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Understanding the Different Types of Eyewear

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What is eyewear? Search it on Google, and Wikipedia will tell us that eyewear is any items or accessories worn on or over the eyes. The purpose of wearing varies from fashion to protection and to visual improvement. With these, different eyewear Philippines is piling up the shelves. Common forms of Eyewear Eyeglasses Basically, eyeglasses consist of glass or hard plastic lens, mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person’s eyes. Glasses utilize a bridge over the nose and hinged arms which rest over the ears to keep them in place. The main purpose of this eyewear is to correct or improve the vision of people with nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), presbyopia, and astigmatism. Types of eyeglasses includes: Prescription Eyeglasses Reading Glasses Anti-Radiation Glasses Safety Glasses Sunglasses Informally called shades or sunnies, Sunglasses are a form of eyewear designed primarily to prevent bright sunlight and high-energy visible light from discomfor...

2021 Sunglasses Trend: Harnessing better first impression

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What was once thought as a tool for a stereotypical nerdy character on TV or movie has grown into one of the most coveted accessories today. Sunglasses are for sale in the Philippines because of its huge appeal to various demographics. We’ll walk you through the following sunglasses trends to try out in 2021, but we also leave you with a caveat at the end of this article. Retro-styled Eyewear Surely, you have this classic character that you somehow use as a peg in fashion. The round retro frames of the 1920s and 1930s are making a comeback with a twist! Aside from variation in size, the type of material and embellishment used in sunglasses that are for sale in the Philippines add more character in this trend. Choose from classic retro round to novelty glasses adorned with crystals and bright-colored lenses. Round glasses suit square and rectangular shaped faces. Aviator Glasses This style has become part of history. That classic pair of aviators was popularly worn by General Doug...

How eyeglasses can teach your kids a number of life lessons

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Visionary business executive Sean Covey once said, “When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription.” True enough, finding a pattern or model in life is integral to one’s journey to growing up. Through age and wisdom, one must grow gracefully. Just like your child or someone dear to you. This Christmas, teach them a number of life lessons through the lens.    Critical Thinking: Finding beauty in everything Gifting eyeglasses for kids this season will give them an opportunity to appreciate the good and the not-so-good aspects of life. It is important that at an early age, they are scaffolded into finding the beauty in every circumstance. By doing so, we teach them how to think critically—how to look beyond the surface. According to a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley, children of today tend to be smarter at figuring solutions to certain problems. They are focused at learning about the w...

3 Common Diabetes Related Eye Problems

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When your vision blurs, it’s easy to think that all you have to do is choose eyeglasses frames that fit you to a tee and have it furnished with prescription lenses. This is true if your condition is related to your eyes’ focus but some eye problems are rooted in other long standing diseases like diabetes. Diabetes is a disease where sugar levels in the blood is too high because of a lack of insulin. Having too much sugar in the blood causes serious problems to the rest of your body including your heart, kidneys, nerves, and eyes. Below are the most common eye problems that may occur with escalating diabetes. Vision Blurring Right off the bat, it’s important to raise awareness that vision blurring isn’t always caused by refractive error such as astigmatism or near/farsightedness. Diabetes is a disorder that affects many body parts and that includes the eyes. Vision blurring caused by diabetes is more specifically diabetic retinopathy and you can’t correct it with just a pair...

Shutter Shades: Do They Actually Work?

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Eyewear trends come and go. Some of them come and stay for a long time like aviator shades, while others disappear only to be rediscovered again like oversized shades. When it comes to sunglasses for sale in the Philippines , of the trends that we are familiar with is the shutter shades. It’s such an iconic part of recent fashion that even social media apps like Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, and Instagram stickers and filters feature them. But regardless of popularity, the question still stands: do shutter shades actually work? Shutter shades gained popularity as one of Kanye West’s reinvention of the regular shades; it was designed by Alain Mikli for the international hip-hop sensation. The shutter shades first saw the light of day in the premier of Kanye West’s video for Stronger, a song made more popular with the chorus sample from electronic duo Daft Punk. Shutter shades are also called venetian blind glasses, slatted shades, or Kanye West glasses. Technic...

Bold Eyeglasses Frame Trends to get you through 2019

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This year, fashion trends take a sharp turn in the same way that we’re trying to turn what was once in the undefining previous year into a definitively good 2019. With how sudden things are panning out for change, one word comes to mind when it comes to fashion: bold. So here are some of the fearless predictions from around the internet. Loud or Clear Colors Loud colors are all the rave but so are clear, transparent, and translucent  eyeglasses frames . Red and bright pink are going to be popular takes on Pantone’s 2019 Color of the Year, Living Coral. Off course, black is always in but so is bright blue and green. Clear and translucent varieties are also subtle trendy alternatives for that more professional look, and even the simple every day look. A balance between the two is translucent frames with a millennial pink hue! Wildly Horned Rimmed If anything is staying on trend this year, it’s the horn-rimmed glasses with a feral twist. The frames are so wide th...

Go Driving With Transition Lenses

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Going for an early morning drive is a great way to start the day. There’s less traffic and you’ll get to see the sun rising. It’s all good until you get hit with the glare. That’s the time when you need to break out the eyeglasses with transition lenses . Transition Lenses, What are They? Transition lenses, or photochromic lenses, to keep things simple, are lenses that adjust to changes in light to optimize your eyesight. If it’s exposed to UV rays, the lenses trigger a chemical reaction to darken the lenses, and it lightens up back to a clear state when you’re back indoors or during the night. The lenses only react to short wavelengths so even if you look at electrical lighting, it won’t change at all. To give you a clear idea on how transition lenses work and how it also differs from polarized lenses, watch this video below: Back on the Road Now back to driving, with ordinary prescription eyeglasses, you’re bound to face the sun’s glare in the morning and aft...