I used to wear glasses up until the age of 12. Then I had a second eye operation and he said it was fine to stop wearing’em.

I’m off the lenses at the mo, so wearing anol’pair.

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

do your eyes turn completely blue every now and then and then reboot?

Glasses rule, contacts suck.

That’s how they stay in the eye!

I love my glasses! Been wearing them since I was 10 or something. It can be difficult shopping for them though! You always need someone else (and to be wearing contact lenses. This is vital!)!

I’d probably have lost an eye in a car crash if I didn’t wear glasses.

Ophelia quite likes’em: she’s been grabbing at’em. YAY.

I got my first glasses a couple of months back. Choosing glasses is such a pain if you’ve never worn them (at least it was in my case). Everytime I was handed a new pair I’d put them on, look in the mirror and give them back. Luckily, my sister was there to help me choose some or I’d still be in the shop now.It took a bit of time to get used to seeing them on my face but I’m starting to like it.

Nath—they are COOOOLLLL!

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.

Thanks! THEY ARE TOM FORD GLASSES. Yes, I’m a total snob. ;-) I didn’t wanna pay that much for the glasses but those were the only ones I liked. Yes, I know I could have gone to another shop, but my migraine told me to take some NOW instead of wait and be sensible. ;-)

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.

It is weird, at first, to look at your feet. They seem like they are miles away.

I bought my last pair of glasses for a huge sum on the never never (OK, six month interest free credit), but they are almost a part of my body, from the moment I rise till the moment I go to sleep they are there.

Same here Ed—I tend to get headaches if I try to do much without wearing them, so they’re on all the time. I take them off in the shower and in bed, and that’s about it.

Yes, I’m hoping my migraines are due to bad eyesight. One can hope. :-)

Glasses are the bestest thing ever. Welcome to the club!

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

all the cool kids wear glasses, nath.

I love my specs, but prefer to wear contacts when I go out on the razz because the make-up options are better and they don’t steam up. They’re daily disposables, which is very practical post-pub. Wouldn’t want to be faffing around with solutions and that when I’m in no fit state.

x and xxpost :-D

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.

Yes, I’m hoping my migraines are due to bad eyesight. One can hope. :-)

— 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.

Also, Pash OTM there. They make you look all sexy librarian, like you know what’s what.

When I started on Contacts, people looked at me strangely, until one person said “Umm, have you shaved your moustache off?”

(I never had one)

You know, that’s exactly what I thought Nathalie had done before I read the title of the thread!

(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’ve got lovely new dior specs, got them for £85 as i got loads of discounts for being in my optician’s contact lens scheme, much cheaper than the brand free titanium ones i got last time around. The lenses are kind of rectangular with no rim along the bottom and a nice red bit across the top. Still like to wear my contacts if i’m going out though.

Nathalie, those glasses look great!

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.

i need to get a pair soon, i am finally coming to admit. londoners plz inform me of kewl places to purchase some frames! or anything else i should be aware of. i know nothing at all of this world.

Oh Stan. You make my colleague turn around and wonder why I am laughing at the comp screen for. No longer can I say: Ah shit, I misread that.

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

I am sort of borderline—I do need them for driving and distance work, but not reading or close work. I do sometimes get out of bed and forget to put them on for a while, but usually I wear them all the time except for sport.

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 need new glasses mine are wonky. but i had to put it off due to a couple of months of high vet bills.

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!

Oh yeah, Alice has just started with Glasses. She has “Little Miss Naughty” branded ones.(subtle, on the arms)

legs

I love contacts but they irritate my eyes so I can only wear them for about four hours :(

Okay, the scary thing for me is that I fear I may be moving toward the need for bifocals, not just glasses. I’m only 34!

legs?

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 13, and now mine are very strong (it’s actually kind of satisfying that anyone who does the ‘let me try them on, then, if they’re so strong’ thing, is always ‘impressed’ at how blind I am).

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.)

I think that’s what goes along with my insistence that I don’t trust people who don’t wear glasses. It’s that daily reminder of your own imperfections, your own limitations.

subtle, on the legs

I would like these miss naughty glasses. where does one get them?

I hesitate to say it...

specsavers.

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.

Ah, glasses. Fun things, those.

indeed.

my glasses with me in them.

Beth, that’s terrifying.

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.

haha, I love scanned beth.

Laurel, maybe you should just sleep in your glasses.

My dad used to sleep in his glasses “so he could see in his dreams!”

I had the same very mild prescription from 1989 until this past Feb., when I finally had to get stronger glasses. Dude said “Hm, you’re close to needing bifocals, but I don’t think you’re quite there yet.” Boy, was he wrong. I have to take my glasses off to read now, irritating as hell. If someone shows me something in a book or magazine they want me to see, I have to take it from them so I can hold it at the right distance, OR grab their hand and move it to the right distance, AND/OR take my glasses off, depending.

Time for new specs and maybe a new eye doctor.

I don’t think I *could* sleep in my glasses really—it would be too awkward when laid on my side.

