All you'll need to know about your ophthalmic Prescription in order to buy glasses online
he bricks'n'mortar stores on the high street are often conservative affairs with very little to offer the customer in the line of adventurous colours or styles. Online spectacles providers fill this market segment and unless yours is a very extreme or unusual glasses prescription there is no reason why you cannot avail of saving up to 70% on the price of your eyeglasses by buying online. Many people consider purchasing glasses online a potentially foolhardy and aesthetically risky endeavour as many sites still do not have virtual Try On software. All this is changing fast. Now you have the potential to indulge in colourful, fun, funky and stylish styles without aesthetic risk by deciding to Try on & Buy glasses online today!
Before you sit down to have a look it's probably best if you have your most recent optical prescription to hand (this should have been given to you by your optician and is valid for a maximum of two years). Your prescription should have your pupillary distance measurement in millimetres to ensure that your lenses can be made to perfectly suit your eyes.
Next, make sure that you have a bright and clean digital photograph of your face taken while you are looking squarely at the camera with a smile or a neutral expression. Some sites offer Live Try On facilities and these will usually take your photograph for you.
Go to a suitable website that allows you to Try on & Buy glasses online and click on the "Try On" button beside any frames of interest. Next, upload your photograph or else click on the webcam icon. If you opt for the webcam option, a dialogue box will appear asking if the Try On software can interface with your webcam. You should click "Allow" when this happens. The glasses frame of interest will now appear in front of your face. Some versions of Virtual Try on will allow you to snap up to six pictures of your face wearing different frames so that you can try on up to six pairs of glasses and then quickly scroll through the Try on photographs. This allows you to narrow your search and find the pair(s) that are perfect for you.
If you are tempted to buy then you should click to purchase. Many sites then present the customer with the dimensions of the frames of interest in millimetres. These should be checked against the measurements of your own frames. Thus you eliminate the risk of purchasing frames without adequate bridge width for your nose or temple length to sit comfortably behind the ear etc. As a rule of thumb you should opt for frames of similar dimensions to your existing comfy pair.
Next you need to enter your prescription details into the form dedicated for that purpose.
Remember: Don't check once, check twice and check thrice that
Before you sit down to have a look it's probably best if you have your most recent optical prescription to hand (this should have been given to you by your optician and is valid for a maximum of two years). Your prescription should have your pupillary distance measurement in millimetres to ensure that your lenses can be made to perfectly suit your eyes.
Next, make sure that you have a bright and clean digital photograph of your face taken while you are looking squarely at the camera with a smile or a neutral expression. Some sites offer Live Try On facilities and these will usually take your photograph for you.
Go to a suitable website that allows you to Try on & Buy glasses online and click on the "Try On" button beside any frames of interest. Next, upload your photograph or else click on the webcam icon. If you opt for the webcam option, a dialogue box will appear asking if the Try On software can interface with your webcam. You should click "Allow" when this happens. The glasses frame of interest will now appear in front of your face. Some versions of Virtual Try on will allow you to snap up to six pictures of your face wearing different frames so that you can try on up to six pairs of glasses and then quickly scroll through the Try on photographs. This allows you to narrow your search and find the pair(s) that are perfect for you.
If you are tempted to buy then you should click to purchase. Many sites then present the customer with the dimensions of the frames of interest in millimetres. These should be checked against the measurements of your own frames. Thus you eliminate the risk of purchasing frames without adequate bridge width for your nose or temple length to sit comfortably behind the ear etc. As a rule of thumb you should opt for frames of similar dimensions to your existing comfy pair.
Next you need to enter your prescription details into the form dedicated for that purpose.
Remember: Don't check once, check twice and check thrice that
- You have entered all of the numbers correctly
- You have entered the sign in front of the numbers correctly.
- You have entered your papillary distance correctly.
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