Thick glasses

I don't wear glasses or contacts so I don't know if this would really work.. But what if you wore contacts to get your vision close... Then wore glasses that are maybe a little more tame to correct your vision the rest of the way?

Here are some things you can do:

1) Use a high-index material. Unfortunately, this is usually more expensive, and some people are sensitive to chromatic abberration (color separation).

2) Choose a frame style with a smaller eye size. The bigger the lens, the thicker it must be due the the curvature difference between the front and back sides of the lens.

3) Choose an aspheric lens design. More advanced lens designs use this to reduce thickness and distortion.

4) Use a thicker plastic frame. Because the frame is thicker, the less lens sticks out, and it looks thinner. Also, less light enters at the edge of the lens, and this reduces internal reflections that make the lens look stronger. Not polishing the edge also helps reduce the reflections.

5) Sometimes, the lens edge can be ground/beveled to reduce the apparent thickness.



Hope I helped

Jennie, was right on the dot. All of those things will work, except grinding the edges down. That would alter the prescription.

Great advice.

Oooh thanks chi, I didn't know that. My apologies. Thanks for letting us knwo before the OP tried that :P

Note to self, don't GRIND GLASSES DOWN.

Haha. Yeah, all in all great advice though. As Vision Expert, I feel obligated to Greenie you.

Haha thanks just don't do it for real. It might give people the wrong impression. I'm definitely NOT a vision expert. I knew this because I asked my mom, who had to deal with this when I was a teenager and kept complaining about my lenses being too thick so we went to the eye place and they told us that.

No, I'm the vision expert. I was talking about me, duh! LOL. A tad full of myself sometimes.

OOOH I get it :P

A little self confidance is a good thing

LOL...yup.