Do you wear glasses?

I like wearing contacts, but I haven't got around to updating my prescrip in two years. I'm just a lazy bastard.

http://art-ificial.com/glasses.jpg

PS: i forgot your CDs today, i told your wife to leave me a scathing message for me at home.

I do.

i heard she's gonna kill you with her hate

Also... contacts. Ok. Will *finally* try to follow that advice. Perhaps next month or so.

But with all the close-up work and reading I was doing, I needed to wear my glasses full-time by 18. I started not being able to recognize people without my glasses. After my first semester at university, I got soft contact lenses. They were great! I could see everything and was free of clunky frames.

Dee, I urge you to try contacts. Initially I, too, was scared of putting something directly on my eyeball, but I got used to it pretty easily -- less than a week. And the immediate benefits certainly outweighed the early trepidation.

Because I kept tearing my lenses, I switched to disposables in 1990. It was much cheaper and more sanitary than regular soft lenses.

Since coloured lenses are only slightly more expensive than clear disposables, I splurge and have fun with it. I like to do a David Bowie effect and wear one green/blue lense in one eye and a clear one in the other (natural colour is hazel).

Half the time I wear glasses to give my eyes a rest from contacts. It reduces the potential for irritation and infection. Plus, I do think that certain types of myopia can be reversed or prevented from worsening if I don't wear visual correction all the time. Does this make me as mad as George Bernard SHaw? My optometrist said I became myopic because of all the reading and computer work I did -- my eyes had to focus so much on things up close for 10-12 hours a day that they became unable to focus on things further away. Makes sense to me. So, he advised that I not wear visual correction when I'm in for a long stretch of reading or computer work as such habits will worsen my myopia. So glasses are better (easier to remove) when I'm holed up doing a lot of reading. When I am active or going out to a potentially violent gig, I'll wear contacts. Following my optometrist's advice seems to have worked because prior to following his advice, my visual acuity was worsening dramatically every year I was checked. But I have been able to keep the same prescription for nearly 10 years now.

I have superlightweight lenses, but I'm still conscious of the weight of the frames on my nose and ears. 8 ( I'm considering lasik surgery, but I'm scared of the potential complications.

But can't deny the dominant convention that glasses are unsexy (cf. Marilyn Monroe in How to Marry a Millionaire): A family friend told me that when my mother was at university, she was too vain to wear her glasses even though she really needed them. As she was supposedly the most beautiful girl at school, people thought she was being stuck up because she ignored them in passing. She wasn't ignoring them on purpose -- she simply couldn't see them. This is funny to me because I think my mother is hardly vain now. And she always wear glasses. She isn't interested at all in wearing contacts.

And knowing contacts can cause serious eye infections has now put me right off them anyway.

Anyone ever considered lasik etc correction?

My best friend and both his parnents had lasik surgery performed on them. Pretty happy with the results for the most part, but he says every once in a while there's a lil blurry spot, as if he is
wearing a dirty contact.

your opinions on these?

http://store1.yimg.com/I/eyeglasses_1776_10086788

see also:

http://store1.yimg.com/I/eyeglasses_1776_32173717

or

http://store1.yimg.com/I/eyeglasses_1776_36982300

http://userpic.livejournal.com/9770186/480800

this is me in my current ones.

Recently this is happening less, but I've also started to get tiny across-the-forehead-beind-the-eyes headaches in frnt of computers.

I am scared to have an eye test because I am broke and cannot afford glasses.

The thing that I'm a big fan of is getting standard issue NYC FAP indie glasses, but in different colours. I'm wearing pretty blue turquoise ones that match my eyes at the moment!

I need new ones. Mine are thin burgundy frames, and the frames are oval, and I dont think quite suit my face (which is quite wide and almost squarish). I think I'd suit a wider, narrower pair, sad to say I think I'd suit obvious emo glasses.

I'm a bit cross with the trendiness of glasses lately, as I was saying on LJ the other day either kids these days wank too much, or a hella lot of people are wearing 0 prescriton frames for the look. Which makes me mad, cuz I got teased for my glasses in school, and I have no choice - I have to wear them, I'm as short sighted as Mr Magoo :(

Old pic of me but one that shows the glasses/face ratio nicely:

http://people.connect.net.au/~trace/me.jpg