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

Beth, maybe I should! Will require foam pillow with cut-outs, for sleeping on the side. Hah, XP.

You could get a special strap-on pillow with flexible breathing snorkle. It would surround your head and not slip. Or you could sleep in a zero-gravity chamber.

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.

ZERO G = MY SCI-FI FUTURE

Glasses are great!

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.

Yay indeed for glasses, although I’m seriously considering the jump to contacts in the near future. I’ve been wearing them since age 4! :-/

Seconded up on the “waking up and not being able to see where you put your glasses” thing. Especially if, like me, you lie in bed with your contacts in, then take them out last thing (I, like Madchen, value the non-faffiness of daily disposables), meaning that your glasses aren’t next to your bed. Cue lots of bumping into doors and peering at shelves/mantlepiece/bathroom cabinet etc while I try to remember where I put them that thought I’d remember.

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.

that scan is rad, beth.

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

wow, beth is howard stern.

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.

No idea what my scrip is, but I’m pretty blind + astigmatism in both eyes YAY.

i have painted acorns for eyes.

Three cheers for astigmatisms in both eyes! I think I’m -8 in one eye and -8.7 in the other. Blind as a bat.

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

Im getting a new pair of glasses today. I have this horrid tale of breaking my old pair.. I basically got shitfaced drunk on a 11am to 12pm bender and tripped and fell in the street on my way to my friends car. My glasses broke at the corner and more or less gave me a solid 1“ gash above my right eye. So yeah they uh broke and now I’m getting them replaced. Who woulda thought that glasses could be such a liability? (perhaps I am liability to myself)

I always put my specs in the same place when I go to bed/pass out! On the Marshall amp by my bed!

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

I really can only see about 2 inches in front of my face clearly, without glasses, therefore I have a routine spot where I dump my glasses at night (right in front of my alarm clock). Otherwise, it would be a disaster.

i see your -8.7 and raise you -9.5 in the left eye and -10.5 in the other!

I finally fucking fixed the glasses I broke in my bike wreck. Thx gorilla glue! I don’t have to squint like the Human Mole now!

OMG you are all blind! I’m -3.5 in both eyes and find functioning without aid next to impossible.

I broke the temple off my glasses by sitting on them. I fixed them with a big wad of duct tape. Took me weeks to get them fixed right—a two-minute procedure.

Oh man, I love I started this thread if only for scanned Beth! I HEART YOU SCANNED BETH. :-)

Or should that be 8-)

IS NOTHING SAFE FROM TEH BETH SCANNING???!!

Thank you guys! I scan everything. It’s how I avoid work.

I occasionally miss wearing eyeglasses, particularly after I spot a pretty pair of frames or when I gaze upon my old pair of glasses. There’s this beautiful feeling to the ritual of putting on eyeglasses in the morning. It’s like a secondary way of welcoming in the new day. Granted, I’d been wearing glasses for almost twenty years when I got LASIK and at the time I was, like, I’m tired of this, and it is nice having good eyesight without having to put on anything. BUT my vision’s not as good as it was when I had on my glasses (better than 20/20 with those bad boys) and SO.

I have NEVER dated a woman with good eyesight. Fact.

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

be difficult shopping for them though! You always need someone else (and to be wearing contact lenses. This is vital!

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.

It is kind of scary to think how blind we all are. I can’t see a damn thing without my specs on—how the eff did people cope beforehand?

It was always foggy in the past and they only had candle light, so it didn’t really matter.

Accentmonkey: Opt1ca On Royal Hibernian? They’re who I use. Mad pricy though!!

Same group. Donal McNally on Stephen’s Green. Nice, family run business, always impeccable service. I really like them. Plus, years ago when Mister Monkey and I had just started going out, we went in there in the rain to pick up glasses he had bought, and they took my glasses (which I had not bought there) and cleaned them and put an anti-fog spray on them for me while the transaction took place. Which was nice of them.

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.

Nathalie, those glasses are perfect for you!

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).

wow, beth is howard stern

My husband says Joey Ramone.

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

you don’t have to have bifocals for that though patita. i am both long and short sighted and my lenses are ‘graduated’, not bifocals. they’re a bit pricy and it takes a bit of getting used to, but worth it i think.

i like your glasses nathatlie. i wish i could make the move from contacts to glasses (esp. b/c i wear my contacts every day all day and haven’t changed them in like 8 months—i THINK they are weekly wears?? yikes)—BUT i get obsessed with seeing the rims and lack of peripheral vision. even after wearing them for a long time i can’t get used to it. also they make me SEE myself better and then i feel ugly. esp. in the store while picking them out—those bright lights and so many mirrors. i do think they look nice on others. and seem fun to wear—theoretically. i’m stuck with contacts then. until neuroses pass

NOONE (IRL) has commented on them! Except our employee but I had mentioned that I would be getting some.

The migraines sadly haven’t stopped. :-(

My dad used to sleep in his glasses “so he could see in his dreams!”

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.

i hate my glasses, frankly, though I’ve worn them for years.. next year time to try again to get contacts.