How shall my favorite sunglasses look like?

If you hesitate when you're selecting a pair of sunglasses, here are some tips of my own.

First of all, aviator sunglasses (or pilot sunglasses) will never go wrong. Since aviator style was born, it has never lost its popularity among people especially celebrities.



And the second option is wraparound sunglasses (or shield sunglasses). Because they have the perefect curve to wrap around your face, prevent more sun lights from coming into your eyes, and avoid more dust and wind, they are widely used in daily life or enegertic sports actitivies.



Then if you often attend a party and want to look kind of gorgeous, oversized sunglasses are the best for you, due to their bold frame, thick temples and showy design. By the way, they fit your face better than other shades if you're not satisfied with some parts of your face.



And if you wear sunglasses often in a day, and don't want to draw much attention from others, retro (or vintage) sunglasses are a good choice for you. Because of their traditonal outline (normally they are rectangle or oval shapes) and normal size, they won't look exaggertated, and also they don't make you feel tired when you put them on for a while.



Apart from the above factors, these elements also affect how you will choose sunglasses.

Materials

Sunglasses are mainly made of two materials, plastic (acetate or TR 90) or metal (alloy or titanium). Personally I prefer metal sunglasses (like aviators) in some formal events to plastic shades (such as wafarers) in other casual occasions.


Shapes

According to their geometric shapes, sunglasses can be classified into aviator, square or rectangle, round or oval, cat eye, butterfly, strampunk, polygon (including pentagon, hexagon, heptagon and octagon). Women tend to try more chic shapes (like cat eye, butterfly, oversize or polygon) while men prefer more traditional shapes (like aviator, rectangle or wayfarer).


Frame color

If sunglasses are made of metal, whose color is normally gold (golden), silver (silvery), black, dark brown or gunmetal.

If they are made of plastic, the color of which may be polished black, matt black, brown, tortoise and other fresh color such as white, green, blue, pink or orange.

Of course tortoise here is not a real turtle alike animal, it is a color that resembles the shell pattern of a tortoise. And because of its unique print, tortoise color only exists in plastic frames.

Lenses tint

Unlike the way colors are fully put into frames, lenses tint has another unique freature - how the color is tinted onto lenses, solid, gradient and mirrored.

‘Solid’ means the color is completely tinted on every corner of a lens. And ‘gradient’ means a color is mainly tinted on the top half of a lens, then gradually fade from top to bottom of the lens. Then ‘mirrored’ indicates that the coating on a lens looks like a mirror and reflects lights, which makes you look quite cool.

Mirrored tints are widely applied on aviators or wraparound sunglasses. And most of mirrored tints are mirrored gold or silver, mirrored blue or green.

personally I prefer gradient color because it looks elegant while blocking enough sun lights.

And if you need a cooler effect, mirrored tint will be just right for you because of its feature of reflecting lights.

Nose pads

Adjustable silicon nose pads are used on metal sunglasses, while built-in nose pads are applied on plastic shades. Built-in nose pads have more contact areas that offer comfortable experience if you have to wear them for a while.

Temples thickness

Similarly thick temples may have a more comfortable touch than thin temples do. And you don't have to worry about the weight if temples are thick, because now all sunglasses are made with super light material (especially TR90 frame), except for some oversize sunglasses, which are kind of heavier than others because they have to use more raw materials.