Contact Options For Ageing Eyes
Fabafterfifty: reading glasses
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Article by Aaron Beard. We often need to wear glasses for the first time once we reach our 50s, and I have memories of all my grandparents and older relatives wearing bifocal glasses, but I hadn’t appreciated that it is possible to have bi-focal contact lenses as well as bi-focal glasses. Aaron Beard explores the options for addressing midlife eye issues. Dealing with eye deterioration The body changes in virtually innumerable ways as people grow older, and while some of these changes are impossible to address, many others are possible to deal. One example of a physical byproduct of aging that can be addressed with relative ease is deterioration in eye strength and comfort. While young people often enjoy lengthy periods of time without any changes in their vision, people in their 50’s and 60’s and beyond often experience a variety of detrimental changes with their eyes. Typically, these problems...
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Top tips. How to do your make up if you wear glasses.
Article by Ariane Poole It is a fact that as we get older most of us will be needing glasses for one reason or another. Glasses can be a glamorous accessory and reading glasses are almost mandatory after 50! Spend time choosing the right shape and colour. As a general rule the shape of the frame should be in contrast to your face, eg don´t choose a round frame if you´ve got a round face! Frame colour should be determined primarily by skintone. If you have warm colouring, choose khaki, gold, tortoiseshell. Cool-toned complexions should opt for grey, plum, black. Now that you have chosen the right frame it’s time to look at how your glasses affect the way you put on your make-up and the type and textures you use. Not only does the shape of the frame play a part in applying your make-up so does your prescription....
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Say Goodbye to Glasses with Clarivu
Guest Article. Total vision correction procedure to keep you seeing and looking fab after 50! Always reaching for your glasses to read the paper? And then a different set to drive or watch TV? Fed up of losing your specs several times a day? You are not alone! More and more people in the UK are suffering from presbyopia – the natural hardening of the eyes’ lens – which can lead to long and short sighted vision, and can make increasing reliance on glasses a necessary nuisance. But thanks to leading eye care experts Optegra, there is a solution. Clarivu™ Total Vision Correction is making a dramatic difference as it means you may never have to wear glasses again. Most common eye complaints which can be treated with Clarivu: Presbyopia Presbyopia is age-related loss of reading vision where the lenses in the eyes naturally thicken, harden, become less flexible and cannot...![clarivu_logo_FINAL[1]](http://www.fabafterfifty.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/clarivu_logo_FINAL1-150x150.jpg)
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