A rounded chin and forehead; your face appears longer than wide and your forehead is wider than your jaw.

The oval face is considered to be the ideal shape because of its balanced proportions. To keep the oval's natural balance, look for eyeglass frames that are as wide as (or wider than) the broadest part of the face, or walnut-shaped frames that are not too deep or too narrow .

Consider most shapes of frames.

A long face with a square chin

The oblong face is longer than it is wide and has a long straight cheek line and sometimes a longish nose. To make the face appear shorter and more balanced, try frames that have a top-to-bottom depth, decorative or contrasting temples that add width to the face or a low bridge to shorten the nose

Consider large square frames

A broad forehead with tapering width down to a very narrow rounded chin.
To minimize the width of the top of the face, try frames that are wider at the bottom, very light colours and materials, and rimless frame styles (which have a light, airy effect because the lenses are simply held in place to the temples by a few screws).

Consider small square or rounded frames

A broad forehead with a long jaw-line and a square chin.

A square face has a strong jaw line and a broad forehead, plus the width and length are in the same proportions. To make the square face look longer and soften the angles, try narrow frame styles, frames that have more width than depth and narrow ovals.

Consider oval and round style frames

A narrow forehead with wide cheekbones and a narrow chin. Diamond-shaped faces are narrow at the eye line and jaw line, and cheekbones are often high and dramatic. This is the rarest face shape. To highlight the eyes and bring out the cheekbones, try frames that have detailing or distinctive brow lines, or try rimless frames or oval and cat-eye shapes

Consider wider, bigger styles

A circular face, usually with fuller cheeks and a rounded chin.

A round face has curvilinear lines with the width and length in the same proportions and no angles. To make the face appear thinner and longer, try angular narrow eyeglass frames to lengthen the face, a clear bridge that widens the eyes and frames that are wider than they are deep, such as a rectangular shape.

Consider more rectangular and wider styles

A narrow forehead that widens at the cheek and chin areas. To add width and emphasize the narrow upper third of the face,

Consider frames that are heavily accented with colour and detailing on the top half or cat-eye shapes

For most people the standard fit should be fine.

If you know the size of your frame the options for each style of frame are available from the drop down list. The dimension details are shown on the image on the left. All sizes are in mm.

If you don’t know the size of the frame you require here are some guidelines

Don’t choose a frame that is too large, visual distortion and glare can occur. If your frame is too small, you limit your peripheral vision.

Generally, the frames shouldn't be wider than the widest part of your face, with the exception of frames for oval faces, which can be a little wider. When you put on a pair of glasses, your eyes should look out of the centre of each lens. The frames should not be so tight that they pinch your nose or leave red marks. Conversely, they should not be so loose that they slide down your nose. If they have nose pads, try adjusting them very gently

Tip: The top of the frames should not be above the eyebrow line and the bottom shouldn't touch your cheeks, so they don't irritate your skin. Finally, they should be comfortable around your ears. If your frames become uncomfortable over time, pop into a spectacle shop and ask them to help you adjust them. Usually, adjustments are free. You can try to adjust frames yourself but be very careful because they break easily if you force them.

Tip 1 : Lens height should be tall enough if bifocals and progressive lenses are ordered, while a small height is used for children.

It is possible for you to have a frame that has a 52-lens size and another frame with a 48 and they both fit perfectly. These numbers are not precise, they are meant as a guide only. In fact many frame companies now only manufacture in one or two sizes.

All of our metal frames are manufactured with the highest quality materials and finishes and our frames have adjustable nose pads and bend-able temples, so they are simple for you or an Optician to adjust!

The contemporary design, durable lightweight construction and high lacquer finish of our plastic frames produce a stylish and comfortable fit.

Tip 2 : To see how wide your face is, just look in the mirror with an ordinary ruler resting on the top of your nose and measure the total width of your face.

You will also need to find your pupilary distance (P.D.) by measuring the distance, in millimetres, between the centres of your two pupils (black spots in the centre of your eye). The number should be somewhere between 40-90 millimetres. Enter the P.D on the prescription page.

Each frame is equipped with built-in spring hinges to ensure proper alignment in addition to fully adjustable soft nose pads for maximum comfort.

Don’t choose a funky comical pair of glasses if you are only buying one pair! Chances are, you'll probably also need to wear them to school, church, interviews, on the train and busses and every day to work. You know best what your everyday style is: Smart business or jeans and T-shirts, etc so choose something that matches most of your moods.

