What kind of glasses should I get?
For the first time in over a decade, I’m going to get new glasses. I actually like the frames on my old ones, but the lenses are beaten up and I ought to at least try some different styles, as I’m hardly the same person I was 10-plus years ago. I’m taking a couple of women friends with me, because it’s impossible to be objective about these things for yourself. In that spirit, I’d like to ask your advice as well, readers. What kind of glasses should I get?
Here’s the book-cover picture of me, taken by Sarah Shatz:
And here are a few full-length photos so you can see the kinds of colors, textures, and general look that I go for:
And here, for a more objective look, you can see my face, with hair pulled back except for bangs, and no makeup. This was taken the night that Mr. Improbable and I returned from Italy to a power outage at home, so I was grubby, sleep-deprived, and jet-lagged, and my contacts had been in for 24 hours or so.
There’s kind of a long story behind the headdress.
Anyway, that’s what I look like and what I do with it most of the time. What kind of glasses do you think I should get? (They don’t have to go with the headdress.)
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Since you have a rectangular face, you’re going to want a rounder frame, generally the opposite shape from the shape of your face is what you want in your glasses.
Are you drawn to anything in particular?
I asked my optician about the face shape-glasses shape issue, and she said that was sort of a myth. You should just get the glasses that you are drawn to.
My 2 cents.
I’m terrible about picking out glasses shapes for my own face, so I wouldn’t even begin to offer advice!
But, a few friends of mine have gotten glasses online from zennioptical.com, and have said they work fine. The glasses are pretty cheap, so one of my friends got a few pairs in various styles. I’m planning on ordering a pair from there when I get a new prescription.
Anyway, that might be an affordable way to try out some different shapes and styles.
I used to have the frame-less ones, which were nice because they made it seem like I wasn’t wearing glasses (I’m pro-contacts because of the peripheral vision they offer). They were the bendy metal, a brilliant invention that cut way down on the number of glasses I’ve snapped in half.
Glasses anecdote: I first got glasses when I was 11, and had the unfortunate idea of choosing frames called “blurple.” And that’s exactly what they looked like and what I had to wear every day until I was 16 and begged my parents for contacts. Let this be a warning to you: avoid the blurple frames.
I love the advice from Anjie at YouLookFab on choosing glasses, especially about looking for frames that “lift” at the outer corners.
I really like strong colors and bold frames that show that I’m wearing glasses on purpose – these are my current specs, and I also wear this pair of Lafonts a lot(excuse the wee beastie on my shoulder).
You’ve got such great, well-defined brows. So you could pull off bold specs but your face could also carry really minimalist stuff. What do you look like in your current glasses?
Have you thought of Photoshopping some different frames over pictures of your face? If there isn’t already an app to do that at one of the big optician company websites, then what was all this noise about a “21st century” all about?
You’re one of the few people I know who could actually carry off “scary-substitute-teacher” big pointy frames with style and grace. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you should.
Glasses have been obtained — and Jennifer, they are LaFonts! Sort of hard to describe, but I’ll post a picture when I get them.
They’re pretty fashion-statement-y, but that’s what I wanted … I usually wear contacts, and only wear glasses when I feel like a change.