Jun

24

5 Reasons to Love Serengeti Sunglasses

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For summer, there are few designs more perfectly suited for both the city and the outback than Serengeti. These sunnies are perfect for any warm climate and offer great protection with casual style at an affordable price. Need more reasons to love Serengeti?—Here are just a few to get you started.

1. Serengeti sunnies have perfectly tinted lenses in a soft brown/orange hue that actually works to increase visual contrast and cut down on peripheral glare. The hue is also visually attractive on almost every skin color as a casual and yet coordinated color that has an overall adventurous and calculated look that can match any outfit.

2. Serengeti frames are made from sturdy, high-quality materials that make them suitable for the great outdoors as well as the cement jungle of city life. With a dynamic lens hue and beautifully accented frame colors, you’ll have a great looking set of sunnies that are top quality and long lasting.

3. Serengeti sunglasses are perfect for a broad range of sports and hobbies, including driving, shooting, biking, hiking and day-to-day urban use. Because of the wonderfully and expertly tinted lenses, Serengeti sunglasses are especially popular in the driving world, both for casual drives and for professional and stunt drivers. For driving, you really want light weight, tan or orange tinted sunglasses that block glare and decrease the shock from reflected light (headlights, for example).

4. Serengeti sunglasses have a prestige to them similar to Ray Ban in that a very distinct class of people wear them. Yachting, driving, and golf are just some of the sports and life-styles that are in love with Serengeti sunglasses.

5. For designer sunglasses, Serengeti are surprisingly affordable. And this is especially cool since they are frames most commonly worn by the upper crust and those obsessed with sporting and hobbies.

Jun

17

Celebrities that make sunnies cool

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Lindsey Lohan in there Dior sunglasses is a great example of a celebrity who has found the perfect look for her face shape and color. Though she wore this getup while appearing before a judge recently on several charges, she still managed to look professional, crisp, clean and most importantly—not like a menace to society! She makes these old-fashioned, throw-back frames look extremely modern, chic and cool. Thanks Lindsey Lohan for giving a nod at fashion the correct way. For a bit more ‘out-there’ coolness, take a look at Elton John’s sunglass-wearing career. From strange piano and sunglasses album covers to random appearances in public and on stage in cool sunnies, he never failed to entertain and impress with his cool eyewear fashion. In the same vein, Bono, from U2, is pretty much famous for his red sunnies. He started wearing them early in his career as a way to block some of the stage glare, and they clung to him like part of his personality.

Finally, an example of someone who makes sunnies look uncool, and completely horrible. You may know and love Lady Gaga, but I’m certainly no fan. While she claims she is rejecting the way our society sees women by dressing and acting in an homogenous way, I think she dresses and acts however she wants and then hires a superstar publicist to come up with rationalizations after the fact. She appeared on Larry King Live on the 1st of June in the most ridiculous sunglasses imaginable. They made her head look like a science experiment. They were simple, round black frames and lenses that blocked her entire face. Whereas Elton John made silly sunglasses fun and cool, Lady Gaga is making them inaccessible and awkward.

Jun

11

Environmentally Friendly Fashion

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For those of you who love nature, care for the environment and want to see a sustainable future for our grandchildren yet still look fashionable and chic—there are finally sunglasses out there that are friendly to your dual purposes. One of the leading contenders in environmentally friendly eyewear is Oakley, whose Gascan line honors the tradition of good fashion as well as sustainability. The frame is made from excess materials left over from the manufacture of other Oakley products, and its bamboo emblem is not only adorable, but also a sustainable resource that has been proven to be better for the environment than plastics or most other kinds of tree. They look chic, clean and the high fashion won’t set you back any carbon points (unless you use air fright, that is). In addition, the sunglasses come in a bamboo, organic certified storage bag. Some of the proceeds even go to a sports-environmental organization.

A lesser known company is working along the same lines by manufacturing entire frames out of bamboo. Kayu also donates $50 of every paid bought to Unite for Sight, a charity aimed at eliminating preventable blindness. Smart Buy Glasses also donates funds from each sale to this worthy cause. (http://www.smartbuyglasses.com/community). Another, very similar company is iWood. Their frames are made from exotic woods hand fashioned by American high school students to help teach them a trade while also earning college credits. The designs are modern, chic and fresh and the frames are smartly crafted with non-toxic glues and high quality products.

Jun

2

Eyewear and Headgear – Simply too much!

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We know celebrities are trying to keep a low profile when out on the town, but that is no excuse for abusing fashion! Look at what too much is doing to Rihanna in these Ray Ban Wayfarer sunnies (image) and hoodie. She looks like a stalker more than a superstar, and that look simply isn’t flattering! There is a right way to do eyewear and headgear, and some of the superstars have got it together…while others of them could take a few lessons in stardom!

So, how to you do the eyewear and headgear combo successfully? Well, you might want to take a lesson from Dita Von Teese on that (image), or Katy Perry—who also does it very successfully. The hat-sunglasses combo is not an easy one to pull off, and it takes real coordination and fashion gusto to even attempt such high-fashion pizzazz.

A few things to consider while trying the hat-sunglasses combo. First, you’ll want to choose one of the two accessories to be the stand out piece and let the secondary piece take the back burner. In addition, you’ll have to prove that you mean business by making this a fashion statement instead of a fashion cop out. More makeup is actually necessary with the combo then less. Look at what Rihanna could have looked like if she had done up her makeup and hair. This would have been a fashionable choice instead of a designer blunder. Finally, if your sunglasses are your stand out item, then you’ll want to make sure they are designer grade. If your hat or other headgear are your headliner item then make it something unique, bold and daring. Otherwise the designer eyewear will outshine the headgear.