How to Care for Your Glasses

You’ve spent your hard-earned money on new prescription glasses frames, so you’ll want to keep them in good condition, right? After all, they’re a long-term purchase. But incorrect or inadequate care can lead to damage to your lenses, such as scratches, which can stop them working properly. By following just a few simple steps, it’s easy to keep your eye glasses frames in tip-top condition:

• Store your glasses in a hard case when you’re not wearing them to avoid them getting scratched or squashed.
• Clean your glasses regularly to avoid a build-up of dirt.
• When cleaning, use a special lens cleaning spray or a dab of water, then wipe gently in a circular motion with a soft, micro-fibre cloth. Keep in mind that wiping lenses on clothes or other materials can cause scratching.
• Avoid touching your lenses directly with your fingers, which can lead to scratching, dirt build-up, and smudging.
• Don’t let others try on your glasses, which can cause the frames to stretch or, if they’re not handled correctly, breakages.
• Try not to make a habit of wearing your glasses on top of your head, which can cause them to become out of shape. If you don’t need them, simply take them off.
• Use two hands to take your glasses on and off. Using just one can mean accidentally pulling at the arm of the frames and stretching or breaking them. Alternatively, hold your glasses by the nose arch.
• When setting down your glasses, even momentarily, never place them lens down, which risks scratching the lens.
• If your glasses do somehow get damaged, take them to an optician for fixing. Trying to mend them yourself can often make things worse.

20 Things Only People Who Wear Glasses Will Understand

As anyone with prescription glasses frames will testify, there are more pros than cons to wearing them. Some of them are obvious, but others, only those who wear them will understand…

1. Feeling like the coolest person in the world in your new browlines…

2. …then instantly feeling like the exact opposite when you have to take them off and wipe them on your shirt to clean them.

3. Having the actual ability to walk around the house for half an hour looking for your glasses when they’re actually on your head.

4. How unfunny the phrase ‘four-eyes’ actually is…but you get the last laugh because specs are ultra-cool now.

5. Having a good old cry whilst wearing your glasses and then never being able to see again because you can’t get those splotches off the lenses.

6. Getting eye make-up smudges all over the lenses.

7. Quietly resenting people trying on your glasses but being too polite to say know.

8. Seeing your favourite celebrity in their glasses and feeling really cool and simultaneously annoyed with yourself that you didn’t buy the same style.

9. Your glasses sliding down your nose making you look like a strict librarian.

10. Being barely able to see in the shower.

11. The blind terror you feel when you open the oven door and your specs steam up so that you can’t actually see what it is you’re touching.

12. Being unable to watch a movie lying down because you’ll squish your frames.

13. The impact rain has on your ability to see anything around you.

14. Experiencing double the terror on theme park rollercoasters because you have to remove your glasses and can’t see anything.

15. Fogging up when you put your hot coffee anywhere near your face.

16. Having to somehow negotiate wearing 3D glasses as well as your normal specs when you go to the movies.

17. Making your dirty/wet glasses worse by wiping them on your woollen sweater or scarf. It gets you every time.

18. How uncomfortable it is to exercise and sweat with specs on.

19. Grease splatters on your lenses from cooking that delicious fry-up.

20. People constantly asking why you don’t just wear contacts and not understanding that you actually love your glasses.

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15 Facts You Never Knew About Eyes and Glasses

Think you know everything about your eyes? We found some interesting facts that might surprise you!

1. People blink 12 times per minute on average, and more when they’re talking.

2. Brown is the most common eye colour in the world.

3. Around a quarter of the world’s population requires eye glasses frames of some sort.

4. Colour-blindness is more common in men than women.

5. We are all colour-blind when we’re born.

6. A single inventor of glasses has never been recognised, but Benjamin Franklin created bi-focal lenses.

7. The eye muscles are more active than any other muscle in the body.

8. The eye is the most complex organ in the body, after the brain.

9. Just 1/6 of the eyeball is exposed.

10. It isn’t possible to sneeze with your eyes open.

11. It’s a myth that wearing glasses makes you dependent on them.

12. Your pupils expand when you look at someone that you find attractive or love.

13. A baby’s eyes start to develop just two weeks after conception.

14. Our peripheral vision is almost black and white.

15. Your eye lens is much faster than that of a camera.

Knowing your facts doesn’t improve your eyesight though, so if you’re in the mood to shop for your prescription glasses online, check out our stylish selection!

Sources: http://eyecare.lenstore.co.uk/101-amazing-eye-facts

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