Wish I could have had vision correction but they said my corneas are to thin. :-(

My vision is 20/15. I can read things that most of you can't even see.

Nonetheless, I voted for the thick frames. I own a pair for aesthetic reasons. There's nothing "hipster" about them. Thick plastic frames are SO HOT. I swear, any girl that wears those gets two extra points (on a scale of 10) in my book.

Yeah, you all think I'm weird now. Whatever.

isaaclyman wrote:My vision is 20/15. I can read things that most of you can't even see.

Nonetheless, I voted for the thick frames. I own a pair for aesthetic reasons. There's nothing "hipster" about them. Thick plastic frames are SO HOT. I swear, any girl that wears those gets two extra points (on a scale of 10) in my book.

Yeah, you all think I'm weird now. Whatever.

I agree. Although, I also have nothing at all against a girl with ordinary glasses, still pretty hot.

Oddly enough, the "Birth Control Glasses" from my days in the US Navy now count as hipster specs. So they're cool, sort of, in a way I don't particularly need to be cool. I'll just go with the $30 Sam's club glasses and be one of the five or six bespectacled Darth Mauls at the Star Wars convention, thank you very much.

Glasses for me. Who wants to slice their eyeball open and have a laser beam vaporize the cornea. (really, thats how it's done). No slip of the laser to ruin vision for life.

Having had LASIK done seven years ago now, I can say getting your eyeball suctioned (blacking out vision in it) so that a flap can be cut open with a small buzz saw, getting said flap peeled back, having a laser obliterate a small amount of your cornea and then having the doctor use a small brush to put the flap back down, though a rather odd experience, produces some great results (and I played 18 holes of golf the next day, so pretty much zero recovery time). From about the age of 5 until shortly after I finished undergrad I had to wear glasses or contacts, but since then I have somewhere between 20/20 and 20/15 vision.

isaaclyman wrote: I own a pair for aesthetic reasons. There's nothing "hipster" about them.

...I'm sorry to have to break this to you but it appears you have a bad case of hipster-in-denial.


I can't vote, I wear contacts and glasses(not at the same time). Really, is there anybody out there that wears contacts that doesn't also have glasses?

I had lasik done back in 2006. Best thing ever. No more glasses. It's a great thing.

The procedure isn't as bad as it sounds. It's literally about 15 minutes. I recommenced it to everybody that asks me.

multi-focal contact lenses (so I don't need reading glasses) and hip transition glasses that correct the multi-focal contacts when I'm driving or at a store or whatever. And hip sunglasses that I can wear with my contacts.

isaaclyman wrote:My vision is 20/15. I can read things that most of you can't even see.

Nonetheless, I voted for the thick frames. I own a pair for aesthetic reasons. There's nothing "hipster" about them. Thick plastic frames are SO HOT. I swear, any girl that wears those gets two extra points (on a scale of 10) in my book.

Yeah, you all think I'm weird now. Whatever.

I think the mere fact that you are wearing glasses because you like how they look makes you a hipster or a OMGOMGOMGPONIESOMG PONIES!. It's like using a wheelchair for the fun of it!!

I have good vision since birth (feel like eyesight is getting worse because almost all of my friends have contacts) and I while I have to consider myself vain to a degree, I would never start wearing glasses to look better/cooler/more attractive. I feel like that's too far. Women accessorize everything so I'd be less shocked to hear a woman wears glasses for fun, but still weird since its an invention made for people with bad vision to be able to live like the normals again

I've worn glasses since I was 5.
I tried contacts, but didn't like them.

The 'thick hipster' glasses are just a current fashion phase, and not something I'd personally want to be caught dead in.

As for lasik, if it would work for my eyes I'd probably have it done...but I'm near sighted with a slight touch of astigmatism, and also have presbyopia...and I refuse to go with the 'mono-vision' option.

So I guess I'm stuck with glasses...which works just fine for me.

B)

glasses are fine for fashion, but contacts let me see far better then ANY pair of glasses. No blurry spots, no reflections, no dirt. Contact all the way!

D3lusional wrote:...I'm sorry to have to break this to you but it appears you have a bad case of hipster-in-denial.


I can't vote, I wear contacts and glasses(not at the same time). Really, is there anybody out there that wears contacts that doesn't also have glasses?

i wear contacts but don't own a pair of glasses. i never take my contacts out unless im putting in a new pair.

avatarum wrote:Wish I could have had vision correction but they said my corneas are to thin. :-(

Do you mean you cannot be fitted with regular glasses that will help you to read?

Where's the option for people who can't read the options? HELP

Nothing better than a pair of prescription aviator sunglasses.

When I was a teenager I got the thick, black, rectangular plastic frames, but ever since that first pair I haven't cared for how they look on me. I try a pair of "hipster" frames every time I shop for new glasses, but I always end up with rectangular wire frames now.

I can't claim to not be pretentious, though - my current glasses are Coach frames. I folded the second I saw them. (If only I had handbag insurance so I could finally buy a Coach purse...)

Gunnar Major league gaming glasses, KthxBai

D3lusional wrote:

I can't vote, I wear contacts and glasses(not at the same time). Really, is there anybody out there that wears contacts that doesn't also have glasses?

Yep.

I can't have the surgery due to poor health, and I have severe arthritis in my hands so putting in \ taking out contacts on a daily basis is simply not possible. My best option is the Air Optics Night & Day contacts. They're extremely air-permeable compared to regular contacts and rated for wear during sleep. I typically leave mine in for weeks at a time, which you're not really supposed to do, but it's been four years now and it hasn't affected my vision or my eyes in any way.

I almost never take my contacts out except to change to a new pair, so I have no use for glasses anymore. I think I have a pair somewhere or other, but I haven't seen them in years.