24 Hour Pretty People: Shortsighted

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24 Hour Pretty People: Shortsighted Feb 24th 2012, 22:55 HOME BEAUTY FASHION LIFESTYLE OUT ABOUT Shortsighted Every Friday night (or sometimes Sunday lunchtime if I am watching catch-up) after seeing Zooey Deschanel in the New Girl, with her wonderful geek-chic glasses, I get specs-envy. I am very short sighted. Like an old lady. Worse than my 78 year old father who's eyes have inexplicably fixed themselves in his old age (it is the ONLY thing I am looking forward to as time passes - my dad had better have handed down his magic healing eyeballs to me). I have (against opticians orders) worn contact lenses solidly for the past eight years of my life and have only recently bought a pair of 'emergency' glasses to have on the bedside table in case something terrible happens in the night and I need the power of eyesight.  These desperation glasses were picked from the most budget range in Specsavers and were literally never intended to be worn out of the house. They are basic as they come, black plastic, thick lenses (I wasn't paying for the posh thin versions) and due to said weighty lenses, they slip down my nose, pulled strongly by gravity every time I cast my eyes downward. But Zooey (or rather 'Jess') has inspired me to actually embrace spectacle wearing and perhaps purchase a fancy pair that actually suit me and take longer than one minute to pick out based purely on cheap-factor. I initially thought tortoiseshell may be a bit softer than black and found this pair which I really quite like, even though they are Georgio Armarni, and I don't think I am very, 'Armarni-ish'?! I have moved on from them now, going with a classic black frame, and it has to be either these Chanel delights, or, these Tom Ford beauties . I am actually surprised at how affordable glasses are - averaging around £150 inclusive of  prescription lenses, and it is one designer purchase you can genuinely say is a necessity - without my glasses, I wouldn't last five minutes. I have struggled to locate the kettle pre-putting-in-lenses, god forbid actually pouring out the boiling water...I am a partially sighted accident waiting to happen! Come payday, I may be a whole new bespectacled me...

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