Face facts for real specs appeal!

As we drive further towards the holiday season (huzzah!) and bright sunny skies are no longer a myth, it's well and truly time to grab your sunglasses and tootle off to the park. But if we're honest, we're unlikey to grab a pair we already own - bright skies mean prime shopping time!

So, armed with your flexible friend - where do you start in picking the perfect pair?

Square face: You'll need slightly curved frames with the top high enough on the face to downplay the jawline.
Round face: Best to pick straight or angular frames in a deep colour with coloured lenses.
Triangular face: Select sleek oval lenses with coloured frames.
Oblong face: Remember that big is beautiful and go for a wide spanning frame to cover a broad section of the face.
Oval face: It's best to choose a frame that proportional to your face size.

Okay, so the frame style's sorted. What's next?

Sunglasses aren't meant to just be stylish, remember they need to function well too. It's best to take your eyes' needs in to consideration when picking the lenses.

The colour of lens can make or break if you'll continue to use your sunglasses after initial purchase, or whether they'll just become a fad buy.

Pick:
Grey tints to reduce brightness without distorting colour.



Brown and amber tints to reduce glare, including that created by sunlight, which can make things appear hazy.


Fashionable yellow tints to reduce the haze from sunlight and sharpen vision, but they cause greater colour distortion.

Green tints to reduce glare and help filter out some sunlight. They also provide good contrast between objects.


Rose tints to use in outdoor activities as it provides a good contrast for objects viewed against blue or green backgrounds.

Kim Kardashian - a big Jimmy Choo fan

Kim Kardashian’s fan site just goes to illustrate her love of the designer Jimmy Choo. Not only did she attend Jimmy’s store opening, but she has been spotted with sister Khloe on a Jimmy Choo shopping spree in Sydney, wearing…well Jimmy Choo of course!


Pictured is Kim, wearing a pair of Jimmy Choo marge havana sunglasses.

Oversize sunglasses reduce health risks.

Oversized sunglasses are all the rage for designer sunglasses producers. From Chanel to YSL the consensus is; if it isn’t chunky, forget it!


Celebrities love it, not only are they draped in the latest fashion, but it makes for excellent shade from the paparazzi, perfect if you’re stumbling out of a nightclub at 3am and would like to hide the night gone by! Alla, Lady Gaga! After all why would you need sunglasses in the dead of night?


Yet, there is another plus from these bulky sunglasses, as research from the vision council suggests. The area of skin around the eye is very delicate, therefore is at high levels of risk from UV rays. The extra protection provided by the designer sunglasses, not only reduces the risk of skin cancer, but also reduces squinting, which causes “crows feet.”


Perfect if you’re looking for an excuse to splash out on those must have glasses! Enjoy!

Malaika Arora sports Jimmy Choo’s new sunglasses

Finally the moment we’ve all been waiting for, but it has been well worth the wait! Sendoptics have now launched their Jimmy Choo sunglasses range. What a treat! So, what can you expect from the “brand designer of the year 2008”? Well nothing less than 14 pairs of sheer beauty of course!

Malaika Arora has been seen sporting a pair of Jimmy Choo's new glasses, needless to say she looks truly stunning.

Should Jimmy Choo’s range of shoes and bags be anything to go by, you can expect to see more of fashionable glasses in the papers, even on the set of shows such as Desperate Housewives and Dirty Sexy Money.

Truth is, any fashion conscious person can see the stunning blend of classic with contemporary that Choo has managed to design into his range of sunglasses, such as Jimmy Choo Karin. What is a little harder to spot however is the amount of craftsmanship that goes into a piece like this.

Notorious for quality, Jimmy Choo’s sunglasses are sure to fit the new durable fashion, which emerged from the Milan fashion show last week.

Should you wish to beat the rush, and grab your hands on a pair of these dazzling beauties, then click on the link and these trendy á la mode glasses will be yours just in time for sunny spring!

These are killer... from FFFFound Sunglasses

Credit Crunch Chic: Cheap Interim or Classic Investment buys? That is the question.

Well, you can't have failed to have heard how people are spending less yadda yadda yadda.

The real proposition is: instead of questioning how much you should spend on accessories etc, perhaps we should be asking how much wear will we get out of something we buy for a quick fashion fix?

Long term, emotionally and economically it makes sense to invest only in items that we genuinely adore and make us feel and look good.

The cheap fast-fashion delivered by the high street over the last couple of years, as we've discovered, only lasts a couple of wears/washes: it's here where we think it should stop.

Reuters report this week that production of Italian eyewear is being hit hard by the economic downturn. A world leader in the industry, they've found their main export market to the US dropping by more than 20% at a time of year when sales should be flourishing.

Play your part in keeping it all going by investing in a pair of sunglasses to keep forever. And this pair of Chanel havana frames with pearl detail at the temple is one we're looking to cherish...

Aussie cull on colour deficient lenses

Crazy as it sounds, last week it was reported by the Canberra Times that shades with brown, yellow or reddish tinted lenses will be unacceptable for driving in.

Those with rose-tinted rage were told that traffic-lights use a green-blue hue to help colour deficient road users (about 8% of men) detect green traffic signals, whilst sunglasses with a brown lense designed to block the glare from blue skies actually end up blocking out the blue light emitted from traffic-lights.

Professor Stephen Dain of the University of New South Wales, Australia and former head of the School of Optometry and Vision Science discovered that in a study of "49 colour-deficient males and 20 with normal vision were given various tinted sunglasses and asked to identify colours of simulated traffic lights.

"About 20 per cent of colour-deficient subjects wearing tinted glasses could not correctly identify the lights. His report notes that "response times for colour-deficient people were slower than colour normals for red and yellow" lights."

The interesting news for those style, rather than, science conscious wearers of sunglasses is that according to Professor Dain, European countries are trying to avoid imposing legislation on sunglasses manufacturers in an effort not to hamper sales.

If you fancy being particularly responsible, have a look at some high standard lenses to protect your peepers...