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How to select the perfect frame to suit your face.

Here is the standard guideline for:

Round- Create definition and structure with rectangular frames

Square- Angular faces is soften by rounder frames

Oval- Square and bold shapes will enhance your features 

Heart- Balance your features with deeper frames such as the classic aviator style.

  With recent focus on body image, defining beauty and gender neutral styling, is no better time to throw out the rule book.

Set your own trend and embrace your unique features. 

"We design eyewear to celebrate the diversity of faces and the uniqueness of individuals. - Barbara McReynolds & Gai Gherardi L.a.Eyeworls 

It’s disheartening how people start to see all their imperfections when choosing a pair of spectacles. 

Opticians often hear:  

‘my nose is too dig’ ‘my face is too round’ ‘my ears are not even’  

  ‘Wabi-Sabi’ - The Japanese philosophy that finds the beauty in imperfection.

      ‘sabi’ alludes to the beauty or serenity that comes with age.                           

Style trends for 2018 is Maximalism 

Max on colour, max on texture with maximum style.

Intense warm tones of purples and burnt reddish hues.

Matt-powdery finishes and natural shapes to frame the face.

Trust in the advise of your experience dispensing optician or optical adviser to guide you in selecting a work of art for your face.  

Go with what feels comfortable for you and enhance your features and reflects your personality.

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5 Top Foods for Eye Health

Kale: See the Light

This leafy green is a rich source of lutein and zeaxanthin, which are related to vitamin A and beta carotene, and are believed to protect eye tissues from sunlight damage and reduce the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration.

Other good sources of these peeper-friendly nutrients include dark green leafy vegetables like collard greens, turnip greens and spinach, broccoli, peas, kiwi, red grapes, yellow squash, oranges, corn, mangoes and honeydew melon.

And kale isn’t just a one-note food — it contains vitamin C and beta carotene, other eye-friendly nutrients. Your body needs fat to absorb lutein and zeaxanthin, so be sure to eat them with a bit of healthy fat like a drizzle of olive oil.

Sweet Potatoes: The Color of Health

These orange tubers are a good source of beta carotene, which may slow progress of macular degeneration. Your body converts beta carotene to vitamin A, a nutrient that helps prevent dry eyes and night blindness. Beta carotene and vitamin A also help fight off eye infections.

Sweet potatoes not your favorite? For beta carotene, try other deep orange foods like carrots and butternut squash, plus dark green foods like spinach and collard greens. And liver, milk and eggs are other great sources of vitamin A.

But don’t count on popping a pill to get these nutrients — your best sources of vitamins and antioxidants are from whole foods, since it may be a food’s combination of nutrients that have a synergistic healing effect.

And, like lutein and zeaxanthin, beta carotene and vitamin A are absorbed best when eaten with a little healthy fat like olive oil.

Strawberries: Help You “C” Better

Now is the perfect time to get fresh, juicy strawberries, and good thing — they contain plenty of vitamin C, which is an antioxidant that can help lower your risk of cataracts.

Also be sure to load up your plate with other vitamin C-rich foods like bell peppers, broccoli, citrus (such as orange and grapefruit) and cantaloupe.

Salmon: Goodbye, Dry Eyes

Dry eyes? Omega-3 fatty acids can help alleviate the problem. Get some healthy fats every day in the form of salmon (two to three times per week), walnuts (which also include eye-healthy vitamin E), avocado, olive oil, flax seed and olives.

Salmon is also a good source of vitamin D, which helps protect against macular degeneration. You can also get vitamin D by downing sardines, mackerel, milk and orange juice fortified with vitamin D.

Green Tea: Antioxidant Powerhouse

A cup of green tea is more than relaxing and delicious — its antioxidants may help lower risk of developing cataracts and macular degeneration.

In a study reported in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers fed rats green tea extract and then examined which tissues of the eye had absorbed the most catechins, which are a type of bioflavonoid, or class of antioxidants. The results? The retina, a light-sensitive layer of tissue that lines the inner surface of the eye, had the highest concentration of catechins. It’s good news that eye tissue can absorb the antioxidants from green tea, but studies on humans will need to be done to determine its effects.

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Presbyopia.  “It’s not your eyes, it’s your age”

There is nothing more age defining than presbyopia !

Autumn is the season of presbyopia and It is very different from tired eyes or computer vision syndrome.

Presbyopia begins in most people over the age of 40, it occurs when the lens within the eye loses its elasticity and flexibility.

Returning to work after your summer holidays, where your viewing distance was into the far horizons of coastal lines and open plains, into the confined space of your computer screen and the room distance of your office working space.

Now your gaze is very “near sighted” and everything is at end of your nose. You feel you want to extend the space between yourself and everything around you !

As an optician, presbyopia was just as daunting !.

Regardless that I have spent years reassuring and dispensing practical solutions to restore ‘natural vision’ to those alarmed and afflicted by it’s onset. I quickly had to dispense a ‘remedy’ of my first progressive lenses and multi-focal contact lenses to see the fine details on instrumentation's and model numbers and measurements on spectacle frames which are tiny !

As the autumnal season draws in with less daylight hours and darker evenings over the next few weeks, there is always a surge of first timers to ‘reading glasses’ but it’s not wise to start medicating with over the counter ‘magnifying glasses’.

Get a full eye examination with an independent optician for a proper diagnosis and the correct prescriptions for what you need to see well and work well.

Many other checks are undertaken as part of an eye examination, such as ‘eye pressure’ check for glaucoma, a condition relating to family history for the over forty. Your general health such as the onset of diabetes can all have a factor on your eye health.

Your Dispensing optician will advise on the right spectacle lenses for your needs.

‘Varifocals’ are not the only solution. Occupational lenses and other options may suit your needs better.

Be expressive with your new accessory and made it a focal point, after all it’s on your face and at the end of your nose !

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