The fantastic choice of styles and colours now available means you can choose different frames to co-ordinate with clothes and other accessories and you can use frame shapes to highlight your best features. Long noses look shorter in frames with a low-set bridge. In general, the top of frames shouldn t go above the line of your eyebrows or the effect will be to make you look permanently surprised. The shape of your frame should compliment your face shape, not duplicate it. The best frames will suit your looks whether you dress up or down.
Comfort is just as important as appearance.
When you buy new glasses your optical practitioner will make sure that the width of the frames, the length of the sides and the fit round the ears are right for you, but make sure you choose a style where the lower edge of your frames clears your cheeks and can t rub or irritate your skin. Your eyecare practitioner will gladly spend time with you when selecting your frames, helping and advising over the ones that look best and suit your lifestyle. Some practices even have computer screens that enable you to see how you look in certain frames. Tortoise shell frames can look extremely good on some fair people as long as they are not too dark, but avoid clear crystal frames as they are too colourless for most pale complexions. Blue or green tinged frames also tend to drain colour from cool cheeks.