Tips to ensure your Eye/Sunglasses look fantastic!

Expert style tips
By Adam Hassan and M.S. | Mango Pages | 23 Sept 13

Your eyeglasses and sunglasses reflect your personality, so take a few minutes to find out what suits you, and ensure your glasses look fantastic!

Choosing the right pair of glasses isn't only about comfort and usability - it's also important that your glasses can enhance your style and make you look and feel fabulous!

The glass-frame that complements your face shape is one of the most important considerations when selecting your glasses. It should suit your hair color and complexion as well.

 "Frame Shape & Color

vs.

Face Shape (Oval – Rectangle – Triangle – Square – Diamond – Round – Pyramid), and Natural Hue (Eyes, Skin & Hair Colors)"

When you go to buy a glass; you should ask yourself three questions:

(1) What face shape you have?

(2) Which glass-frame styles will enhance your look?

(3) Which frame color that suits you?

Questions (1) and (2) are related, as below; you will see a list of seven basic face shapes, and which frame styles that should work with those shapes.

Oval

An oval face with a rounded chin and forehead is the 'ideal', as this shape has balanced proportions. An oval face appears longer than it is wide, with the forehead being slightly wider than the jaw. To maintain this natural balance, frames that are as wide as or slightly wider than the broadest part of the face are the best choice. Alternatively, 'walnut' shaped frames that are not too deep or narrow also suit an oval face. However, ovals are lucky in that almost any frame design will suit them.

Round

Circular face is known with full cheeks and rounded chin. The round face shape needs a frame design to make it appear narrower and longer. The width and the length of a round face are proportionally similar, with no angles for definition. The aim is to lengthen and give more definition to the face shape, as well as widening the eyes. Angular, narrow frame styles will help to lengthen the face. A clear bridge will help draw emphasis to the eyes and frames that are more rectangular and wider will balance the shape of the face, providing more definition.

Square

A square face has a very strong jaw line and a broad forehead. Unlike the rectangle, the width and length are the proportionally equal. The aim is to soften the angles of a square chin and ultimately make the face look longer. Narrow frames with more width than depth can help to achieve this, particularly oval and round frames. Frames of this style can soften the jaw line, place emphasis on the eyes and lengthen the nose. Square framed styles will achieve the opposite effect, and look out of balance with the rest of the face.

Rectangle

If your face shape is more rectangular, you may have a longer face with a square chin, quite a strong jaw line and a longer nose length. Large, square frames suit rectangular faces best, helping to make the face appear shorter and more balanced. Decorative or contrasting temples will add width to the face. A frame with a low bridge will help to shorten the appearance of a longer nose, balancing the face and giving the overall appearance of a shorter, more defined line. A rectangular face can look particularly good in modern styles that help to shorten the length of the face.

Triangle

A typical triangular face has a broad forehead - the width of the face tapering down to a narrow, rounded chin. The best frames minimize the width of the face's top and bring the overall look back into balance. Frames that are wider at the bottom will help to achieve this, placing greater emphasis on the lower half of the face. Very light colors, light materials and rimless frame styles can also help, so consider small square or rounded frames to achieve more balanced proportions for the whole face.

Diamond

The diamond shaped face is the rarest of face shapes, and is defined by a narrow forehead, wide cheekbones and a narrow chin. Diamond shaped faces are usually narrower at the eye line and jaw line, with high and often dramatic cheekbones. The aim here is to draw attention to the eyes, giving this area more width and balancing the face. Frames that have detailing or distinctive brow lines will help to achieve this effect. Alternatively, try rimless frames or oval shapes, which will also draw more attention to the eyes. Diamond shape faces look particularly good in dramatic, outsize frames.

Pyramid

The pyramid is an unusual face shape, although not as rare as the diamond shape. The pyramid has a narrow forehead that widens at the cheek and chin. The choice of frames for a pyramid shaped face should draw attention to the eyes - widening and adding emphasis to the narrow upper third of the face, which will bring the entire face back into balance. Frames that have detailing on the top half or are more striking in their use of color will achieve this. Cat's eye shape frames will also have the same effect. The overall effect can bring the top third of the face into proportion with the lower third.

As for Question (3); same as you choose complementary color clothes to suit your natural hue (Eyes, Skin & Hair Colors), you should apply these principles when selecting your glasses. Whereas, understanding whether your coloring is warm or cool is the key for choosing the glass frames that complement your natural hue.

For example, if you have cool coloring, frames that suit you include ones in magenta, black, blue-gray, pink, amber, charcoal and silver. On the other hand, camel, warm blue, off-white, peach, blonde tortoise, coral, red, copper and gold are all better-suited for people with warm coloring.

Remember, our upper eStore recommends to you some perfect and flattering  frame styles for Eye/Sunglasses. 

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