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How To Choose Sunglasses

Do you wear sunglasses outside? Whether you do or not, sunglasses are important to the heralth of your eyes.There are many shapes, colors,and lens designs of sunglasses.And it would be difficult for you to pick one that is right for you for each person is so different.As a professional Optician,i would like to guide you.

How to choose frames?

Sunglasses frames today vary from wraps to Jackie Os.Metals, plastics and maybe many others. When choosing frames you must remember this, choose a frame that is slightly larger, with placement close to the face. This will help prevent light from streaming into the eye. The best example may be a wrap frame. Many manufactures including Nike and Carrera make them right now. The only disadvantage is that it is difficult to put a prescription in them due to the extreme wrap of the frame. It’s too flat for most prescription lenses to successfully stay in a frame to give you clear vision. Right now,new trends in frames include a lot of embellishments including rhinestones and inlays.

It’s examples are the Christian Dior Monday and the Via Spiga 402-s. Another new strongley trend is the drilled mounted shields. Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani and Kate Spade all provide excellent choices for you both for non prescription and prescription.

How to choose lenses?

Lenses also are of various designs. And the most rocommended for sun wear is polarized. Because it can removes all reflective glare. So boaters and fishermen usually wear them to see clearer into the water, and now it is recommend for everyone.

There are many colors including the neutralizing even transmission gray, the contrasting brown and the popular g-15 Rayban color. It also comes in all types of prescriptions including sv, bifocals, trifocals and popular Varilux Progressives.You wouldn’t need to matter the it’s thickness either because they may come in all types of materials including polycarbonate,hi index,plastic and so on.

Other Choices

Other choices there are too. There are photo chromic lenses. These lenses change color with the uv rays from the sun. They are 100% uv protective, come in gray and brown.When an Anti-reflective coating is added, the lenses are perfectly clear indoors and sunglass darkness in direct sunlight.. There is one disadventage also, the lenses do not change color in a car. Because the ultraviolet rays needed to change the lenses will be absorbed by windshields of cars

If you do not care about what is talked above.You could also just choose the traditional sunglasses.With a dark lens in either gray (the number one choice), brown, or any other fashion tint under the sun.The trendiest colors right now are cooper, coral, mint green and aqua. Keep in mind these are not true sun lenses.

If they are tinted to dark, they can effect driving and effect contrast. Standard tint should allow between 8% and 30% transmission of light to the eye.You must remember that each pair of sunglasses should be 100% UVA and UVB protective.

And you shuoldn’t go by the stickers or designer name.Do make a cheak of them and have your taste!

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