What does a pair of £5 reading glasses say about you? Many great things have been said about the eyes. The great Roman philosopher Cicero described the face as a picture of the mind and suggested, “the eyes are its interpreter.” In the Bible, Matthew said they are “the lamps of the body”, and in an instant can reveal your health according to how bright they shine. And maybe most famously and profoundly Shakespeare proclaimed they are “the windows to your soul”….
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How to look good in your glasses?
How to look good in your glasses? You’ve tried to embrace them as the fashion accessory — you really have. But unlike Jennifer Aniston or Anne Hathaway, you weren’t blessed with perfectly symmetrical features. Your face doesn’t fit nicely into one of the common categories — “Square, diamond, heart, or base down triangle? More like oblong-triangle with a dash of square”— and the only style that does looks good on you went out of fashion twenty years ago. But they’re easier and safer…
Fed up of cheap reading glasses
Fed up of cheap reading glasses They were never meant to be part of your life. It was just another day on a routine shopping trip, after a morning of straining to read this month’s bank statement and the small print on product labels, when you finally decided enough is enough and paused as you passed the revolving rack of shame. You casually rotated the stand, trying to give off an air of passive interest, and then, when nobody was looking…
Wake Up Sharp — Not Blurry with Laser Eye Surgery
Wake Up Sharp – Not Blurry – with Laser Eye Surgery All of us, at one time or another, have woken up with a foggy head and hazy vision – sometimes accompanied by a whisper of a headache. Having fumbled around on the bedside table for your glass of water or stumbled, arms stretched out in front of you, to the bathroom, you might not even be able to see yourself properly in the mirror. But while for some, this…
You don’t need to suffer with reading glasses or bi-focals
You don’t need to suffer with reading glasses, vari-focals or bi-focals Squinting when trying to read fine print, holding the newspaper farther and farther away from your face, avoiding labels on products when shopping — sound familiar? To anyone who’s suffering from presbyopia, the term for loss of near focusing ability that typically occurs in your mid-forties, these symptoms may sound all too familiar. Whether after a discussion with your optician, or self-diagnosis and treatment, the first step many people…
How good a solution to reading glasses is Laser Eye Surgery?
How good a solution to reading glasses is Laser Eye Surgery? Do you sometimes feel like you’d do anything to free yourself from those irritating rims that always seem to disappear or break? Even the inconvenience of having to find them every time you need to read something is enough to make you cry out in frustration and throw them as far as the eye can see. But, usually just as quickly as the feeling arises, it settles, and you continue…
How does blended Laser Eye Surgery work?
How does blended Laser Eye Surgery work? If you’re anything like me, you won’t dive into a new therapy, course of medication, or treatment until you know everything there is to know about it. It’s an admirable trait — albeit one that can become annoying when encountering conflicting information and reviews online, to later realise you’ve spent six hours non-stop staring at a screen. Fortunately, your research session today won’t end with you as a whirring, hazy lump, lying eyes wide…
What does freedom from glasses really mean?
What does freedom from glasses really mean? Humans are terrible when it comes to making positive changes in their lives. But contrary to what most people think, there’s a lot more to it than simply pizza and Netflix being easier than embracing the cold and hitting the gym; it comes down to an inbuilt physiological response in the making for thousands of years. If we look back to see how our ancestors lived, it’s much easier to understand. Throughout human history, most…
Laser eye treatments for over 50s
Laser eye treatments for over 50’s Over the last two decades, Laser Eye Surgery has come on leaps and bounds to reach a point where effective vision correction treatments are nearly available for people of all ages and prescriptions. In the past, this standard of care was only available to specific cohorts of patients, with those over a certain age or with less common conditions ineligible for treatment. This was understandable as the technology was still in its infancy, but today,…
Presbyopia: Symptoms and treatments of reading glasses
Presbyopia: Symptoms and treatments of reading glasses In your early to mid-40s, it’s likely you’ll begin to experience a deterioration in the quality of your vision. At first, you may notice slight difficulty focusing on objects at close distances. This is expected — in fact, most of the population experience it between the ages of 40-60. You’ll probably think nothing of it, dismissing it as “just another sign of getting older.” But the annoyance persists, causing you to hold materials further and…