Construction of frame varies with different materials.

You'll need to select plastic, metal or a combination of both. For folk who are tough on glasses and don’t care for them as they should consider metal frames because they usually last longer, particularly stainless steel and titanium, which is also nice if you think you'll want to keep the frames a long time and just get new lenses when needed. Because most metal frames have adjustable nose pads, they work well for people whose noses are too small or large for plastic frames. If you're allergic to any metals, but have your heart set on a metal frame, make sure to get one that's hypoallergenic. Also, you might want to take into account the kind of jewellery you like to wear: if you wear a lot of gold, you might not want silver-coloured frames and vice versa.

Plastic frames tend to be less expensive and feel lighter on your face. They usually need less maintenance than metal ones, but certain types of plastic contract and expand with temperature changes and require more frequent adjustments.

Do you tend to accidentally break things a lot? If so, you might want to look into flexible hinges, which are more indestructible than regular hinges. For example, you can bend the temples (the side "arms") out more than you can with regular hinges.
Alloy, stainless steel, memory titanium, and memory plastic.

Alloy

The most popular
Most of the metal eyeglass frames, including most of the very expensive designer brand frames, sold in the world are made of what is called nickel silver alloy in the trade. Oddly enough nickel silver usually has very little if no silver at all but is an alloy of mostly copper, nickel, zinc, and iron. This fairly durable metal holds its shape well, and can be plated easily to a wide variety of colours, it has relatively low material cost and is easy to manufacture, hence its popularity for eyeglass frames. A downside is that about 10% of the population has at least some minor allergy to nickel, but since these frames are almost always colour electroplated, they shield and protect the nickel from touching the skin. However, the parts that do rest on the skin, like the nose pads and temple tips are usually of plastic anyway.
Our Cosmo range of nickel silver frames have high quality electroplated finish and have hypoallergenic soft plastic nose pads and plastic temple tips for maximum comfort.

Our Cosmo range of stainless steel frames, compared to our alloy frames, are much lighter, and far more durable, stronger, flexible, and corrosion resistant. These frames are a steel and chrome alloy and unlike nickel silver alloy are hypoallergenic. Stainless steel is harder to manufacture into eyeglass frames than alloy and hence these frames are more expensive so they tend to be used less often.

Memory titanium frames

The Cosmo range of memory titanium frames use some of the very latest SMA (Shape Memory Alloy) technology and are extremely flexible, light, and durable. Memory titanium is a special titanium alloy belonging to the SMA family. Although SMA was discovered more than 70 years ago the modern SMA mixes are quite extraordinary.

Memory plastic frames

Our memory plastic frames uses the latest plastic technology to produce a very light, extremely flexible frame with a strong shape memory similar to metal alloy SMA's. This material, unlike most plastics, does not stretch or shrink when heated, and the colour is impregnated into the resin so it will not scratch, chip, or wear off.

Eyeglass frames should complement your features and colouring.
The frame's bridge (that part of the frame that joins the lenses in the front) can affect how your eyes and nose look. A thin or clear bridge gives the illusion of width to eyes that are close-set, while a coloured bridge will make wide-set eyes appear closer together while a low bridge will make your nose appear shorter.

Frame colour should also be used to complement your natural colouring, including skin tone; skin colour (ranging from fair to dark) and hair colours.

Pink - If you are very fair, burn before you tan, and your skin has pink or porcelain under tones you will look nice with faint-coloured frames - or for a clean and simple style, try rimless frames. Try camel, khaki, gold, copper, peach, orange, coral, off-white, fire-engine red, warm blue and blond tortoise

Yellow – If you are Caucasian, Asian or Light Mixed and have beige or yellow undertones you will look nice with gold, copper , or silver coloured frames

Olive – If you are Mediterranean, Latino, a Fair-skinned African, or dark mixed-race, then you will look nice with light-coloured metals in blue-grey and browns .

Brown – If you are African, deep complexioned Indian or any other dark skin colour then you will look nice with most metallic frames in shades of purple, black, rose-brown, blue-grey, plum, magenta, pink, jade, blue and semi-amber and dark tortoise

Hair and Eye colours are usually a secondary element in determining frame colours but they are important so consider all combinations as a whole.