How to Look Amazing in Glasses -- Grace

So I have news:  Soon, I'll be calling an optometrist and getting an appointment for the first time since September 2013.  Not only that, but because my glasses have been broken and repaired so many times since then (I practically LIVED at Gerry Optical last spring...), I'll be able to choose new frames as well.  I'm SUPER excited, because I can't read sheet music any more -- and that is something I NEED to know how to do.

Well, I got started thinking a few weeks ago...there are SO many kinds of glasses, from semi-rimless to the 80's coke-bottles.  Nowadays your glasses can make you a chic businesswoman, a nerd, or a funky teenager.

I also got started thinking that just like hair, there must be guidelines for choosing glasses for your face shape.  Since my face is round, I researched into choosing glasses for a round face, and what I found was really fascinating.  I thought I'd share some of my newly-acquired glasses knowledge with you guys, in case you're curious!

The Face Shapes
As you may or may not know, there are generally four to five different kinds of face shapes.  These are, according to the wonderful world of Google....

-- Oval.  Oval faces are just amazing.  I covet them.  ;)

-- Round.  My face is either round or heart-shaped.  I've had people tell me both.  Round faces are slightly wider at the cheeks.

-- Square.  As the name suggests...they are square!

-- Heart.  Heart faces are wider at the cheeks and have a generally narrow chin.  It seems that they often have widow's peaks too.

Perhaps Promise would be able to provide you with more information on these.  :)  I'm not technically a huge makeup researcher like SOME PEOPLE are................... ;)

Coloring
Although it's not technically needed, you should know your coloring before you go glasses shopping (Promise did a post about that here.)  As you most likely know, you're most likely either warm or cool (I'm cool...*pulls up the sunnies*).

Warm people look best in gold, orange, brown, tan, olive, red, yellow, and ivory glasses.

Cool people look best in black, tortoiseshell (I want these so badly!), blue, purple, pink, gray, green, and silver.

For an oval face...
Oval faces can wear anything and rock it.  I'm slightly envious, but that would make choosing glasses rather boring.  You would never know the heartbreak of passing up those gorgeous frames you just saw on the rack.....

For a round face...
People with round faces look best in rectangular glasses.  The bottoms of the glasses should sit just above the cheekbone for the best effect.  I'm particularly partial to the look of semi-rimless glasses to make everything look less defined, but after this recent pair, I won't try any for awhile.  I'm looking forward to some square torties. :)

For a square face...
For our friendly followers with square faces (which I have always admired), you would look best in oval or round or circular glasses.  Rectangular frames can make you look more angular and square, but circular frames can balance all of those angles out.  Just don't go for geometric frames, and you'll be FINE.

For a heart-shaped face...

Go for round, cat-eyed, square...just NO top-heavy frames for you.  Sorry.  :)  Heart-shaped faces are already a little heavy up top, because the forehead is usually wider than the cheek and chins -- thus giving it the shape of a heart.  So you want to draw attention away from the forehead.

:D

Have fun on your next glasses shopping spree!  ;)

~ Grace