How to Choose the Right Sunglasses For Your Face Shape

If you live in a sunny climate, you need glasses year round. If you travel, you need good sunglasses for the sunnier spots you visit. If you purchase prescription sunglasses, an optician experienced in choosing the best frame for your face shape helps you choose the sunglasses that look best. However, if you are buying sunglasses without prescription lenses from a department store, you're on your own. With a few tips and tricks, however, you can find glasses that work well for you.

Instructions

1. Know your face shape. This determines which sunglass shape works best with your facial structure. Typical shapes include oval, square, round and heart-shaped.

2. Soften the squareness of your jaw if your face shape is square. Select a more rounded lens.

3. Make a rounded face appear thinner with sunglasses that use angular lines.

4. Select an oval or round if your face is heart-shaped..

5. Choose any shape you like, as not just one works well, with an oval-shaped face.

Tips & Warnings

• Choose polarized lenses as they cut down on glare. Grey polarized lenses are best for keeping colors natural looking. Brown polarized lenses are best for accentuating the contrast between colors, and are a better choice for driving.

References

• "O, The Oprah Magazine"; Find the Best Sunglasses for Your Face Shape; Brooke Kosofsky Glassberg; June 2010