I’ve been a glasses wearer since I was at school. I never liked it much – glasses helped me to see, but other than that they were an inconvenience: they got wet when it rained and steamed up went from outside to in and because I didn’t have prescription sunnies for years, I had the annoying thing where where I either had to squint in the sun or be the dick wearing sunglasses in the house or carry around spare specs. I was never a fan.
I got contact lenses a few years ago and MY LIFE CHANGED. I could wear sunglasses. I could wear ski goggles (I COULD WEAR SKI GOGGLES!)I could get dressed to go out somewhere and feel good about myself in a way I never really did in my glasses. I never ever felt sexy in my glasses. Ever.
I got contact lenses a few years ago and MY LIFE CHANGED. I could wear sunglasses. I could wear ski goggles (I COULD WEAR SKI GOGGLES!)I could get dressed to go out somewhere and feel good about myself in a way I never really did in my glasses. I never ever felt sexy in my glasses. Ever.
& then last year I had The Bad Eye Time. Ulcerative acanthamoeba keratitis aka the worst thing I have ever suffered in my life. I have never known pain and misery like it. &
you know, when you nearly lose your eye and you learn it’s probably partly to
do with contact lenses and you feel like you’ve been given a second chance you
feel kind of wary about putting contact lenses in your eyes again.
I changed the lenses I use after that. I use premium lenses now which cost
me 3x what my old ones used to cost but it’s a price I’m willing to pay, and to
be honest I rarely wear them these days -on summer holidays because of the
whole faff of prescription sunnies and on ski holidays because of the whole
faff of ski goggles and glasses but other than that, I stick to my glasses.
But it still bothered me.
Because I don’t much like
myself in glasses.
I don’t much like glasses.
OR rather I didn’t. Until I realised I could buy pretty
funky frames for not too much money; that I could wear my glasses as an accessory
not a necessity; that I didn’t have to have just two pairs, I could have ALL THE
PAIRS and I could make them a part of who I am, like I do with my shoes. I ordered 2 pairs in quick succession; I ordered another couple of pairs last weekend (it
was payday and I don’t need to eat, do I?) and there are lots of pairs that I am
lusting after because glasses are my new obsession and I want to share those
with you now because THEY’RE SO PRETTY. Also glasses and books? MADE FOR THE ‘GRAM,
BABY.
Also, you know a surprising thing? My fave pair are a pair I
bought on the off chance because they were on offer. Tortoiseshell ones that I didn’t
actually think would suit me. My main squeeze aka my best guy calls them my
Rashids which is a nod to Deirdre off of Corrie and why do I find him so endearing, but you know what, I love them.
So here are the ones I have.
(^^The Rashids)
And the ones I want.
(^^I am so in love with those though, you don't even know)
How many pairs of glasses is too many pairs of glasses?
