How to Choose Your Frames:

When selecting frames, it is important to choose a design that suits your prescription.  Your eyecare professional can assist you in this important category.  In addition, your frames should be cosmetically appealing.  When considering cosmetics, you will want to incorporate your individual coloring, face shape, and personal style.  What is the best frame for you cosmetically?  It is all about color and facial features.  In regard to face shape, it is all about balance.  An Oval face is a balanced shape, and may wear any frame design, so long as the prescription allows.  Other face shapes are categorized as follows:

• Oblong “Long face”
• Round “wide”
• Square “wide”
• Inverted Triangle (base up)
• Erect Triangle (Base down)
• Diamond
• Heart

All of the face shapes can be grouped into three main categories:  Oval, Wide and Narrow.  The frame design can dramatically alter the appearance of a face shape to give the illusion of an oval.  This fashion technique/optical makeover is accomplished with the placement of the endpiece, where the sides meet the front of the frame.  If you wish to give a narrow face a wider look, then the end-pieces should be midline to the frame front.  If your goal is to make a wide face look slimmer, than a high endpiece attachment is needed.