Jan

24

Top Ways to Choose Sunnies

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Choose sunnies can be a daunting task, especially when you consider how expensive a decent brand-name pair can be. Should you go with the currently popular MiuMiu brand or the more timeless Oliver Peoples’ look? There are a few top ways to choose or at least narrow down your search, here they are:

First, choose a brand that seems to coincide with your lifestyle. No Alexander McQueen or Jimmy Choo if you are not a huge fashion fan or a non city dweller. Instead, if you love country music and football don’t be ashamed to slap on a pair of manly Police sunglasses and join the throng of other guys wearing similar looks. The worst thing you can do is get a pair that doesn’t suit you, people will think you are trying too hard or just plain fashionable inept.

Second, choose a design that compliments your face structure, color and hair design. Don’t just pick up the fad you currently see on MTV. You might end up looking like a tool or a fashion virgin. What happens in Hollywood shouldn’t have much of a bearing on your life, and especially not on your clothing choices.

Third, think about comfort and long-term use. Will you want these sunglasses at all occasions? Are they equally useful to you at a wedding and a funeral? Are they versatile? Do they look like something that will blend into your wardrobe and look like it belongs?

Finally, think about the accessories you’ll need and buy them at the same time. A carrying case, lens cleaning cloth, mini screw kit or repair kit, and cleaning solution. Have all of this ready when you purchase your sunnies to keep them in tip top shape.

Jan

18

How to Take Care of Eyeglasses

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If you’ve just spent a great deal of money on designer eyeglasses then you’ll want to take care of them in the best possible way. You can’t just wipe down your designer Ralph Lauren glasses and have them still look identical in a year and a half. No, you’ll need to up your ‘home care’ procedures to include a few new tricks to keeping your eyeglasses perfect for much, much longer.

First, soak your eyeglasses overnight. The paint on the frames will protect the plastic or metal from rusting or peeling. If you soak them overnight, any grease or hard material stuck to the lenses can easily and without resistance, fall off. If you have tough stains, a bit of soap in the water should do the trick. You should only have to soak them once a month or so.

Second, blow dry the lenses and frames using either a hair dryer or a puff ball. Again, this step is only if you just soaked them or if there are large amounts of dust or sand on your lenses.

Third, wipe down the lenses with a lens cleaning cloth. If you purchased your eyeglasses through this site you should have received a free lens cleaning kit that contains the cloth you need.

Holding your glasses up to the light, check that everything looks clean and that there are no spots on your lenses. If not, you are done!

During the day, make sure not to touch the lenses or wipe them down with anything other than the appropriate lens cloth. Some fabrics are abrasive and leave microscopic damage to the lens or scratch off the coatings over time.

Jan

17

Sunglasses for Hot weather and extreme heat

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The last thing you want in really hot weather is a bunch of plastic on your face creating a mini greenhouse around your eyes. You don’t want giant plastic Prada shades sticking to your face, slipping off your nose because of the sweat and weight around the sunglasses. You need lightweight frames, no-slip nose pieces and no metal that will super-heat your face. The prime sunglasses for extreme heat- Nike.

Nike, you say? Well, take another look at the Nike line. They no longer look like overly athletic gear purely for the sporting man or woman. Now the designs have a bit of versatility to them. You can wear them out to dinner as well as on the beach. You can wear Nike eyewear anywhere and not look like the man or woman obsessed with your sport.

For women, Bolle sunglasses are the perfect blend of fashion, athleticism and performance-enhancing attributes that mean you can wear these sunglasses in extreme weather, especially heat. You need lightweight plastic or extremely thin metal frames, and Bolle can give this to you.

Finally, you can slap on any old frames, trash if they aren’t designer, but they will scratch, fog, slip off your nose and weigh too much to be comfortable. In extreme heat you need more than the average pair of sunglasses can offer, you need high quality frames, lenses with all the additional coatings and comfort that will last despite the weather and last all day long. Think designer and you get high fashion for sure, but you also get quality and when the sun comes up in Australia, you don’t want to be caught in the heat with poor quality sunnies.

Jan

11

New Year’s Resolution – Be More Fashionable!

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Welcome to 2011! Oh baby, will this year be your best! Not only have you made a list of resolutions but, with the first days of 2011 already gone, you’ve either started on your fresh new life or you’re making plans to! This year will be amazing, and this year belongs to you. Slap on those newly acquired Rudy Project sunglasses and hit the road on your Canondale bike—you’ll be entering the Tour de France in no time. Slip into the Jimmy Choo heels you adore and Versace sunglasses and start designing, you’ll be at Paris Fashion Week this fall. Aim high, dream big and don’t skimp along the way and 2011 will belong to you!

One simple new year’s resolution you can check off your list this month is to be more fashionable and chic. People do assess what you wear, and you can’t just jump online and redesign yourself in one afternoon. However, with a bit of work and a lot of dedication you’ll be able to find a new look on your budget. First, don’t skimp on accessories, that’s where you’ll make your splash. Find vintage clothing at the second hand shops, and find designer accessories online for cheaper than in stores. Now you have a basic plan for acquiring fashionable clothing to help you with this simple but transforming new year’s resolution.

A great place to start is with designer sunglasses or eyeglasses. You’ll be able to frame your entire wardrobe around the sunglasses you love. This will also help you hone in on what style you think would suit you. Search for a pair of sunnies you adore then start looking for tops that match, and bottoms that match that. Before you know it you’ll be looking like a star and all thanks to your first, smart accessory choice.

Jan

2

Sunglasses are Standard Required Material for New Zealand School Children – Should Australia Follow Suit?

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New Zealand’s school children are required to have sunglasses as part of their normal ‘school supplies check list’ of materials. Aside from your normal pencils, notebooks and erasers, a nifty pair of youth MiuMiu sunnies is a great addition. This teaches children at an early age the importance of protecting their eyes from the sun’s harmful rays. Likewise, New Zealand’s children are taught by the sheer fact that the sunnies are part of mom’s back-to-school-shopping that they are in fact a highly important and fashionable accessory.

Should Australia’s school children also be encouraged to bring sunglasses to school each day? We all remember playing ‘how long can you stare at the sun’ in primary school, these kinds of activities could have been avoided with early education on eye protection and proper eyewear use. Australia’s youth need not suffer the same idiocies as the current adults.

Following New Zealand’s lead leaves a foul taste in any true blooded Aussie heart, but in this instance, the kiwis may be on to something. Educating and protecting our youth is a surefire way to install good behavior and lifelong habits that protect their health and encourage them to pass these behaviors to their own children someday.

In that the kiwis have advised parents to encourage better vision protection and education, they have inspired parents to behave as they already naturally do, just with a bit of guidance. Pencils and paper help students learn and retain, but without vision education is much more difficult, and it reminds parents (teachers and students as well) how vital early prevention and detection can be.