Whilst anti-reflective (AR) coating helps to make the eye behind the lens more visible, in addition to this they also reduce back reflections of the white of the eye as well as bright objects behind the glasses wearer (e.g. lamps and windows). Such reduction of back reflections increase the apparent contrast of surroundings. At night, AR coatings help reduce the glare from headlamps of oncoming cars, street lamps and heavily lit or neon signs.

Glasses wearers with high index lenses (1.67 and above), should always insist on having AR coating. This may sound like another money spinner, but consider this: an uncoated standard plastic lens reflects 8% of light, whereas an uncoated high index plastic lens will reflect up to 50% more. A rule of thumb is the higher the index, the greater the amount of light reflected. This can lead to increased difficulty with night driving as mentioned above, but also eye fatigue due to decreased light transmittance. With an AR coated lens however, the light transmittance can increase to 99.5%. As a result, reflections and chromatic aberrations are reduced. You will have a clearer view of your surroundings, and the glasses have a better cosmetic appearance.

Now if that was not a reason to spend an additional £10, I don’t know what it!

With today’s design in varifocal (progressive) lenses, most first time wearers notice very few problems at all; this is even more so with freeform back-surfaced varifocals. However for others there can be a short adaption period typically lasting a few minutes to a few days.

When first adapting to your varifocal lens, you may at first feel as though you will never get used to the ’swim’ sensation when you intiallymake quick head movements. You may also experience a blur in the peripheral zones of the varifocal lens when you glance to the far right or left, and especially when you look down. This is because blending lens powers in progressive lenses let’s you see clearly at all distances, but also causes minor aberrations in the perpipheral part of the lenses.

However progressive lens designs have improved significantly over the last several years and have greatly reduced peripheral aberrations, hence first time wearers seldom notice no problems at all now.

If you do experience the blur or “swim” you may at first need to make slight head movements to look more directly at objects. These problems do however disappear as you adjust to your varifocal lens. If however you have a lot of hyperopia (farsightedness), adapting to progressive lenses may take a bit longer than if you are only midly farsighted or are nearsighted.

Other side effects during the adjustment period may include headaches, dizziness, and nausea. If you do experience any of these problems please do not be tempted to return to your single vision (reading/distance) glasses or a different lens design (Bifocal, Trifocal) as this will only serve to increase the adjustment period. Simply remove the varifocal glasses for a short period of time and once the symptoms have subsided, put them back on. But with today’s lens designs, nearly everyone can wear varifocal progressive lenses successfully.

If you are first time varifocal lens wearer, unlike traditional varifocal lenses, our bespoke freeform back-surfaced varifocal lens (£109) is individually crafted to suit your prescription and chosen frame thus making it one of the easiest varifocal lenses to adapt to with little or no adjustment period. See our current offer on the bespoke freeform back-surfaced varifocal lens http://www.glassesframesandlenses.com/VarifocalsOffer

What is freeform?  Well, in short it is a process that unlike traditional varifocal lenses, allows the lens designers to calculate and manufacture the most accurate lenses possible. The benefit to the wearers means they will have a much wider focused viewing area, the highest degree of optical accuracy and a varifocal that is both very comfortable and easy to adapt to.

With the advantage of back-surfaced technology bringing the viewing zones closer to the eye, this means that no matter what you are doing -reading a book, working on your computer or even watching Billy Elliot at the theatre (it’s brilliant by the way!) you will be able to see clearly with minimal discomfort at every distance.

How? The starting point for freeform manufacturing is the highly sophisticated software that allows for not only the inputting of the prescription, but also the frame fitting details and the position of wear. With this combined information a truly customised lens is then crafted, making this type of progressive lens the most advanced on the market.

How much do they cost?  On the high street, these lenses start at around the £220 mark. Online, we can sell them to you for just £109, quite simply as we do not have the overheads that the high street opticians have. You will still receive the same warranties as provided by your high street optician, and as our lab is one of the largest in the UK supporting a major high street optician anyway, you will also receive the same lenses that this very optician would provide!

Don’t miss out! Our bespoke freeform varifocal comes with a FREE 1.6 lens upgrade and FREE super duper 4 in 1 coating until the end of February. See the offer on our homepage for details.

Finally, today we achieved our aim to go live in Europe. Literally within 10 minutes we had our first of what we hope will be many sales. We are very excited about extending our services to our European friends and look forward to providing them with our extensive range of advanced technology lenses, high quality products, and friendly service.

