Living with eyeglasses is not a disability, so you can improve your fashion and looks as well as use practical strategies for taking care of your eyeglasses. Though many people are opting for contacts or surgery, eyeglasses remain one of the most useful human inventions as they are relatively cheap, solve your immediate problem of visual impairment and can correct eye problems if worn from an early age. Limitations of eyeglasses include: keeping track of them, wearing them while doing sports, glare, looking nerdy and changing prescription needs.
Instructions
1 Avoid losing your eyeglasses by always putting them in their case and adding a smart key locator to your glasses case. If you take your glasses off on a regular basis, it is a good idea to have a locator on your glasses case, so, like a mobile phone, you can always locate them by sound. The idea is that when you lose your glasses, you push a button and can find them.
2 Tennis players often wear glasses with sports bands because contacts can get knocked to the side in the middle of a match.
Before doing sports affix a sports band to your eyeglasses. Sports bands fit around your eyeglasses, so they wrap around the back of your head. There are many brands available. Alternatively, you can always purchase specialized sports eyeglasses that are made of all plastic and have the band already attached.
3 Solve the glare problem by buying lenses that automatically darken, or, if you are on a budget, use car window tinting adhesive over your lenses to color them. Using car window tint is a great trick to tint your lenses any color and block out ultraviolet light on a budget. Cut out two small squares from the self-adhesive car window tint and then paste to the front of your glasses in the same way you paste to a car window, using a credit card to smooth out any bubbles.
4 Avoid looking nerdy with your glasses by selecting thin frames and fashionably sized lenses. Confidence also goes a long way. It is an investment to get designer frames, but designer frames are still far cheaper than surgery and since they will be with you for a long time, it is worth the extra money.
5 The lenses of your eyes will change over time requiring a new eyeglasses prescription.
See your optician regularly to assure that your glasses have the right prescription. Eyes change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, but it is important that you always have the right lenses. Go to you optician once a year for an eye check to make sure you have the right prescription. You always can sell your old frames or donate them when your prescription changes.
Tips & Warnings
When buying eyeglasses, try to find a buy one, get one free, deal so you always have a backup or can one pair tinted for bright summer days.
Even with tinted lenses, never look directly at the sun as this will cause eye damage.
If you are playing contact sports, then you need to get appropriate plastic (shatter-proof) lenses as broken glass could pierce your eye.