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With greater convenience and accessibility, online shopping has been growing in popularity and purchasing eyewear online is no exception. While shopping for eyeglasses online may seem like a simple process, concerns revolving around finding the right size, style and prescription may arise. As such, we have put together a guide to help you ease those doubts. Here are the 5 tips for you to find the right fit when buying eyeglasses online:

1. Shop based on your face shape

The first tip is to determine your face shape. Take a peek in the mirror at your facial features, do you have a round or oval face shape? In fact, almost nobody’s face falls under a perfect heart, square, or other narrowly defined category. Most faces are combined with a few different shapes. After you have identified your face shape, you can look for a frame shape that balances your features naturally. Regardless of glasses type such as blue light glasses, there will always be a complementary frame that suits your face. Particular frames can slim or accentuate certain features.

Below is a reference to pick eye frames based on different face shapes:

• For square face shapesMirrored cat-eye frames and thin, round frames 
• For round face shapesClear frames and retro cat-eye frames 
• For oval face shapesThin, rounded frames and medium-sized frames 
• For heart face shapesRectangular, tortoiseshell frames and navy cat-eye frames

With that being said, you can always choose to forgo the guide and select a frame you know you would love and express your personality.

2. Find the right measurement

Start with the three key aspects below when it comes to measuring the frame size of regular eyeglasses and prescription sunglasses.

• Lens width: the width of the frame around the lens
• Bridge width: the width of the frame across your nose
• Temple length: the length of the arm of the glasses from the front of the frame to behind your ear

Example: If your glasses measurement reads as ‘52-16-135’, these are what the numbers represent:

The first number, 52, is for lens width of 52mm;

The second number, 16, is for bridge width of 16mm;

The third number, 135, is for temple length of 135mm.

To get an accurate glass frame size, you can either measure your existing glasses, or use a soft measuring tape. Regular or prescription sunglasses may be larger than eyeglasses. Therefore, it is possible that the sizes of sunglasses and eyeglasses are different from each other, despite the use of the same measurements.

3. Use a virtual try-on tool

As technology advances, the experience of trying on a product virtually has been elevated. Now, virtual try-on tools enable you to see exactly how you would look with a particular pair of eyewear on.

Step 1: Enable a camera at a demo store

When trying on eyeglasses online, shoppers are required to have their device camera ready. The camera should automatically detect and display the user’s pupillary distance within 2 seconds.

Step 2: Experiment with different glasses

After the pupillary distance has been detected, you may try on hundreds of glasses online as you wish. There are different virtual glasses available for try-on. In addition, you may also adjust the tints, frames, and lenses during this process.

4. Choose the right frame colours

Skin colour is also another important aspect when choosing new eyeglass frames, especially when you are doing so online. Look for those that complement your skin tone. Before deciding the frame colours, understand which of the following three categories your skin tone falls under:

• Warm: bronze, yellow, peach, or golden undertones
• Neutral: a mix of pink and gold undertones
• Cool: blue or pink undertones

Once you have identified your skin tone category, pair them with frame colours as listed below:

• Warm skin tones match well with frames in warmer colour, such as beige, warm reds, light tortoise shells, honey, browns, gold, olive greens
• Wintery colours work best with cool skin tones. Consider colours such as silvers or greys, purples, blues, dark tortoise shells, pinks or mauves, etc
• Just go for any colour frames if your skin tone is more neutral.

5. Consider your lifestyle

Last but not least, think about your lifestyle and personality when choosing your desired eyeglasses. This will definitely simplify the process. Your eyeglasses should not only meet your vision needs but also show off your lifestyle. The perfect glasses can be chosen based on jobs, special needs, personal priorities and other factors. For instance, if you are a fashionista, you may want to showcase your trendiness through vivid colour frames and unique frame shapes.

At Better Vision, we always work on providing the most suitable eyewear for our clients. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need a new pair of prescription glasses or coloured contact lenses.