Glasses and Frames

Glasses say so much about your personality. Along with improving your vision, you want frames that will fit with your personal style. Trust the professionals who offer a variety of frames and will make sure your glasses work for your eyes and lifestyle!

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Eyeglasses and Frame Selection

Choosing the Right Frames

Selecting the best frames for your glasses shouldn’t feel overwhelming. At Visionary Eye Doctors, we are happy to work with you in selecting frames that complement your features. Our experienced optometry professionals work closely with you to select the proper frames to fit your budget as well as your cosmetic, lifestyle, and vision needs. While working with our experienced staff enables you to select the appropriate frames, we invite you to learn more about which frame styles complement various face shapes.

Highlight your features

Pick your best or favorite feature and pick a frame to highlight it.
Some features to consider highlighting would be your eyes, hair, skin color, and face shape. For example, if you have blue eyes, try a blue or blue gray frame to match and highlight your eye color.
Match or complement colors
- Your skin, eyes, and hair work together to create your overall coloring. Everyone has either a cool (blue or pink undertones) or a warm (yellow or orange undertones) overall color. Try a frame from our color list below to complement your coloring.
- Warm coloring: Stay away from contrasting colors such as pastels. White and black frames may tend not to be flattering either. Instead, the best frame colors for you are light tortoise, browns shades, gold or honey, copper, red, beige, warm blue and olive green.
- Cool coloring: Avoid colors that wash you out and instead reach for frames that are silver, black, dark tortoise, pink, purple, blue, rose-brown, mauve and gray.
Find the perfect size
- Try on multiple pairs to see what size fits your face shape best.
- If the frames are too small your peripheral vision will be limited and could potentially feel tight on the head. The frames should not pinch your nose, leave red marks, slide down your nose, or easily slip off your head. The tightness around your ears can be adjusted to get the perfect fit.
Fit your frames to your lifestyle
- Make sure your frames will work for every part of your life and will be a representation of you and your personality.
- Pick frames to match your unique lifestyle and hobbies. Consider your common activities when choosing frames. For example, if you are more active you may want a pair of sports eyewear or a wraparound band. If you spend a lot of time on the computer, you may want eyeglasses with a tinted lens.
Lifestyle Lens Specialty Coatings – ZEISS DuraVision Blue Protect and ZEISS DuraVision DriveSafe
- Blue Protect blocks harmful computer, smartphone, tablet and etc rays from harming your eyes, releives eye strain and helps in visio clarity.
- DriveSafe Lens provides better vision in low-light conditions for safer and more comfortable driving, reduces glare at night from oncoming cars or street lights, provides up to 43% larger mid-distance zone for easier focus switching between dashboard and mirrors.
Are weight and material important to you?

Frames are most commonly made of plastic, metal, or a combination of materials. This combination determines the longevity, weight, and average cost of a frame.

Key Features:

Stainless steel and titanium are long lasting
Metal frames often have adjustable nose pads
Metal frames can come in hypoallergenic materials
Plastic frames tend to be lighter
Plastic frames typically need less maintenance than metal frames
Flexible hinges allow the “arms” to bend more than regular hinges

Our opticians can help you in selecting the perfect pair and with our WOW gurantee – it’s great to shop local and small!

Selecting Your Frames

Selecting the right frames for your eyeglasses shouldn’t be stressful. At Visionary Eye Doctors, our experienced and trained staff will assist you in selecting frames what work best for your lifestyle.

To get an idea of what frames may be best for you, check out our guide below for frame selection based on your face shape.

Base-Down Triangle Face

A base-down triangle face has a narrower forehead with full cheeks and a broad chin. To offset a broad chin, select frames that widen at the top. Great selections include frames that have heavy color accents and detail on the top part of the frames. Cat-eye shapes also work well to add width and emphasize the narrow upper part of the face.

Diamond Face

A diamond shaped face is often characterized by high, dramatic cheekbones with a narrow eye line and jaw line. This shape is the rarest of all the shapes. Oval frames that are soft in style typically work best to highlight the eyes and cheekbones. Select frames that have detailing, distinctive brow lines, are rimless or a cat-eye shape for best results.

Heart-Shaped Face (or Base-Up Triangle)

A heart-shaped face looks like a heart or a triangle with the point facing down. The forehead is very wide and cheekbones are high while the face narrows towards the chin. Counterbalance the narrow chin by choosing frames that are wider at the bottom. Generally, light colored and rimless frames work best, although aviator, butterfly and low-triangle styles also work well.

Oblong Face

Although fairly similar to an oval shape, an oblong face is longer than it is wide. The ideal frames will shorten the face by creating a break in the length of the face. Choose frames that have depth and a low bridge to shorten the nose. Try frames that are round, deep, have low-triangle shapes, or that have strong vertical lines.

Oval Face

The oval face is identifiable by its balanced proportions. The forehead is slightly wider than the chin and cheekbones are high. Frames should complement the natural proportions of the oval. Choose frames that are wide or wider than the broadest part of the face and that follow your brow line. Often, diamond or rectangular shapes work best for oval shapes.

Round Face

A round or full face is characterized by having the same width and length. For round faces, frames that add length to the face often work best. Frames that lengthen the face are typically angular, narrow and are wider than they are deep. It is best to avoid round style frames as these will exaggerate the roundness and curves of the face.

Square Face

A square face is often characterized by a strong jaw line, a broad forehead, and a wide chin and cheekbones. The width and length of the face are close to being equal. Frames should be selected to make the face look longer and to soften the square angles of the face. Choose frames that are slightly curved (like an oval shape) and that have more horizontal than vertical real estate.

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When Was Your Last Eye Exam?

Eyeglasses are only as good as the prescription they carry, so it’s important to make sure you’re up to date with your eye exams before ordering. Whether your last eye examination was last year or in the last decade, our highly trained team at Visionary Eye Doctors can provide you with a comprehensive eye examination and help determine what eyeglasses are best for you.

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Glasses and Frames

Eyeglasses and Frame Selection

Choosing the Right Frames

Highlight your features

Match or complement colors

Find the perfect size

Fit your frames to your lifestyle

Lifestyle Lens Specialty Coatings – ZEISS DuraVision Blue Protect and ZEISS DuraVision DriveSafe

Are weight and material important to you?

Selecting Your Frames

Our Eyeglass Brands Include:

When Was Your Last Eye Exam?

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