Tips on How to Choose Good-Quality Sunglasses
Good-quality sunglasses give your eyes year-round protection from the sun’s harsh rays. Today’s fashion sunglasses come in many styles. Choose your sunglasses to suit not only your face but also your personality.
You can buy a pair of sunglasses for a few hundred pesos and look terrific—or you can buy a pair for just a small amount and feel the same. What matters most is the lens inside the frame and the protection that it will give your eyes.
We take a lot of care in oiling and creaming our eyes, so why should we subject them to the harsh glare that results in nasty lines around the eyes? Sensitivity to light results in headaches and inflammation of the eyes, and it’s not limited to summer only.
The minute you find that you are squinting or feeling sensitive to light, you can be sure that you need sunglasses.
Buy glasses that will protect your eyes adequately. Don’t buy the very cheap ones. To test the quality of the lenses, put them on, focus on an object, and then wiggle the lenses up and down. If the object appears to move, the lenses aren’t good enough. If it remains in the same spot they are. What glasses you choose should depend on your life style. Consider where you spend most of the day, how active you are and whether or not you are constantly changing environments.
Graduated Lenses
The most popular lenses, these are darker at the top, and then fade to a lighter color at the bottom. They allow you to be outside for long periods, and then go inside without removing the glasses, because the lower half of the lens is reasonably light. These are great for dashing in and out of shops.
Photochromatic Lenses
These are sensitive to light. Outside they react to the sun and automatically darken. Inside, where the brightness is less intense, they lighten to suit the situation.
Polaroid Lenses
These absorb white glare from the sun, which makes them excellent for sailing, water sports and particularly the beach.
The smashing shapes in sunglasses today do away with the old hard-and-fast rules about face shapes and frame shapes. The minute you put a pair of glasses on you will have a feeling about liking them or not.
Then, get a friend to help with your final choice. You can’t completely understand how they look. If you have a definite face shape, use the guide here to help you choose a shape to flatter your face.
Your first choice should be an all-purpose pair. If you can afford a second pair, go for different-colored frames, not different lenses. Your eyes become ‘accustomed to a certain lens and it’s unwise to change.
With all dark glasses, once you begin wearing them your eyes become used to them and demand extra protection, otherwise you suffer discomfort.
Care for your sunglasses with a case when you are not wearing them—and don’t forget that beautiful sunglasses attract attention, so you don’t want untidy brows behind them.
When you get your summer passes, be seen wearing them all the year round—not just to look good but also to give your eyes a sunny view of things.
