About a month ago, I ended up breaking my glasses. Boo. They were only about 6 months old so I was pretty disappointed. The frames were pretty cheap however but I needed new glasses pretty fast. I discovered Eyebuydirect. Buying glasses online can be mighty sketchy and you need to know your prescription to get them and thankfully, the whole process went well! This was my whole buying glasses experience starting at beginning~
Boo hiss. Granted, after I bought these glasses, I wasn't a huge fan of the shape and colour of them. It looks especially bad with purple hair and I couldn't coordinate red well enough with my outfits most of the time. Most people usually have multiple pairs and I don't, so oop. They also broke clean down the middle so there was no salvaging this baby unless I glued it together and it wasn't worth the effort. I got these from walmart and thankfully I was able to go back and grab my prescription from them since it was less than a year old. If you don't know your prescription or have a copy of it, then you can grab one from your eye doctor if it's within the past year. If it's more than that, they will probably say they can't give it to you and make you take a new one.
In the meantime, I had to wear these glasses. They're fug and I've had them since I was 16 and they were really beat up, crooked and the lens is scratched right in my sight. Also, the prescription is a lot weaker than my current one. I had to make do with wearing these lopsided on my face with a huge blind spot in the middle. However, we make do with what we have and I was, at the least, thankful that I had a backup!
Alas, I went to the internet looking for online glasses retailers. After some research, I thought my best choice was ordering from eyebuydirect. They have a really big selection of glasses and it's very inexpensive as far as glasses/lenses go. I ordered on the 14th and they came the 23rd which wasn't bad. If you're in urgent need of glasses, you're going to be waiting longer than you'd like. These glasses are so inexpensive that I'd recommend buying multiple pairs. For the frames, lenses and shipping it was 27.11$ Quite a steal compared to my former glasses that cost around ~130. One could wonder if they're bad quality or if it's a scam buuuut...
Here are the glasses! I picked out these frames which were only 7 dollars. Honestly, I never go for more expensive frames because I am quite clumsy and a little careless with my glasses [ala above] and cheap frames last me a decent amount of time. Thick plastic frames are also a lot more durable for me. I thought they looked cute and I liked the colour so I thought I would absolutely get them. They're a bit smaller than my black glasses which is good but they're also a nice decent size. They weren't crooked or bent funny and they fit my head just fine. They were very clean, brand new, and they supply you with a nice magnetic case and a microfibre cloth. It did take my eyes a little to get used to the prescription as I had been using my weak one, but now all is fine. They're a little tight but I think I just have a big head. One thing I must stress however is that you need to measure your current glasses because there are lots of measurements provided on the site (The arm length, the dimensions of your lenses, nose width and overall width). There also should be xx-xx-xx measurements on your current glasses on the arm as you can very faintly see in my above pictures. I found really cute glasses but unfortunately my head falls in the category of the large/long glasses so I couldn't budge. I would recommend getting them as close as possible to your measurements or else you run the risk of them not fitting right at all (and it wouldn't be their fault since they're pretty good at providing the exact mm's). I am really happy with this company thus far! I hope to order more backup pairs in the future. I did read bad reviews which made me a little wary, but overall this was a fantastic experience and I'll definitely order more glasses with them in the future.
