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  • How to Choose Sunglasses for the Winter

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    I once had a friend called The Fonz. My friends and I first gave him this nickname when we first discovered that he never left the house without his leather jacket and a pair of sunglasses. In fact, he rarely attended an event, day or night, summer or winter, without his trusty Ray Bans. We…

  • 5 Tips on How to Decrease Stress & Improve Eye Health

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    The UK’s National Stress Awareness day is on the 4th of November this year. Stress is the feeling of being under too much emotional or mental pressure, and can affect us all due to the worries of modern life. It’s normal to feel stressed sometimes, but it’s important to recognise when relationship, life, work or money worries…

  • Twilight Lenses Lead to Spooktacular Warning

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    Tis the season to be jolly. No hang on one second. That kind of festive talk is not for a few months yet! Yet with Christmas but a matter of months away and Halloween catching up on as fast as Usain Bolt, here’s a real stocking filler of a tale. According to recent reports, strange…

  • Personal Experience: Living With Keratoconus

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    Well I knew it was bound to happen.  I put it off for as long as possible. Procrastinated, made excuses winged, whined and complained but here they are as plain as the nose on my face.  A brand new pair of specs.  My first pair in over 15 years to be exact.  That’s half my…

  • What is Keratoconus?

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    So what is Keratoconus? The long and short of it is football shaped eyeballs. Strange?  Yeah.  The underlying cause is still unknown but the shape results from the stretching and thinning of the cornea.  Over time the front of the eye loses its spherical shape forming instead a bulge or cone. This greatly affects the…

  • Surprising Careers for People Who Wear Glasses

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    I have been shortsighted since I was a small child. I love the freedom of wearing my contact lenses for sports, and I’m also a big fan of chunky statement frames for computer work, which I wear with pride! However, I used to think that some careers wouldn’t be accessible for me due to my poor eyesight. It…

  • Framing Fashion: A Hip History of Spectacles

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    Glasses were originally designed to correct our sight, a medical aid for people with impaired vision. Although their style has been influenced by fashion throughout history, it wasn’t until the 20th century that specs became cool in their own right. We explore how spectacles have become a major style statement! Let’s start in the 15th…

  • 3 Practical Benefits of Rimless Glasses

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    There are hundreds of different styles of rimless glasses to choose from with the stock here at SelectSpecs – and, indeed, just looking at these frames on our site could make you eager to splash out! However, rimless spectacles look so good that their practical benefits can be all too easy to overlook. This article…

  • Surgeons Perform Pioneering Operation to Find Cure for Blindness

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    Surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have performed an operation many are saying could lead to a cure for blindness. The operation performed last month on a 60-year old woman who developed Macula Degeneration involved “seeding” a tiny patch of healthy eye cells and implanting it at the back of the retina. So how can this help…

  • The Referee Knows Best

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    Ian John-Lewis It’s not every day you get a world class boxing referee come into your store but when Ian John-Lewis was invited to come into SelectSpecs and undergo the most advanced eye exam available – an OCT, he happily obliged. The OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) test not only detects a number of key eye conditions but…