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Apr
29
Top Five Eyewear Mistakes
Filed Under Eyewear Knowledge, Designer Sunglasses, Designer Eyeglasses | Leave a Comment
In the world of fashion, what’s on your face can make or break your appearance. Just ask Versace. Don’t spoil your hard work by messing up the finishing touches. Sometimes it’s the finishing touches that mean the most.
The biggest mistake you can make with eyewear is in frame shape. Most eyewear enthusiasts have spent hours pouring over images of eyewear and checking out how they will look on their own face and bone structure. For more hints on how to match eyewear to you facial structure, check out former posts of ours.
The second biggest mistake would be color. Be careful with what colors you choose for your eyewear, both eyeglasses and sunglasses alike. Don’t pick eyewear for your outfit; pick eyewear for your skin and hair tones so that you can wear your accessories in any outfit.
The third biggest mistake is in male versus female eyewear. While many prefer designs outside their gender, try to stick to your gender designs as much as possible because of size and shape designs.
The fourth biggest mistake you can make is in choosing a design era to emulate. Vintage is in style, but make sure you flash back to the right generation. Vintage Wayfarers are in style at present, from Ray Ban, as are other flashbacks like the Burberry retro designs.
The final mistake many make is in over doing it. Sometimes less is more. Spread out your accessorizing over your eyewear, jewelry, bags, shoes and belts. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, in other words.
Apr
25
Five Steps to Healthier Eyes
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For healthier eyes, we recommend staying in style with the top brand in eyewear this summer – Dior. Here are a few additional steps to staying healthy and in style this summer.
Step one – Vitamins
Vitamin A helps improve night vision and can be found in green leafy vegetables, carrots, spinach, eggs and cheeses. Vitamin B complex is good for reducing redness around the eyes and helps eyes that are sensitive to light. Vitamin B complexes can be found in bananas, liver, pastas, breads, milk and mushrooms. Finally, carotene, found in carrots, broccoli, cabbage and peas, can help the formation of visual purples in the eyes, which helps improve weak eyes and reduce strain.
Step two – Exercise
Naturally, exercise makes for a healthier you. In relation to healthy eyes, prolonged exercise dilates your arteries and rushes fresh blood and oxygen to your eyes. Daily exercise brings much needed nutrients, oxygen and hydration to the eyes and can help fight stress and depression, which both target your eyes.
Step three – Foods for your eyes
One of the best foods for your eyes is Blueberry. Drinking blueberry juice often helps to increase night vision and decrease damage from straining. Likewise, carrots or carrot juice helps improve weak eyes. Wiping green tea bags under your eyes helps them relax while drinking green tea helps deter cataracts.
Step four – Be wise about your eyes
When outdoors, even on cloudy days, wear sunglasses that have UV protection. This keeps your eyes from straining under harsh light and protects your retinas from damage. Similarly, avoid looking at any one object (aka- a computer screen or TV) for prolonged periods. If you have a desk job, make sure you spend at least 5 minutes an hour looking away from your screen and exercising your eyes.
Step five – Sunglasses/eyewear
Don’t skimp on eyewear. Buy glasses that fit your face comfortably and get your prescription updates yearly. Do not wear anyone else’s glasses. If you are outdoors often get prescription sunglasses.
Apr
21
A wave of requests online to identify Carrie’s sunglasses in Sex in the City: the Movie, have finally been answered – Carrie wears Oliver Peoples throughout the film, a modern update to the Wayfarers she wore in early episodes of the show.
Sex and the City lit up American televisions from 1998, when the sitcom first aired, to 2004, when the foursome of friends signed off for good. Thanks to the recently release Sex and the City movie, the foursome have reemerged in updated 21st century style with Oliver People’s sunglasses and Chanel clothing. Patricia Field, who was the key wardrobe designer for the show and movie, was confident that her mix of high fashion and everyday ready-to-wear clothing would be a success in the real world. This theory has proven popular as more Americans are mixing designer accessories with cheaper staples, jeans and T-shirts.
Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) plays a super confident writer who blogs for the New York Star in a weekly column on fashion, love and modern life. Throughout the 6 season series, she displays a grasp of fashion nearly unparalleled in American TV. Parker has since launched herself full force into the fashion industry by modeling for Garnier hair products and the Gap clothing, and finally releasing her own fragrance called ‘lovely.’ She has guest starred on Project Runway and has designed her own collection, which she is busy promoting.
Apr
17
What’s better than everyday low prices on the best names in designer eyewear like Ray Ban, Police and Armani? – Free shipping on designer eyewear! Now, for a limited time, get free shipping on all orders over the Easter holiday from SmartBuyGlasses.com.
SmartBuyGlasses.com has the designer eyewear fashion you crave. Check out the latest trends in eyewear fashion, and the most purchased/most viewed items. Check out the optimization on each product ranging from polarization, scratch and water resistance coatings, polycarbonate and other lens options and much, much more. With over twenty top eyewear design names, SmartBuyGlasses.com has the fashion design you’ve been looking for at prices you’ll love.
