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Get into good-looking glasses

Whether you wear them full-time or . part-time, glasses are a key accessory.

The first thing people look at are your eyes. If you’re wearing glasses they are very much seen. The right choice of frames and lenses has as much impact on j’our look as your make-up and your hair.

I have met women who have a. fear of vearing glasses, opting for contact lenses instead. They feel glasses tend to give them the traditional school ma’m look, reducing facial sex appeal. I couldn’t disagree more. Does Linda Carter, in ‘‘Wonder Woman,” look anything other than feminine? Not at all.

Personally/ I would rather wear glasses' than contacts. I think glasses when chosen carefully, can add a little facial mystique. . However, there are ■ a few things we women should consider when making our selection. Avoid the no eyebrows look. Eyebrow's should show, either above the frame or through the lens, unless you very specifically choose a frame which gives you a specially designed sweeping brow. If you need a strong prescription (that is — thick lens), go for smaller frames. A thick lens will magnify or distort the area behind it (accentuating lines and circles.) The smaller the frame and lens, the smaller the area which will be magnified.

Keep in mind that very bright colours and patterns can quickly become tedious, and can distract attention away from your face. The same goes for “fad” shapes and trims, ■but not for the very attractive. ■ new, subtle colours around at present, often blending two or three shades. About temples that is, the side-pieces of the frame, the ones that • curl around the ear are good for glasses you wear for sport. For reading glasses that you are constantly putting on and taking off, your best bet is a frame with straight, or almost straight, temple. Plastic versus glass lenses: You can have either in prescriptions, but keep in mind that plastic is much lighter, a thing to think about with very big frames. Avoid heavy frames if you are to w’ear the glasses for long periods. They tend to drag on the skin beneath the eyes. This can result in loose skin which can fold into “bags.” ;; ’' - For tennis players, if you play on a glaring con T crete court tennis - glasses with yellow lenses will sharpen details and increase contrast tor you. If you w’ear bifocals, the glasses to know about are the seamless ones. These are dual prescription lenses with the top meant for distance viewing, and the bottom for reading, with the line of demarcation ground down to make the seam disappear. The old belief that you had to suit your frames to the shape of your faco nq longer applies. With the right use of makeup you /.can wear almost any shape. However if you have a very long face you’ll probably find that a deep or thin-rimmed rectangular frames will suit you. Tinted glasses look best when the colour of the lens is co-ordinated with the frame (red frame with rose lens, pale tortoiseshell . with brown and black steel with grey or smokey blue. Don’t wear sunglasses indoors or for night driving to cut down headlight glare — they won’t damage your eyes . but they interfere with efficient vi-. sion. . by absorbing too much ’ (at least 60 per cent) light. Don’t get hooked on -.:

; eye-drops; many doctors feel that too frequent use for. cosmetic purposes' may actually worsen the condition’they’re being used for — that is redness. MAKE-UP There are a few’ subtle changes that can help accentuate the eyes beneath glasses. Take care that your brows are carefully shaped; and keep them looking soft in colour so they don’t look like two hard lines Qn your forehead. Use a soft blusher tone. Apply it by . putting your glasses on then bled your blusher along your cheekbone up and slightly under the side-bars oif your frames. A powder blush looks best with glass frames. Avoid wearing any pearly powder under your eyes. It will only accentuate any natural expression lines (wrinkles). - A light dusting of matt, translucent loose, pow’der around and under the eyes always minimises the depth of expression lines. When selecting eye colours, however, you’ do not have to keep your colours super-soft. Instead, sleet colours with depth because pale colours-tend to look washed out and completely “nothing” when put behind your lenses. A useful hint is to first circle your eye with colour. That is apply colour to both top eyelid and take your -colour under your lower eye lashes. This will help to define and completely emphasise your 'eyes when you put on your glasses. Mascara is a must- fop vour lashes. I suggest brownish-black for every- . one. Anything paler can look washed out under frames, and black can give your eyes a heavy, tired look. If you are short-sighted, try this method of applying your eye makeup. Tilt your head back until you are looking down your nose into the mirror; now pull your frames right. down until they are sitting on the very end of your nose. Keeping your head tilted back you will find you have plenty of room . to work behind- your glasses to apply a full eye makeup. When yqu want' to do under your- eyes, / simply keep your head in ’ the ’-' same .position . and move your mirror / upwards. Now you, will be, .looking upwards into* it. ■

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Press, 22 July 1980, Page 12

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Get into good-looking glasses Press, 22 July 1980, Page 12

Get into good-looking glasses Press, 22 July 1980, Page 12