That was really fast shipping! They just went out on Monday from 39dollarglasses.com and are already here!

Ok, so here’s the Ta Da picture:

(my hair is kind of messy today…but don’t let that detract from the glasses…)

Thoughts:
They’re a little bit more peach than I expected, and about as wide as I should go, with my face shape. My current lenses are 49 mm wide, and these are 51mm. The thing that I try to avoid is having any space between the edge of the lens and the side of my head…or I get that “small eyes” thing.

That’s when you look at someone head on, and you can tell how strong their glasses are because their whole face looks normal size, but if you look at their eyes, that strip of face looks reeeeeally narrow inside the lense of the glasses. To avoid that, I try to find lenses/frames that are only as wide as that strip of face.

So, I’m happy with the frame width. You can see a little “air” on the side in the face, but the quality of the lenses is high enough that the refraction (small head look) isn’t too bad.

The lenses are definitely thin and light (I sprung for the 1.67 carbon high-end lenses) they have an anti-reflective coating, and the prescription seems accurate. I’m writing this post with them on, and so far, so good! I seem to have measured my pupillary distance correctly.

The only thing that I miss about not getting them in the shop is the way that they use that hot air machine to soften the plastic, and then shape them to the face a little bit. I’d like it if the temples were back a little more towards my face. (I’m going to try to use my hair dryer to do it!)

All in all, I’m happy with them. Let’s see how they do over a few hours’ wear, though!