Guide
Which frame for a round face?
The useful rule is one sentence: look for contrast. An angular frame gives a round face structure; a round frame doubles it. The rest is proportion, and thirty seconds in front of a mirror settles it.
Journal
What an optician explains at the counter.
Three pieces written once so they need not be repeated twenty times a week. They sell nothing: they let you choose without us.
WorkshopWhat an anti-reflective coating actually does
It protects you from nothing. It increases the light that passes through the lens instead of bouncing off it — which makes your eyes visible to other people and tires them less in the evening. It is not a filter, and nobody should sell it to you as one.
GuideReading a prescription: sphere, cylinder, axis
Three numbers per eye, and a fourth once you are past forty-five. Knowing how to read them keeps you from accepting a quotation whose most expensive line you cannot check.