We can successfully compete against any other online glasses retailer, and any high street optician with our vast choice of very high quality lenses and lens products and coatings; we are varifocal lens specialists and can dispense to very high prescriptions and prism prescriptions. By extending this service to our European friends, we hope to take on board a great many more happy customers.

Long gone are the days when people with high prescriptions (+/- 7 Sph and above) have to resort to heavier glass lenses. Whilst glass lenses are perfectly suitable to fulfil high prescriptions and offer a thinner lens, they do not have the advantage of the 1.76 plastic Bi Aspheric lens in terms of weight. For example, on the following prescription whilst the edge substance of the lens on a 1.9 index glass will be similar, the 1.76 platic lens has the advantage of being approximately 18% lighter. 

Right eye: SPH -8.50    Cyl – 1.25                              Left eye: SPH – 9.00  Cyl – 1.25

Individually crafted to your prescription, the 1.76 Bi Aspheric single vision lens is manufactured with Aspheric front and back surface to enhance the optical performance but also to flatten both the rear and front surface of the lens. This gives a thinner lens substance and when combined with the 1.76 index material gives the thinnest, lightest plastic lens available in the world! This lens comes with our super duper 4 in 1 coating as standard.

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So, if you have a high prescription and wish to have the thinnest and lightest lenses available, order exclusively from glassesframesandlenses.com. You will not find this lens anywhere else on the internet! Full warranties and guarantees apply.

Our 1.76 Summit Bi Aspheric Single vision lens retails at £220 and our 1.76 Summit Bespoke Plus Varifocal retails at £285.

We also sell 1.8 index glass (Varifocal only) £189 and 1.9 index glass (Single vision only) £189.

Need more informaiton? all us on 0845 680 9785

It has been a long time in the planning for glassesframesandlenses.com to sell in Europe and finally, we are nearly there!

Last week we commissioned our web developers to do all of the ‘techi’ stuff required on our Site to allow our many enquiries from Europe to finally be presented with the functionality to purchase our gorgeous glasses frames and lenses. Our Google people are also busy beavering away writing all of our Ad Campaigns to get it all started; thank goodness there are wonderful passionate and qualified people to help us deliver this dream!

So, for all of you lovely people who have already purchased from us, and for those of you who have yet to -start spreading the word to all of your contacts in Europe that glassesframesandlenses.com are coming very soon (hopefully by next week!!) and that our postage and packaging will only be £4.95 to cover our costs! Happy days

So, you want to know more about the fantastic creation that is Booth & Bruce?

Well, Peter Booth & Jeremy Setton who both owned their own opticians in London and Brighton began producing their own designs for spectacles. When their designers began to fly off their own shelves, they got the idea of selling their designs to other stores …… Booth & Bruce England was thus born.

So successful were these designs that just 3 years later they were able to sell their optical stores and concentrated on selling Booth & Bruce full time.

“The aim of Booth & Bruce England is to deliver a potent combination of freewheeling urban adventure, and urban design – giving British eyewear something not seen before”. They certainly achieve that!

They combine shimmering colours with their own vivacity, and seek in-your-face styles that are both hard to ignore, and even harder to forget.

So, if you want to look chic and funky in these oooh so cool Booth & Bruce glasses, take a look at our collection; I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Don’t forget, whilst we cannot discount these fantastic frames as instructed by the boys themselves; we do offer free standard reading or distance lenses that come with anti-scratch coating too! Now you won’t get that down your local opticians!!

Start looking at the frames now and follow the link:

http://www.glassesframesandlenses.com/BoothAndBruce

P.S. If you purchase your Booth & Bruce frame from us, send us a picture and we’ll create a ‘We love Booth & Bruce’ page with all of your photo’s. Stardom at last ……

Our February Offer beings a further massive saving of £60 on the cost of your order when you purchase our bespoke, back-surfaced varifocal lenses. We will give you a FREE 1.6 thin lens upgrade and FREE 4 in 1 super duper coating!

Our bespoke varifocal lenses are the very latest in varifocal lens technology; quite simply the varifocal and prescription are on the rear surface of your lens bringing you much better visual acuity. Traditionally varifocals are on the front of the lens and therefore your field of vision may not be as clear and defined and it could be.

For more information on the bespoke varifocal, follow the following link:  http://www.glassesframesandlenses.com/About+varifocals_48.html

Hurry, our offer ends February 28th.