#I also bought prescription sunglasses and they got the color wrong

[raeathnos]

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[rejamart]

Eye update! It's good news!

Thank you all who bought adopts or otherwise helped out. The retina place cut me a deal, and I also got lucky afterwards (will explain in a sec) and so I am just about as set as I possibly can be, visionwise.

TLDR the thing I was afraid had happened had not happened! I do have some "mild" early-onset vitreous issues but we already knew that. My current problems are a combination of that + a much worsening astigmatism, and unfortunately it's a "learn to live with it" situation but knowing that I am not actually going blind over there has made me pretty cheerful about just accepting the fact that my eyes are still shit, lol. So, the good news is I am not going blind yet; the bad news is that I am still experiencing just the most incredibly annoying visual disturbance you can imagine and will be for the foreseeable future.

In addition, my retina guy hooked me up and I am on regular check-up surveillance with them now, so I won't have to panic next time something goes wrong as I will be able to see someone ASAP and it won't bankrupt me to do so.

The retina guy's recommendation was that I a) get a regular eye exam pronto to address the astigmatism and b) start wearing sunglasses more religiously. I will confess that I was so relieved about the "you're not going blind yet" news that I didn't actually ask why this was/how he knew this besides my eyes watering uncontrollably when they put a light to them, so I'm not sure of what the actual reasoning is, but basically I've been told I need to be wearing sunglasses every time I'm outdoors or even in a particularly brightly lit room, and also that I should be turning down my monitor brightness as much as my work allows me to, which might be tricky for me but I'm going to see what I can do. You may start seeing new color palettes in my adopts soon :V I'm also going to start using a blue light filter as long as I'm doing sketches/lineart and just removing it for coloring.

I was fortunate enough to be able to book a discounted eye exam the very next day (today) and also lucked into some incredible good timing with discounts at Zenni, so I have not only new sunglasses on the way (since my old ones were three prescriptions ago and I couldn't really see out of them), but new regular glasses too, with my new astigmatism corrections. So within the next two weeks or so quite a bit of my vision-related headache issue should be relieved, and I'm hoping it'll let me sit at a computer for more than a couple of hours at a time even with the annoying floaters/flashers, especially since I'm not flying off into an existential panic attack every time I see them now. Thank you again for your support and help!

[leisurefarmers]

10 Ways to Wear The Accessory That Never Goes Out of Style

Guys! I am so excited to share this fall campaign we shot a couple weeks ago! I am always looking forward to fall fashion. There are endless layer options and countless accessories, but one of my favorite accessories is one that you’ll wear year-round – eyewear! Whether it’s eyeglasses or sunglasses, eyewear is really one piece that fully completes a look, and it’s crazy how a different pair of frames can totally transform a look.

After I had Beckam my eyesight got worse! I don’t know if that’s a thing of if it was coincidence, or was just a part of aging, but my vision isn’t as strong as it used to be. Funny thing, in high school I ALWAYS wanted glasses. I tried to purposely fail my eye exams so I could get my parents to buy my glasses. Didn’t do a good enough job faking it

so I always bought plain lens frames (without a prescription) because I loved glasses to much!

Now that I have a true need for them, I love getting to add glasses to my looks. To be honest, I somehow always misplace them though! I usually have my sunglasses spread out all around my car, house, and bags so I always have a pair somewhere, but I only had a few prescription glasses so I’ve been on the lookout for new frames to have them handy. LensCrafters has so many of my favorite brands: Michael Kors, Coach, Tory Burch, and so many more! I’m obsessed with their fall styles! Below are 10 frames I picked out and 10 ways to style them. Which one is your favorite??

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| LOOK 1 | : BLACK GLASSES – 0HC6120

Glasses are like shoes – you can never have too many options! I’m always taking mirror selfies to help me figure out which accessories I like best with an outfit, whether it’s shoes, bags, or glasses.

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| LOOK 2 | : TORTOISE GLASSES – 0TY2071

No two tortoise patterns are the same, but these might be my favorite! I love the color variation in the tortoise pattern. It brings in so many pretty tones that accentuate any eye color.

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    | LOOK 3 | : BLACK WIRE FRAME GLASSES – 0MK3024 |

Wire frames are one of my go-to when it comes to eyewear. I love that these throwbacks are in style right now!

