The frames you choose should match your lifestyle.

Don’t choose a funky comical pair of glasses if you are only buying one pair! Chances are, you'll probably also need to wear them to school, church, interviews, on the train and busses and every day to work. You know best what your everyday style is: Smart business or jeans and T-shirts, etc so choose something that matches most of your moods.



Construction of frame varies with different materials.

You'll need to select plastic, metal or a combination of both. For folk who are tough on glasses and don’t care for them as they should consider metal frames because they usually last longer, particularly stainless steel and titanium, which is also nice if you think you'll want to keep the frames a long time and just get new lenses when needed. Because most metal frames have adjustable nose pads, they work well for people whose noses are too small or large for plastic frames. If you're allergic to any metals, but have your heart set on a metal frame, make sure to get one that's hypoallergenic. Also, you might want to take into account the kind of jewellery you like to wear: if you wear a lot of gold, you might not want silver-coloured frames and vice versa.

Plastic frames tend to be less expensive and feel lighter on your face. They usually need less maintenance than metal ones, but certain types of plastic contract and expand with temperature changes and require more frequent adjustments.

Do you tend to accidentally break things a lot? If so, you might want to look into flexible hinges, which are more indestructible than regular hinges. For example, you can bend the temples (the side "arms") out more than you can with regular hinges.


Alloy, stainless steel, memory titanium, and memory plastic.

Alloy

The most popular
Most of the metal eyeglass frames, including the expensive designer brand frames, sold in the world are made of what is called nickel silver alloy in the trade. Oddly enough nickel silver usually has very little if no silver at all but is an alloy of mostly copper, nickel, zinc, and iron. This fairly durable metal holds its shape well, and can be plated easily to a wide variety of colours, it has relatively low material cost and is easy to manufacture, hence its popularity for eyeglass frames. A downside is that about 10% of the population has at least some minor allergy to nickel, but since these frames are almost always colour electroplated, they shield and protect the nickel from touching the skin. However, the parts that do rest on the skin, like the nose pads and temple tips are usually of plastic anyway.
Our range of nickel silver frames have high quality electroplated finish and have hypoallergenic soft plastic nose pads and plastic temple tips for maximum comfort.

Stainless steel

Our superb range of stainless steel frames, compared to our alloy frames, are much lighter, and far more durable, stronger, flexible, and corrosion resistant. These frames are a steel and chrome alloy and unlike nickel silver alloy are hypoallergenic. Stainless steel is harder to manufacture into eyeglass frames than alloy and hence these frames are more expensive but they make one of the best frames available. Value for money - they cannot be beaten!

Titanium frames

Our magnificient range of Titanium frames use the very latest Alloy technology and are extremely strong, light, and durable. Beta titanium is a special titanium alloy is also light and strong but slightly cheaper than pure titanium.

Memory plastic frames

Our memory plastic frames uses the latest plastic technology to produce a very light, extremely flexible frame with a strong shape memory similar to metal alloy SMA's. This material, unlike most plastics, does not stretch or shrink when heated, and the colour is impregnated into the resin so it will not scratch, chip, or wear off.

Eyeglass frames should complement your features and colouring.

The frame's bridge (that part of the frame that joins the lenses in the front) can affect how your eyes and nose look. A thin or clear bridge gives the illusion of width to eyes that are close-set, while a coloured bridge will make wide-set eyes appear closer together while a low bridge will make your nose appear shorter.

Frame sizes.

The frame size information provided for rimless frames is of course dependant on the shape of lens you choose. For example -a larger pair of lenses will increase the overall width of the rimless frame, but the temple (arm) length and bridge width will not change. So do be carefull when choosing lenses for rimless frames.