Getting the fit and feel of your frames just right is essential to having glasses you love to wear. So here are 5 adjustments to make your eyewear fits perfectly:
Watch our video below to get a step by step video tutorial on what to do...
Very few glasses are perfect off the shelf, if you achieve that then you are one of the lucky ones but for the most of us glasses just need a little bit of a tweak here and there and today we are going to be demonstrating some absolutely essential types of adjustments to help you achieve an amazing fit...
No.1 - Adjusting the Temple Tips...
We're going to start with the simplest and the most common kind of adjustment which is to do with the temple tips and the mastoid as it's known this region behind the back of our ear is one of the most sensitive parts of the body so this is a really crucial adjustment. What we want to see behind the ear ia a temple tip that curves gently around the back of the ear. You never want to see a 90 degree angle. You rarely see temple tips with no grip at all, unless it's a straight fitting temple and those do exist with brands like Oakley, Mclaren, Carrera etc. The majority of glasses do need to be fitted around the ear to keep them in place.
So what you need to do is find the point at which the top of your ear meets the frame . Once you've found that point, you need to hold it between your finger and thumb, with your thumb on the inside of the frame and gently bend the temple tip around your thumb to create a gentle curve. You never want to yank it and try to get it right in the first go - be gentle and take your time.
Once you've got that nice gentle curve, you should feel an immediate sense of security around the back of the ear, whereby looking down the frame doesn't move, but equally there's no pressure.
If you do find that your glasses are causing irritation behind the back of your ears, it's very simple, you'd simply bend the temple tip in the opposite way by placing your thumb on the opposite side of the curve. Sometimes these adjustments take a few attempts to get the perfect fit, even for a trained optician.
No.2 - Adjusting the Nose Bridge...
The next most important adjustment is the nose bridge and with acetate frames like this, there's very little adjustment possible. That's why its really important with acetate frames that you get the bridge fitting right before buying them.
Glasses with nose pads, the good news is that they are completely adjustable. Adjusting the nosepads inwards will have the effect of raising the glasses on your face. Conversely, adjusting the pads outwards will lower the frames on your face.
No.3 - Adjusting Tilted Glasses...
Most of the population have one ear that's a little higher or lower than the other, and if that's the case when you put glasses on off the shelf, they're going to sit on a slight slant and the best way to correct that is by lowering the arm on the side that the glasses are leaning towards. You caan do this with your fingers, but it is not ideal to do so. Opticians use steel nose plyers which are used specifically for those adjustments.
When you have an acetate frame, this method would not be as effective as you risk weakening the hinges. There are different ways you can achieve this adjustment...
Heat the frame with a frame heater/ hair dryer targeting the point before the arms start to bend and gently bend it downwards. This will lift the frame and how it sits on your face.
No.4 - Adjusting Lenses that are too close to the eye...
When one lens is closer to the eye than the other, the side that the lens is too close to the eye needs to be adjusted, where the temple on that side needs to be brought towards the face.
In order to do this, you need to heat up the section of the arm before where the temple curves around the ear and you need to gently bend that inwards. This will push that side of the frame away from the eye.
No.5 - Adjusting the Frame angle...
All optical lenses have an ideal angle at which they need to sit relative to the eye. So there are two main angles they need to be adjusted for...
The Bow: This is the curvature of the frame relative to the face...
To adjust the bow, you would simply use your hands to bend the frame inwards, like so...
On an acetate frame, you would simple heat the bridge area and do the same as the above.
2. The Panoscopic Tilt: That is the angle of the lenses and how close they are to the face...
If you want to increase the panoscopic tilt, what you want to do is bring both temples down by the same amount. That is going to introduce more panoscopic tilt, which will angle the lenses closer to your face. To reduce the panoscopic tilt, you would simple do the opposite and bring the temples upwards instead.
We hope we've helped you achieve the perfect fit for your glasses!
If you have any further queries, contact us. We'd be happy to help.
