DO YOU SEE? (This is the thread for people who wear glasses.)

It's like having windows in front of your eyes!

Choosing new frames is a bit of a pain, you're right, and apparently small differences in size of lens or shape can become really magnified when you stick them on your face.

I didn't have much problem with picking out a pair cause I have such a long face that glasses make me look better. So I have been told... and I sort of agree.

(I do not trust people who don't wear glasses. I know this is a funny thing.)

I do feel a bit awkward addressing clients. I keep thinking: "maybe they prefer me to take'em off? ARE THEY LAUGHING AT MY GLASSES?"

Ah fuck it, I feel good.

-- nathalie (wotwotwot@the

I used to get bad headaches when I didn't wear glasses, so you're probably right about this. I got mine because I needed them to pass my driving test, I must have been nuts not to wear them for so many years.

They suit you & look great in the pic, anyway.

(I never had one)

(slowly starts to run away)

But she hasn't.

(far away now, hiding behind something in the distance, too far for people with glasses)

I have been wearing glasses since 8th grade; I tried contacts twice and hated them both times. The last time I wore contacts was my wedding day. (Oh, vanity.) I rarely wear them for pictures because of the flash bouncing off the lenses.

The other day my daughter's little preschool friend was upset because someone had made fun of her new glasses. I told her she looked really cool, and that she reminded me of Tina Fey, who is on tv. The little girl had no idea who I was talking about (and neither did her grandmother, who was standing there), but she did cheer up a lot.

Sexy librarian? WOOHHOOOO I like the sound of that. :-D Thanks for all the compliments. :-)

I am getting better at choosing frames - my latest ones, just over a year old apparently make me look 'sexy' according to a couple of female friends and colleagues. That's OK with me! (For the record they're bog standard Specsavers ones - I'll post a pic if I can find one, but you can probably find them in your nearest Specsavers - just ask for the ones that make Dr. C look sexy.)

I used to always wear vintage frames which are cool and funky but then I got older and didn't want to be quite so funky. Glasses are fun.

I haven't worn contacts in years and years. I got tired of the dryness and allergy-issues and have never gone back. Plus, I don't have to bother with eye makeup, hurrah!

I tell you it's a weird realization to, um, realize that I am not equipped for living on my own. I literally cannot do much more than get out of bed and pee without this piece of equipment I wear in front of my eyes. God didn't make me perfect! (As if that wasn't obvious otherwise.)

These are my glasses. They were the closest thing to generic that my eye doctor had. I love them. They're bifocals. I felt very naked for that moment it took to scan them.

my glasses with me in them.

Biggest problem with glasses: when you take them off at night and don't remember where you put them (because drunk or entertaining or etc) and can't see to find them in the morning.

Time for new specs and maybe a new eye doctor.

Then again, I do sometimes fall asleep with them on.

Rock Hardy, You must find a new eye doctor. Bifocals are the bomb.
When I'm doing extremely detailed work I wear drugstore magnifiers right over my bifocals. I asked my eye doctor if the reading part of my bifocals could be stronger, but he said I would lose range.

I think I will get a new pair soon - my eyesight improved at my last eye test. Making an appointment with the optician is so much easier than going to see a dentist or a doctor, it's all "haha! I can't even see the second row of letters without my glasses!", and then when they shine the torch in your eyes and you can see the veins in your eyes, that's fun. Though, I hear they pour some kind of fluid in your eyes if you are going for contact lenses - therefore, I will never wear contacts.

I look really really bad in glasses. I look quite bad with contacts in too, but glasses add a whole other level of badness. My face, hair and eyebrows just weren't made to have extra bits of stuff added onto my face.

my glasses just broke, and i need new ones. also: -6.5 diopters, y'all. who's blinder??

laurel, i solve that "where are my specs problem" by trying to remember where i flopped down when i got home. then i look to see where my right arm is positioned, my specs are usually within 18" of where my hand is.

but i have passed out with glasses on. no fun.

Crawling around on the floor, looking for your glasses is the worst.

However, it's a game every morning to find where I put my glasses while I was brushing my teeth.

(I don't wear glasses and probably won't need to for at least another 5 years)

I don't bring anyone with me, but shop at a really good opticians where they give me the free hi-tech eye test and will happily adjust my glasses as many times as I need, and they are very good at telling what looks good on me and won't just try to sell me the most expensive thing. Although the glasses in there are all pretty expensive. I don't care. I like expensive glasses.

I do think it's funny that when I buy new glasses, people will remark on how much they like my nose piercing. Which I have had for ten years.

I've worn glasses since college, when someone noticed that all of my photographs were slightly blurry.

Call it vanity, but I've also dodged bifocals for years now. I have a separate pair of reading glasses and just take off my regular glasses to read anything (or I tilt my head so I can peek under the lenses).

My husband says Joey Ramone.

But back to Nathalie—they ARE perfect glasses! AND they match the drapes!

The migraines sadly haven't stopped. :-(

that's so awesome.

Nath, it took me about a week to get used to my new glasses, after I"d gone without for quite a while - headaches actualy got worse, at first, while my eyes adapted, and then were gone.

I'm not very blind, but other people still can't function wearing my glasses cos I"m shortsighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other, plus astigmatism. Which means I could never get contacts - even hard ones, they'd still not even be good enough for me to drive a car in, so what's the point? I'm trying to wear my glasses all the time, these days, even clubbing, which is surprisingly easy once you get past the walk-into-hot-room-insta-fog-up thing; I think they're even protecting my eyes from the worst of what's spewed out by smoke machines.