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  • Eye Color Facts & Choosing Specs that Enhance Eye Color

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    Have you ever thought about choosing a frame color for your eyeglasses according to beauty guidelines for eye makeup?  Whether you’re male or female, choosing your frames based on your eye color is a sensible yet stylish approach to framing your peepers.  Here are a few facts about eye colors and some color-coded guidelines for…

  • Ditch the Contacts, Don the Frames

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    A friend took a picture of me last week wearing my glasses, and I must admit I recoiled at the sight! No make-up, hair a mess, the glasses weren’t even straight; but the thought occurred to me that this is how I present myself far too often. After speaking to numerous friends around the 16-24years…

  • Top Nerdy Glasses for Guys and Girls

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    There are certain fashion accessories that modern culture obsesses over, and at the top of that list are glasses. Although technically these are items that are worn for corrective reasons, the same way one would wear a hearing aid, they have their own school of style. What we call “nerdy” glasses is the best example.…

  • The Sexy Librarian Look

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    By 1953, when Marilyn Monroe starred as Pola in “How To Marry A Millionaire,” the ‘sexy librarian look’ had found its archetype.  She is a kind of gender-reversed Clark Kent in this film.  Playing a woman who is embarrassed to be seen in glasses, Marilyn Monroe establishes the tantalizing aesthetic and sets the tone for…

  • Cinema to Go?

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    From about the late 1980s, we have been intrigued by virtual reality. Advances in technology have consistently brought us to the very edge of what we thought was possible, and still managed to extend the boundaries ever so slightly each year. Today, in 2010, virtual reality has been expanded once again in the form of…

  • Eyeglasses: Function and Fashion

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    Eyeglasses have come a long way from having only a corrective purpose, paying no attention to style to combining practicality and fashion. Available in a variety of styles, shapes, sizes and colors, prescription glasses can help one construe their personal image. The progress made in the eyewear industry has made it possible for people to…

  • How to brighten your SAD day with yellow glasses

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    Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that affects thousands of people each winter. It strikes between the months of September and April, with most sufferers feeling the worst effects in December, January and February as a result of the lack of sunlight and shorter days. For many people, SAD…

  • Visual symptoms you should never ignore

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    The standard advice given to us by our optician is to get our eyes tested every 2 years, but just how seriously do most of us take this recommendation? Just like having regular dentist appointments, people often become complacent about such health checks, justifying it by saying ‘my vision is fine’ etc. The problem with…