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| LOOK 4 | : GOLD DETAIL SUNGLASSES – 0TY6061 (ALSO AVAILABLE IN OPTICAL FRAMES HERE)

Obsessed with the gold detailing on these sunglasses! It’s hard for me to find a pair of sunglasses that is different from anything I already own, but these are really unique. The gold detailing will make a statement without overpowering your look.

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| LOOK 5 | : BLUE TORTOISE READERS – 0MK3023

Date night ready! Love the subtle blue in these tortoise readers and they add a sophisticated balance to this night-out ensemble.

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| LOOK 6 | : COACH SUNGLASSES – 0HC8240

One accessory I wear in 99% of my posts – sunglasses! Love this classic black pair that will go with anything.

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| LOOK 7 | : TORTOISE GLASSES – 0HC6120

How you dress will always affect how you feel. Even when I’m working from home, I can tell a difference in my productivity those days that I get ready and the days I lounge in my sweats. It’s definitely a mental thing, but I think the same is true of glasses! I always feel a little more confident and capable when I’m wearing my glasses.

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| LOOK 8 | : RAY-BAN SUNGLASSES – 0RB3025

My eyewear collection – like my closet – is full of neutrals, but don’t underestimate some great colored options! I always love a bold shoe, and these aviators are the perfect way to tie in the metallic blue from my sandals.

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| LOOK 9 | : GOLD WIRE FRAMED GLASSES – MK3025

Ready to curl up with a magazine! I’m trying to get better about wearing my glasses at home, and this pair makes it so easy! I’m obsessed with all the wire frames that we are seeing this season, especially in gold.

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| LOOK 10 | : TORTOISE GLASSES – 0HC6102

You can never go wrong with a classic pair of tortoise frames. Glasses are the easiest way to tie in subtle patterns or colors to pull your look together.

Which frames are your favorite? You can shop the rest of the LensCrafters collection at Macy’s here and more of my favorite frames below.

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XX, Christine

*In collaboration with LensCrafters at Macy’s. 

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[whimsically-ominously-auspice]

Y'all in the village that have seen me recently

I apologize, y'all will just have to bless this sweet darling heart

My eyes have become super sensitive to the sun and I have to wear sunglasses (i got $250 worth of contacts with my stimulus check -- 12 boxes including one free sample due to the brand i purchased being discontinued suddenly and my prescription being out of stock - contact lens.com, i highly recommend. I did send inal a photo of my valid prescription) Usually I'm extremely picky and don't buy the lightly tinted lenses. But Wal-Mart had them on sale and usually that's all they sell. Usually i get mine from eBay and spend hours if not days searching for them cute and dark, zooming in the photos to see how the tint is reflected, refracted and if i can see through it. Usually sunglasses are very honestly shown for some reason.

Anyway so these are so thin I forget I am wearing them!

So, I'm all parading in Wal-Mart in purple sunglasses and all in the drive thru like an I don't care diva!

I don't know the origin, yet. Or where it came from... If it was just an agreed upon practice by international law or if it's just me. Idk.

But i think its rude to hide your eyes when speaking to someone. Like its not something conscious. I didn't sit around deciding it was a pet peeve or some law, but when i was a waitress tossing pizzas out the drive through pick up line or just a casual shopper -- people in sunglasses and not lifting them or removing them always bugged at me and irked me suspicious.

So I've been all parading around completely unaware because I've had to wear regular prescription clear lenses for so long that I'm used to the weight of glasses, especially in public because that's the only time I wore them. They just became part of me

And the tint is just see through light -- like the same color of my regular daytime light in my bedroom that every one says is dark. And a light bulb does illuminate. I'm very vampire dungeon darkness.

So I just wanted to apologize that i been all looking like Miss Princess don't care.

I always refused to buy light lenses because i thought they didn't work or weren't worth it. The sun here is so strong. But they do definitely help and are so comfortable i don't know they're in place.

So I care but my eyes hurt a lot. And the contacts kind of made it worse. Like when I take my non insulin diabetic shot, after 10 to 20 minutes I can feel it go into the back of my eyeballs and it feels so good!!

Its not a super pain or uncomfortable and its more when I don't sleep or am upset. I guess my pupils dilate weird

Which my eye doctor before the last, I was on Percocet and well the same 13 prescriptions as well as a few more for pain and so on. And he told me to be cautious as my pupils don't dilate proper due to "being so heavily drugged"

So who knows. I just try to avoid light.

