Do you know the hassle of finding glasses that match your face and personality? If you can survive a summer with sunglasses that slip all the time in the name of style, it’s a lot more restrictive to have glasses that slip every day. This tough choice can be even more challenging if you’re a person of color and/or Asian descent.
Indeed, depending on the shape of your nose, you can be excluded from most of the existing frame shapes on the market.
The hassle of finding eyeglasses for blacks and Asians
Little known, it’s a frequent problem with the way eyewear is made, as he explains Gregory, independent optician in the 20th arrondissement of Paris:
“It’s a phenomenon that I see very regularly in stores with blacks and Asians, who have a much less pronounced nose bridge of most Caucasians.
When they try on frames they don’t have small pads should rest on the nose and called pads, the glasses then rest too much on the cheeks. Without being able to rest even on the nose, the frames will tend to slip and/or leave marks on the cheeks.
Interested people don’t necessarily realize it immediately when they try them, but over time it proves quite restrictive.even painful. »
Frame with or without pad, this is the main question for glasses
To understand this story of glasses with or without nosepads (nosepads), one must look at the production. In simple terms, plastic frames rarely have nosepadsbecause Western manufacturers immediately shape the material to match the shape of most Caucasian noses.
On the other hand, metal frames almost always have nose padswhose importance and ambivalence Grégory, from Muller Optique, explains to us:
“The possible difference between production and sales prices is just a few euros. Actually, a frame with or without pads, is above all a matter of design and aesthetic preference. Because the pads show a little, so some people will prefer to have them, some not, without affecting the fit of the frame to the nose. But when you don’t have a marked nose bridge, it is better to choose a frame with bearings.
The latter have the great advantage of being able to be regulatedpersonally oriented by your optician, to be able to lean better on the nose, therefore hold well without slipping, neither wounds nor marks on the cheeks. The downside is that it can create a small mark on the bridge of the nose. What we may tend to fear, especially if we wear makeup. »
But maybe it’s better to have glasses that last well and for a long time at the cost of a few make-up touches, rather than a frame that keeps slipping. “I think the answer to the question is quick…”
How to choose the right frame for comfortable glasses that hold up
Should Blacks and Asians Avoid All Plastic Frames? Not necessarily, adds independent optician Gregory Muller:
” Some plastic frames may have earpads that your optician can adjust. So it’s worth asking if a model really caught your eye. It is also important to be well advised by an optician or beautician (as is the case for most of the profession). He or she will be able to guide you choose something comfortable for the long term. Especially since other specific problems must also be taken into account, for example in the case of thick lenses to ensure strong correction. »
To find your way around the shop, you can then hunt down frames equipped with pads pads, which is the case with the vast majority of metal models. As for the plastic ones, it can be especially smarttry famous eyewear brands in Asialike Gucci or Saint Laurent (especially if you have good health insurance), for example.
“Asian fit” frames, designed for people with a weak nose bridge
The big European luxury houses are used to developing eyewear collections with many frame models designed to be as comfortable as possible with the majority of Asians (who represent a huge part of their clientele). muzzle not very marked.
These models are explicitly called “Asian fit” (Asian cut) is often thought to continue to become even in the case of thick lenses that provide strong correction, because Asia has a lot of high myopia for multiple reasons.
Leading products, with high visibility, insensitive to meteorological problems and for which trend cycles pass slowly and hardly vary from one country to another, eyewear constitutes a large international market for brands. For individuals, it can quickly prove to be an investment hell, so choose a model that pleases as much as it holds up well to amortize it in comfort and style!
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Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
