Journal

Your PD is the distance between your pupils in millimeters, and you need it to order glasses online. Here is how to measure it accurately at home w...

Wooden sunglasses are water-resistant, not waterproof, and durable enough for daily wear. Here is how they handle rain, surf, and drops, and how to...

Acetate is a plastic, but not the cheap kind. Here is how cellulose acetate differs from basic injection-molded plastic, and which frame is worth p...

Rimless glasses are more delicate than full-rim frames, but not fragile in normal use. Here is where they actually break and how to make a pair last.

Panto is the rounded, subtly flat-topped frame shape that sits between a full round and an oval. Here is where the name comes from and who it flatt...

Aviators use a rounded teardrop lens; navigators square off the same double-bridge silhouette. Here is how to tell them apart and which suits your ...

One rule runs the whole chart: contrast flatters. The complete face shape to frame shape matrix — what to wear and what to skip for round, square, ...

Fold them into a hard case whenever they are off your face, keep them out of hot cars, and never rest them lens-down or on top of your head. The sm...

Red dents and dark patches come from pressure — too much frame weight on too little pad area. The real causes (heavy lenses, hard or narrow pads, p...

Acetate softens with heat and holds a new shape as it cools. Warm the arm with a hair dryer, bend gently, hold until cool. How to fix pinching, gap...

Slipping glasses are a fit problem, not a personal one. Three home fixes — bend the temple tips, adjust the nose pads, narrow acetate arms with hea...

The honest answer is no — a scratch is physical damage that nothing fills back in, and toothpaste or baking soda hacks usually make coated lenses w...