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Totaly, completely and utterly o/t - sunglasses!
I've posted this in baby, toddler and pregnancy to get as many opinions as possible!
I've recently decided to stop wearing contact lenses completely, I was wearing them so infrequently that it wasn't worth paying for them any more. In the summer I live in sunglasses though so I'm going to have to buy a pair of prescription sunglasses. Now, I'm stupidly shortsighted so my lenses are expensive and it seems daft to put them in cheap frames that I'll get fed up of quickly so I want a really nice pair of designer sunglasses, but which ones? ? I've just had a look and I am completely and tottaly overwhelmed and can't decide where to start. My budget is ??200 absolute maximum for the frames and they need to be plastic frames to take the lenses, and big enough to hide behind to keep me happy. Can anyone point me in the direction of styles that they really love to get me started? Pretty please
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I've recently decided to stop wearing contact lenses completely, I was wearing them so infrequently that it wasn't worth paying for them any more. In the summer I live in sunglasses though so I'm going to have to buy a pair of prescription sunglasses. Now, I'm stupidly shortsighted so my lenses are expensive and it seems daft to put them in cheap frames that I'll get fed up of quickly so I want a really nice pair of designer sunglasses, but which ones? ? I've just had a look and I am completely and tottaly overwhelmed and can't decide where to start. My budget is ??200 absolute maximum for the frames and they need to be plastic frames to take the lenses, and big enough to hide behind to keep me happy. Can anyone point me in the direction of styles that they really love to get me started? Pretty please
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I would go to optician and ask which frames you can get tinted lenses in. I went with hubby recently and some styles were OK but some they said wouldn't take the tinted lense.
I've got a few really good pairs between ??150-200 but Archie just pulled them off my face so I ended up in a cheap pair from Topshop ! S x
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I know this isnt your question, but you mention you are short sighted. Im guessing your sight cant be that bad if you dont wear them much? I wear contat elnses 24/7 so dont need the hassle of taking them in and out and i just buy cheap sunglasses!
I got my sunglasses mainly for driving and "thought" it would be OK to go for big frames to cover the thickness of the lenses but honestly I hate wearing them because they make my eyes look like milk bottles so I generally only wear them in the car (on my own) and if I'm at home in the garden!I was so disapointed. Hubby has lovely Ray Bans which he did get with the thinner lenses and I am so jealous.lol
Fortunately tho mine didn't cost me the earth as when I got my glasses you could have sunglasses for half price and as I didn't go for the thinner lenses they didn't bulk up the price. If your going to be wearing them all the time in summer I would really make sure you will be comfortable looking a bit sorry to say it but odd- even Lily thinks Mummy looks funny in her sunnies!lol Also maybe look at different opticians D&A which I use have some good offers on atm and I'm sure others do. Sorry no help with styles- will try and find a pic with mine so you can see what I mean although you have to promise not to laugh!lol
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Thats the link there you should be able to view it...pic doesn't make them look so bad (probably why its on fb!) but you kind of get the gist. Didn't mean to make the decision harder just if I had known I would have got thinner lenses- maybe the ones you have been looking at would be OK if you can get them with slightly thinner lenses and not the ultra thin.x
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