So, here are the three considerations that help you make the best and right choice while picking a pair of eyeglasses:
1. The Frame and your Face Shape
If you want the frame to look good on your face, you must focus on that the style you are picking that whether it is complementing your natural face shape or not. To be precise, here are the three hacks:
• Try to match the frame with your best feature like a blue frame for your blue eyes.
• The frame shape of your power glasses should not match the silhouette of your face; rather it should be in a contrast. Like, for a round face, choose square or rectangle frames as rounded ones will make the face appear rounder.
• The frame size should be in sync with the size of your face.
2. Color Analysis
Here, color analysis means determining the color palette for selecting the color of your eyeglasses, taking into consideration three areas- skin color, eye color and hair color.
• Considering skin complexion is all about examining whether you have a cool complexion (means having blue or pink undertones) or warm complexion (peach and cream or yellow cast).
• Similarly, notice whether the color of your eyes is cool or warm. Cool colored eyes will have a blue shade towards almost violet while pale blue-gray depicts a warm shade.
• Warm hair colors include brownish black, brownish gold, and golden blonde while cool hair color includes platinum, blue and black, auburn, salt and pepper, strawberry blonde and ash brown.
Once you have gauged which category you fall in, you can choose the appropriate frame color for your prescription eyeglasses. Like for cool colors, go for black, plum, magenta, pink, dark tortoise, silver, rose-brown and jade colored frames. And for warm colors, opt for gold, peach, khaki, copper, coral, warm blue, blonde tortoise, orange, and camel.
3. No Color Matching with Apparels
When it comes to wearing the trendiest outfits, you consider the colors of the season. And there are times when you might want to match your frames with your outfit. However, that does not look flattering always, you can still go for the one that brings the best in you and enhances your look. Eyewear industry also introduces trendy colors every season. So, you can choose from them.
Here are some suggestions:
• When wearing a green jacket, wear a blue frame
• With a taupe dress, go for a pair of classic tortoise frames
• Match your black frame with a rust colored handbag
So, next time when you choose your normal prescription glasses, computer eyeglasses, reading glasses or even sunglasses ensure you are adhering to these three crucial parameters and you will never go wrong.