And these sunglasses help and I don't know I'm wearing them. So I'm not hiding behind a mask and cute tinted sun glasses. I'm just protecting my eyes and preventing pain.

Like i say. The pain is from the brain to indicate a problem. So there's a problem Idk how to diagnose and verify or solve. So.

Its not intense just pressure and an auto response to avoid light. Like my kid turns on the lightbulb and I'm all its so fucking bright!!!! Although now the florescent burnt out thank God because that gave me migraines. And I got an LED. But the choices ar the dollar tree were limited to be 60 watt equivalent when I prefer a 40 watt or 30 even.

So I notice the intensity in my eyeballs changing in response to the light

When we lived in Alabama and we were about to move to NYC and my parents had always said Florida would be our next stop.

And i developed an allergy to the sun. A real allergy to the sun. It's a rare condition. My skin would marblize a red color and I would begin to feel faint and/or throw up if I was in direct sun.

It was right after Denise had become Zulululu.

And so I still have remenents of the non contagious disease. Although I was kept from school for 6 weeks... Like my legs if get hot then they get itchy and the sun irritates my eyeballs.

So I always buy sunglasses but I don't always wear them but have them available.

My daughter has the blue light blocker AND the progressive lens so that in the sun they turn to a light see through sun glasses. Zinnie.com I think I spelled it wrong m allong with a basic pair of clear glasses with a anti reflective coat for like $5 I paid about $70 for both. Never had any problems with Zinnie and even leaving them in a hot car was no problems. But a pair from firmoo I paid extra for the anti reflective coat and the lens coating melted in the car. So I'll never ever buy from them unless its a keep in the house pair. Wearing contacts and losing one on the beginning of a road trip where i was expected to drive -- it fell out my eye and ripped - it was old. And I didn't know or think about it and i had no back ups!! So i had to suffer the whole week. Migraines and all.

So in my luggage I keep a pair of contacts or glasses even when it's in storage. I keep a pair of glasses in my car in case of emergency. And firmoo completely failed me.

I've bought half a dozen or so from Zinnie. I call it Zin-knee-uh although it's probably just Zin-knee.

And noooo problems. Even with the advanced lenses which do work and are great.

Because I wear contacts, I don't want to invest in a good pair of glasses but my daughter solely wears glasses so I find it important to protect her eyes.

I get the anti-reflective coating -- the mid level due to at night lights. Without corrective lenses, lights look like Ferris wheels.

I literally can't see shit but 6 feet in front of me. I guess other people are not much different so. Like can y'all see a person 100 yards away? Like no? Right? I can see shadows and shit but I can't recognize people with my eyeballs until they're all up on me.

My uncle always says I'm gonna need a scope to shoot at night. -.-

I'm not quite Mr Magoo but I'm lucky as he is. Thankfully. (He's a cartoon, check him out. He's in YouTube)

And so my drastic apology for blatantly running around in sunglasses all rude and shit. Is done.

Also, while I'm talking about companies -- avoid PANTENE FOR COLOR TREATED HAIR. It strips rhe color out and is complete crap and the worst ever.

Herbal Essence and Loreal Elive are both fantastic to keep color treatments in.

I thought it was just our hair but ive been using PANTENE and my kid Herbal Essence and I see the difference.

Also I like my hair curly. And lantern curly didn't do shit. But Herbal Essence Twisted always has worked great. Not my personal favorite scent but tolerable.

Y'all what i need is a curly and color treated hair shampoo and conditioner at an affordable price. I've searched African American products and haven't found any with those labels. So Idk.

My scalp and hair is ultra dry due to scalp psoriasis and i can go a total 3 months of no washing without looking oily.

So i love African American products and buy them proudly in secret for myself! But i notice their bottles are smaller and more costly.

Except i found a leave in oil for only $3 which i use when i don't dye.

Foreign oils can strip hair color quite well as well as dandruff shampoo.

So I'm always cautious about leave in oils and lotions.

But PANTENE is a FAILURE.

Its my main switch. I use herbal essence and PANTENE and Loreal. Its a fact using the same conditioner and shampoo leaves a certain coating on the hair to cause it to be limp and flat and dull.

So it's always been recommended to use a clarifying shampoo and conditioner for a week then go back to the reg.

The same effect or nearly the same effecf is done by switching brands. So that's what I do.

PANTENE is now out of the equation.

