How to pick the right frames for your face?

DETERMINE YOUR FACE SHAPE

So learning how to pick glasses frame can be pretty challenging if you're not sure what to look for, and without professional help, you could end up picking glasses that look awkward, feel uncomfortable, or could even mess up your vision.

But one of the easiest ways to start is to find glasses for your face shape.

How to choose glasses for your face shape?

Face shapes are usually described as having a round or circle-shaped face, square, rectangle, an oval, or having a triangle heart-shaped face.                        

Do not spend too much time worrying about what type of face you have or trying to figure this all out. It's best to just look in the mirror and get an overall feeling for what type of facial features you may have.

 

    

Is your face more of a rounded face? 

Do you have more of a square rectangular face? 

Or perhaps you have more of an angular face with a really defined jawline?  

The general rule for how to select glasses for your face shape is to always pick the glasses that have the opposite features to your face shape. 

So if you're somebody who is looking for glasses for a round face, you want to select glasses that have more of a boxy appearance and that have angles such as a square pair of glasses or a rectangular pair of glasses. That way the glasses won't drive so much attention to how round your face is and will give you a more balanced overall look. 

Similar to someone who has more angles in their face shape, so if you are someone who has more of a square, a rectangle, or even triangle-shaped face.

In case finding frames with more of a circle or oval shape is probably going to work the best. 

 And in the case for most of us who have oval-shaped faces, you are in luck because pretty much any glasses shape will work with an oval-shaped face. 

So feel free to mix and match and try to find something that looks cool for you. 

What really matters is the fit. If you want to find glasses that are the right size and width for your face. The issue most people make is that they are wearing glasses that are either too big or too small. 

You want to find glasses where the frame and the temples line perfectly up with the sides of your face. If you have to end up turning your glasses splaying way outward like this, then your glasses are too small. Or if you end up having to turn your temple arms way inward toward your face, then the glasses are too big.

 

Two ways you can get this measurement right is to one, either try on many frames at an optical so that you can figure out just what fits right for you. The other way is to look at the numbers on the sides of the glasses frames.

  

STANDARD NUMBERS you're going to find is first the eye size, then the distance between the lenses known as DBL and then you will have the temple length.  

The temple is the name for the arm that reaches all the way back to rest on your ear. In this case, if you double the eye size and then add the DBL together then you will get the approximate distance across the entire frame. And you can match that with your own measurement with a ruler from one temple to the other. It's going to give you a better fit and the frames are going to be a lot more comfortable to wear. Now my second pro tip is you are going to want to match your glasses to your nose shape and your bridge size. 

That means if you are somebody with very narrow set eyes, you are going to want to wear glasses that have a smaller DBL. Usually if you have more narrow set eyes you want numbers that are between 14-18mm and if you are somebody with more wider set eyes you are going to look for numbers that are usually 19-22 on average. but its also important to consider the shape of your nose, if you have a really wide set nose that is very large, then perhaps having glasses that have more angles that are closer together wouldn't be right for you. Otherwise, it may just end up poking you in the nose. Another pro tip is that if you're someone with a really prominent nose bridge often times plastic frames work excellent for those people as their nose just works great at holding those frames and they don't necessarily slide down super easily. 

Where if you are somebody with more of a flatter nose profile, that's very flat to the face, then finding glasses that have dedicated nose pads usually work better. That way you can make really fine-tune adjustments and the glasses won't just slide easily down your face. Otherwise your glasses may end up resting on your cheeks and then your pushing them back up and their hitting your eyelashes. 

No matter where you buy your glasses whether it be from an optical shop, a glasses store, anything like that or even if you are buying them online, make sure that you take your glasses in and have them professionally adjusted. 

That way you're going to be sure you have the most comfort with your eye glasses and give you the best vision and keep in mind that over time your glasses may become out of adjustment so it's good to take them back in to have them adjusted every once in a while.  

If you learned something new, leave your experiences in the comments section below if you have not done so already.