level with just a few of these points!

Astigmatism Treatments: What Are the Best Options?

Written By Michael Healy

Astigmatism affects one out of every three people. While it’s far from life-threatening, astigmatism does not go away. However, there are astigmatism treatments available to correct the condition, one of them being surgery.

But is surgery your only option? Let’s explore this.

5 Cozy Fall Glasses for Sweater Weather

Written By Haley Fritz

Fall signals a drop in temperatures and the chillier the weather, the less we feel like rolling out of bed, putting in our contacts and going about our day. In other words, autumn is the perfect season to cozy up with your favorite pair of fall glasses, in your favorite sweater, with your favorite flavored latte (pumpkin spice, anyone?).

When chilly weather calls for a cozy outfit, these designer glasses are your new best friend. Check out our curated pairings matching fall frames with seasonal style trends.

Prism Correction Glasses: What Are They?

Written By Michael Healy

Eyeglasses are typically prescribed for two main reasons: astigmatism and near- or farsightedness. Another common reason is to correct double vision, or diplopia. Read on to understand the warning signs, diagnostics, and whether or not you might be in need of prism correction glasses.

What causes the need for prism correction glasses?

If your eyes are working in accordance with each other, you have what is known as binocular vision. When light passes through the cornea, the dome-shaped tissue lining the outside of the eye helps to focus the light before it reaches the retina, the light-sensitive tissue lining the back surface of the eye.

Light that’s been converted by the cornea is sent to the brain as electrical impulses along the optic nerve to be translated into images. Typically, the eyes work together to see one, single image because light falls on the same spot in each retina.

However, in someone with diplopia, light falls on different parts of the retina, causing two separate images to be seen.

Diplopia is not the only reason for potentially needing prism correction glasses. Other causes include:

The Pros and Cons of Progressive Lenses

Written By Oliver Torres

Progressive lenses are a wonderful innovation in eyewear. But they’re not for everybody.

Progressive lenses are not bifocals (or trifocals)

Progressives give you line-free multifocal glasses.

The goal is to get a seamless progression from your lenses that deliver magnifying power for near and intermediate vision. Each lens changes gradually from point to point on the surface to provide the correct lens power for seeing clearly at various distances.

They differ from bifocals, which have only two lens powers—one for distant objects and one in the lower half of the lens—for vision correction at a specified reading distance. With bifocals, the different power zones have a clearly visible line across the center of the lens.

Progressive lenses don’t have this line. In fact, they’re sometimes called “no-line bifocals.” The truth is, progressive lenses offer a more advanced multifocal design than bifocals—or trifocals.