Glasses that suit your face shape

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How do you figure out what style of glasses suit your face shape ? I fear I'm going to have to get reading glasses soon. I'd like them to enhance my face rather than detract but I can't get sunglasses that I like the look of when on so I'm dreading the opticians.

I've a long face, oval, high forehead, straight shoulder length hair, dark eye brows and look like a clown in round glasses. At least, that's what my 4 year old fashion advisor tells me.

This is exactly why I have had the same frames for 12 years! (I have had the lenses changed and the screws tightened etc but not changed frames!)

I only found a pair that suited me (heart shaped face, blonde, fair skin) by trying a huge amount on tbh.

Mine are half framed gold/brown squarish Miss Sixty ones. I'm praying they never need replaced, whenever I've had my eyes tested I've looked at the new frames, tried a few and then got my lenses replaced when I couldn't find ones I liked

I rely on somebody in Vision Express knowing what they're talking about and pulling out hundreds of frames to try. I love my current glasses, to the point where I hardly wear my contact lenses any more; my face looks more interesting in my glasses!

I have images of me trying on every single pair in spec savers and not being able to make a call....

Glasses are an absolute mine field. Everything was very small and oblong for several year and now the frames have gone big again.
The best frames for my face, were some cheap sunglasses and I asked the optician if they could put prescription lens in. Non. I still wonder if they were lying.

I did try on almost every pair in spec savers. The staff were helpful, but then just left me to look on my own. Don't rush. You'll find something that you like that also suits your face shape. Honestly, I was there for ages, they don't mind.

I recently learned glasses have SIZES
so you need to know what size to buy
Each frame has a size in tiny print inside the arm.
When I needed new glasses I couldn't find any I suited. I was told to seach for the same size I already had.
This may help
www.glassesdirect.co.uk/bestfit/

It was a revelation! I've gone on a spending glasses spree since.
I learnt from nice man in Vision Express due to concer the frames my DD chose were too small.

Go to a good independent optician (the posher the better!) and look at niche ranges, rather than the standard "designer" names which are all made by one company under licenses. Oliver Peoples, Face a Face, Lindberg, Funk, Bruno Chassignand, Alain Mikli, LA Eyeworks and a bunch of other ranges are far less boring than the selection you will find in the High Street. Ask the optician to select 10 or 15 pairs in different colours and sizes that he/she thinks might suit you to try. Because you are likely to spend £££ depending on your Rx, I personally think it is worth looking at the most fashion forward you can, so that when you get them they are definitely modern. They will date, inevitably, but it will take the Luxottica brands two or three years to catch up so you should get four or five years of wear, and that will improve your cost per day enormously. I now have to wear glasses full time, and I tried glasses on for six months before buying. Don't be rushed into a decision; it's not a choice to make there and then, and you don't have to buy from the shop who did the eye test. Oh and don't go to Spec Savers!