Apr
14
Desert Survival Eyewear
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Though most people do not plan to be lost in the desert without a pair of Oakley goggles, those who have found themselves lost without them were invariably seeing mirages of the Oakley logo reflecting off the hot desert sands.
Being lost in the desert is a strikingly common occurrence across the globe. A few things that will wile away reserve and turn a survivor into a mummy are wind damage and sun damage. While heat-stroke is a legitimate concern, as with lack of water and dehydration, the third most important factor is to protect your skin and eyes. Damage to the skin can result in bubbles and sores which will weaken and distract your immune system and also provide extreme discomfort. Damage to the eyes, including sun and wind damage, can result in blindness, panic or retinal scaring. If you are planning a trip into the desert for any reason, set yourself up to have the right equipment in desperate situations.
If you ever find yourself in a desert survival situation, follow these simple tasks as soon as possible. Put something over your head to block the sun from pounding on your most exposed body part- your head. Try to cover every piece of exposed skin. While this may make you feel warmer, it will protect your skin and ultimately force you to sweat, which will also cool you down.
If you were traveling near the desert you should have brought desert eyewear with you. The Oakley Ambush design is perfect for trips into the desert. The fabric around the goggles will keep out sand and block all peripheral light. Meanwhile, the strap will keep them in place during sand storms.
If you find yourself lost without eyewear, do not neglect your eyes. Take any hard surface object you can find and cut two slits in it to look through. Affix this to your head for makeshift sunglasses. Try using the interior padding of your shoes tied on with a shoe lace. After you have set yourself up to avoid skin and eye damage, look around for a variation in geography. A mountain range or large hill or even a colored streak in the desert make perfect targets to aim for. Aim for something and keep walking until you reach it. When you pass it, keep it directly behind you so that you do not accidently double back.
Apr
10
Dick Cheney’s Sunglasses – What Lies Behind the Reflection?
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For a top political official, reflective eyewear is probably a poor choice, as Dick Cheney now knows. The web is alive with speculation as to what is reflecting in his sunglasses. Speculation abounds as to if the reflection shows a nude woman, an alien, or even a hybrid of both. Perhaps it was just a slow news day.
The photo, taken by White House photographer David Bohrer, seems to show Dick Cheney smiling happily while watching a large breasted woman. Upon closer examination, the image becomes less interesting. According to White House spokesmen the reflection is of Dick Cheney’s own hand casting a fly fishing rod into a river in Idaho. Naturally, the former assumption spread like wildfire across the web, which doubtless cast another smile across Cheney’s lips and a frown across his wife Lynn’s.
Whether he is fishing or voyering, Dick Cheney has learned an invaluable lesson through this media mishap. Reflective lenses for politicians are a definite no no! These Ray Ban’s with reflective lenses are prescription made. The reflective coating was an additional feature Cheney added to the normally non-reflective polycarbonate.
Dick Chaney launched himself into the cross hairs of comedians everywhere when he non-fatally shot his hunting partner in the head in 2006. After which one would have thought Mr. Cheney would have taken care of his vision problems in such a manner as to avoid drawing attention to them in the future.
A point of interest. President Barak Obama also currently wears Ray Ban’s, though his are not reflective.
Apr
3
Teen Queens in Designer Fashion
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A trend has become apparent recently wherein Hollywood starlets who are making the transition to womanhood are hiding, in the awkward transitional phases, behind thick Ray Ban eyewear. A notoriously famous Hollywood design, Ray Ban’s have been revered in California for decades and the look is unlikely to go out of fashion simply because these awkward princesses slip into something certain in uncertain times.
Miley Cyrus, star of the now famous Hannah Montana children’s series has grown into quite the early adult starlet. After a shocking nearly nude photo shoot, Miley reaffirmed her innocence and affirmation to be a ‘good girl.’ Decked out in Ray Ban Warriors, Miley is stepping outside the teen-bop role and into very adult fashion, so adult it reminds us, perhaps, of her nearly nude photo shoot in the not too distant past. Ray Ban’s are worn by some of the top A-list stars in Hollywood and this Disney princess is making the step from tweeny to queenie in classic style.
Lindsey Lohan, like Miley Cyrus, began as a teen starlet. Having graduated (in a blur of alcohol and Hollywood enforced time-outs) to adulthood, Lohan is also donning Ray Ban’s in an attempt to suddenly appear more ‘grown-up.’ Her Ray Ban style of choice are the Aviator 3025’s in gold, a very mature design for a very public young lady who just recently announced she was coming out of the closet with long-term girlfriend (and fellow Ray Ban fan) Samantha Ronson.
Another teen star who grew up to love the Ray Ban look as an ‘adult’ is Britney Spears, who wears the same style and brand (though in black, not gold) as Lohan. Whether walking barefoot in public bathrooms or driving with her infant unbuckled in her lap, Britney is staying fashionable in Ray Ban style.
Keep an eye out for these three childhood starts to ‘make it big’ in Hollywood. They dress the part, but can they walk the walk?