Do you wear glasses?

Any of you longtime glasses wearers have that little indentation right along the sides of the bridge of your nose? Because I do. It's not really that noticeable, but if I press my fingers up against the sides, I can definitely feel it.

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

My old glasses used to give me those marks. My new ones are much lighter and happily leave me mark-free!

I had to get glasses when I was 16. I only wore them to see the chalkboard in Chemistry class or to watch films in the cinema.

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.

As for the thinking that glasses on girls is unsexy, I once found there was a link to a piccy of me wearing glasses on some board dedicated to eyewear fetish! Hah hah! I was more chuffed than freaked out because after looking at the piccies of other women, I decided I was in very good-looking company.

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.

-3 & -3, fuck yeah. for the past twenty years. only lately the right eye's starting to get rather, erm, weird.

(Jason D- I've got everything back to ALGD except the Palais Schaumburg CDR which is MIA now but I will look harder tomorrow.)

Being stuck with TWO pairs of crooked, breaking glasses that i'm told are impossible to fix, and no way to get new ones until thanksgiving, i am ready to swear off glasses forever in favor of contacts.

contacts are the devil's work (actually I just think everyone looks better in glasses)

I look better in contacts. But yeah, some people look better in glasses.

not if they're bent! then they look asymmetrical.

My glasses are eternally lopsided (so are my ears) its a good look to work.

I never had much luck with contacts, they never felt like they sat on my eyes right... I'd blink and they'd go out of focus by moving around on my eye. annoying.

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

Anyone ever considered lasik etc correction?

You must've not had your eyes measured correctly and got ill-fitting contacts.
As far as I know, the only way you can get infections from contacts is if you're a moron and never clean them or otherwise handle them in an unsanitary manner.

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.

My sister used to work in a laser eye surgery clinic. Don't do it. There is very little research into the long term effects of surgery. Your night vision will be fucked and its been mooted that people who have laser eye surgery should be banned from driving at night.

i wear special glasses to protect other people from my harmful radiation

is it transparent?

okay, i need a new pair of glasses.

your opinions on these?

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

every single nyc fap photo to thread!

what shape is your head

serious answer: if they look good on you, get 'em.

Sidenote: I forgot my glasses today and my eyes are killing me. Ow.

my head is large, my cranium massive.

see also:

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

or

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

I wouldn't go for anything with a thick black frame. Big round head = more oval/square lenses. Big tall head = more rounded lenses.

yeah, but i hate thin metal frames.

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

this is me in my current ones.

You should definitely get some squarer lenses.

I'm actually starting to think I need them. I've always had what Melissa describes as 'weird alien vision' upthread, able to pick out bus numbers, street signs etc from a much further distance than anyone else I've been with.

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.

I like the ones with the little bits of wire at the bottom. Those are the truly indie glasses now the emo geeks have monopolised the thick all back ones.

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!

This is me in my glasses; http://www.stylusmagazine.com/staff/nick_southall.jpg

You can't quite make it out there, but my quiff goes up like another two inches...

god I'm glad I don't have to bother with glasses cuz the only choices seem to be looking like a dork or looking like a hipster and I know I'd wind up looking like a hipster dork. (well, even more so)

Apart from the cost and my habit of loosing/ breaking things I wouldn't mind wearng glasses. I have no idea if they'd suit me though.

my glasses are my best feature

You'd look good in glasses, oops!

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

get some librarian glasses trayce! i think you should rock a more mod type of look!!

You mean like ones with a cats eye type frame maybe?

yeah yeah

Hehehe... put yer fetish away mister, you're drooling ;P

No, I am.

yeah trayce is purty

Oh you guys.... stop it!

oh alright then

*cries*

haha i am not a guy!

peeps rather than guys p'raps

I call everyone guys, s'all good ;P

Trayce, my best friend would go ga-ga for you. Totally his type.
I think those frames look good on you, but if you've worn them for awhile you're probably itchin for something new. You could pull off the librarian/retro-y look nicely methinks.

I've been wearing glasses since I was eleven. I am near sighted and do not wear my glasses usually when I am reading a book or often times working on a computer, it is just easier.

I tried contacts once and they didn't work out. I was working in a restaurant at the time and the combination of the contacts and heat whacked my eyes. I looked like a Star Trek bad guy my eyes got so blood shot. I flushed them down the toliet and went back to the specs.

The inexplicable thing about my eyes is that they have lowered my perscription both of the last two times I went to get new glasses. Either someone screwed up my perscription making my glasses a couple of times back or quitting smoking dope has improved my eye sight. It is one or the other.

My eye doctor claims that if you sit and stare at a computer all day your eyesight gets worse. Something with cramps in the eyeballs I think. He instructed me to "excercise the eyes" by looking at something very far away every now and then, so now I take eye stretching breaks when I look out the window at some trees.

This feels really silly. Has anyone else heard of this or was he pulling my leg?

Hanna, that's absolutely true. It's called eye strain. Like any other muscle, the muscles that focus the eyes can decay with lack of use. You're supposed to take a break of at least five minutes every hour to adjust and exercise your eyes. The British call this "making a cup of tea".

That's better, that's tetley.