I have purchased many many pairs of prescription glasses over the last 15-20 years from high-end brands and other and I have been a fan of Firmoo glasses now for the last year. Thankfully, my eyes are not yet so bad that I can’t see without them, but still… I find that I can’t see as great as before and I’m constantly looking for a pair that will not only match my pocket book and wallet requirements but also my endless change in style. Soon into my early twenties, my eyes started to prove genetics right and years later, I now wear glasses frequently if not daily. I grew up with perfect vision, but was a bit scared that in my twenties my eyes would get bad for me as it did with my mom and dad. Much to my surprise, I LOVED them! I actually liked them better than the pair I had selected from my optometrist's office.Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pinterest Email PRESS SAMPLE
A couple days later they arrived, and I anxiously tore open the package and ran to the bathroom to try them on. I ordered them in my prescription and held my breath while I waited for them to come. This was useful when selecting my frames, but I still wasn't sure about how accurate it would be when the glasses actually arrived and I had them on my face. I used the Firmoo website's feature of uploading a picture of myself so I could "try" the frames on my face. When I went to the Firmoo website, I looked for a similar pair of frames, and found one. So as a back up - I tried on a bunch of frames at my optometrist's office and finally settled on a pair that I liked. I am really fussy, and I didn't think I would like a pair of glasses that I didn't have the opportunity to try on. I have worn glasses since I was 8 years old, and I have always purchased my glasses from my optometrist's office. Honestly, I was a little skeptical about the process of buying glasses online. I thought I'd just make due by wearing my contact lenses more, but let me tell you - sitting at my computer doing design work in the midnight hours with contact lenses that I'd worn for probably 16 or so hours already that day was beginning to take it's toll (burning, really). I am pretty heavily dependent on corrective eye-wear (ie: without the advent of the corrective lens, natural selection would've weeded me out long ago), and while my husband has a great job with good benefits, our optical coverage only renews every 2 years, and at the time I destroyed my glasses we still had a year to go. That worked - but it scratched the be-jeepers out of my lenses! So I made a totally idiotic, impulse decision and grabbed the steel-wool that was sitting in the corner of my sink and used it to scrub the paint off of my glasses. Trouble was I left it a little too long and wasn't able to simply wash off the paint. This has happened before, and I have been able to wash them off, so that's just what I thought I'd do this time too.
I was wearing my glasses instead of safety goggles, and well, my glasses got coated in paint droplets. You see, a little while back I was working on a DIY project, spray painting some furniture.
For the most part I just end up deleting these requests, but one from offering me a free pair of glasses in exchange for an honest review of their eye-wear actually caught my attention. Ever since my blog has been receiving some decent traffic, I get emails from folks asking me to feature "this" on my blog, or mention "such and such" in a blog post.