Short-Sighted or Long-Sighted: What the Difference Actually Is

Short-Sighted or Long-Sighted: What the Difference Actually Is

Plenty of people know they need glasses without ever being clear on why. They know the number plate ahead is blurry, or that the menu has started drifting further from their face, and they know an ...
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Do Blue Light Glasses Actually Work?

Do Blue Light Glasses Actually Work?

Maybe you already own a pair. Maybe you are standing in a pharmacy right now, reading the packaging and wondering if it is actually worth it. Or maybe you just clocked your third afternoon headache...
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Contact Lenses and Water: Swimming, Showering and the Surf

Contact Lenses and Water: Swimming, Showering and the Surf

Swimming with contact lenses is one of those habits that feels harmless because nothing goes wrong the first hundred times. You jump in at the local pool, open your eyes underwater, get out, and ev...
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Contact Lenses in Allergy Season

Contact Lenses in Allergy Season

If you wear contact lenses and dread spring, you are not imagining the connection. Allergy season is harder on lens wearers than on everyone else, and it comes at you from two directions at once. P...
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Reading Glasses vs Prescription Glasses

Reading Glasses vs Prescription Glasses

If you've been squinting at your phone or holding a book at arm's length, you've probably wondered about reading glasses vs prescription glasses and which one you actually need. They might look sim...
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How to Care for Your Contact Lenses Safely

How to Care for Your Contact Lenses Safely

Contact lenses sit directly on the surface of your eye, which is one of the few parts of your body with no blood supply of its own. That is what makes good habits matter here in a way they do not w...
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Common Contact Lens Problems 

Common Contact Lens Problems 

You put your lenses in this morning and everything was fine. By 2pm, your eyes feel dry and gritty. You blink a few times, top up with some eye drops, and push through. By the time you get home, yo...
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How to Clean and Store Your Glasses Without Scratching Them

How to Clean and Store Your Glasses Without Scratching Them

Most scratched lenses are not damaged by accidents. They are worn down slowly, by the shirt hem used for a quick wipe, by the bathroom bench they were left on face down, by the paper towel grabbed ...
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Can You Sleep in Contact Lenses?

Can You Sleep in Contact Lenses?

Can You Sleep in Contact Lenses? What Most Wearers Do Not Know You get home late. You are tired. You sit down for a minute and suddenly it is 2am, and you have been asleep on the couch for three ho...
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