Tio Nacho is a fantastic shampoo and conditioner. My daughter's hair was always unruly. Curly and just wild no matter what. And tio nacho is the only brand,to tame her to look like a human and not a wild lion. But I haven't found color protecting and it's $8 for only 12 ounces and so I find that expensive.

I buy the huge 27 ounces for $7. So.

But I would buy it for her. It helped calm the oily and wild mane.

My friend brushed her hair once and she was so surprised m she said that was like warm butter, lol. Because she always had wild corkscrew curls and some random straight ones she looked a wreck 24/7.

Truly I didn't mind I knew the truth. But tio Nacho has some miracle up in it. Swear.

PANTENE doesn't even have ordinary skills it claims to have m

So we may put Aussie in our loopm we use Tressemme when the cash flow is low.

I used to do live advertising and did the 3 minute Aussie miracle conditioner and that was always nice. The formula changed and it's not as wonderful as it used to be but its average. So i haven't had them in our loop.

Dove we don't like. Hers gets oily and crazy and i don't like the oil stimulation it causes. Idk maybe it's good but ... It makes me feel ick. Which is sad because I really wanted Dove to work.

PANTENE was my first "luxury" shampoo and conditioner i bought myself because i was raised on V05 and if I was lucky and Denise was nice, Suave. She literally bought the cheapest. And never bought extra conditioner and So i had to ration it. So my first self purchase on my own was PANTENE. But it is now a failure. -.- and lives are ruined and especially hair dos.

So now i used to buy my ex V05 ha!

And i have an emergency bottle of Tressemme 32 ounce under my bed for color treated. Conditioner.

We buy conditioner 4x more than shampoo. Because we coat it all --scalp to ends -- brush it. Then i rinse the heavy coat i soaked in while watching tv and smoking then I give it a light coat on the ends again and rinse.

Shampoo we just use one handful and not two or three and it foams up and so we don't need as much.

Like i use 2 - 3 pumps on my scalp of shampoo then one maybe two on the ends. The scalp i scrub the ends I rub.

Like now i have to dye again so I'll use a dandruff shampoo and I'll end up scrubbing all of my hair and use like 1/4 a 12 oz bottle. To get any deposits and leftover film and so on off all the hairs so they absorb the dye better. Then no conditioner. Or a light coat to detanglr and comb and rinse quickly without a deep soak. Then sometimes i gently apply shampoo again without a good scrub. Just run it through to remove the conditioner. But not to allow tangles.

Im not an expert or anything but hair care is serious around here and Idk why PANTENE is trying to destroy mine and succeeding.

I spend $50 every 2 months on just hair. For two.

One girl with a Mohawk and my long to the waist hair.

Two sides of her head are shaved every 6 weeks and she gets the same bottles as i do and then she's all "i need more" 0.o. Honestly she washes hers more often than i do.

We have our own buckets of shampoo and conditioner. Nathaniel either uses it or poisones it so we have our own large Easter buckets. And we store our towels in my room too. Then we have a 3rd bucket in case i buy in advance or like now give up on a bottle we were trying out. Save it. For days of emergency. Running out or so on

But we do borrow from each other if one or the other is low we take from each other to use.

We have different body soaps and different hair needs sometimes. Like i want curly and she's all nah. Or she has Tio Nacho.

We come from a 3 bathroom house so we're used to having our own product. Let me say it that way. But we always are good about sharing if necessary.

But she actually has more demands for bath stuff than I. So like her loofah and her body wash and all that isn't used by me and she knows its only all her Because I have my own bucket.

I cater to my kid. I Like it seperate too because her stuff is more expensive. $7 body wash and mine is $3 if i buy it. Otherwise i use shampoo. I do have hair in my armpits after all. And so i see hers and im all hmmm let me try this and yeah... "Idk how i used half a bottle in one bath" so it is more expensive!! So

While I'm buying 2x the shampoo and conditioner to supply 2 buckets -- in fact i am not spending more. If we shared the bottles as a person would expect, then we would go through them faster.

2 people in one bottle

Vs 2 people in 2 bottles.

So I have to purchase less often than if we shared but I have to purchase more bottles.

So in reality i pay the same price but the schedule and cost load is different.

Like if im out of conditioner, i know she will be at some point so i buy two bottles. And it waits until she needs it. Unless i need shampoo, too.

Then if she if she needs the shampoos then we buy all over again.

The cycle of life told in shampoo and conditioner.