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Disclaimer: I received a free pair of prescription glasses from Firmoo in exchange for an honest review. As always, my thoughts + opinions are mine and mine alone!

So…I have a story for you.

Back when I was but a wee little child, my older brother (hi Sam!) told me that I would gain magical powers if I stared at the sun.

Before you get super pissed at him on my behalf (thanks for coming to my defense, friends!), it wasn’t because he was intentionally trying to be a dick. He genuinely believed this too, so we actually used to stare at the sun together.

Yeah, don’t do that. I have zero magical powers to speak of. (Evidently, I wanted them way more than he did, because my vision is much, much worse than his.)

I did not gain teleportation, telekinesis, or the ability to manipulate time.

But I do have astigmatism (mostly in the left eyeball) and really crappy vision! :'(

I hate the way I look in glasses, so I got contacts in 7th grade and since then, unless you were a family member, nooo one ever saw me in glasses. Ever. Glasses are not something I’d ever wear for fun, or for fashion. (Is it weird that I was completely okay with dancing in a bikini top + pareo in front of a couple hundred people, but not so much about being seen in glasses?)

In more recent years, this select population of family-members-only expanded to very close friends and people I felt supersuper comfortable with, and while I was studying for boards last June, I gave zero shits craps about who saw me because I was essentially spending a billion hours each week studying in the catacombs. Ain’t nobody got time to care about appearance.

Today, I’m gonna change that allll up and actually post a picture of me wearing glasses on the internets. (No way. :O!)

P’Muffin’s not lookin’ too happy. Scroll down to see her patience wearing thinner and thinner! :O

However, in an effort to make my contacts last longer (guess who lost her health insurance under her mom due to a birthday? :'( ), I’ve been switching over to glasses whenever I get home.

Betsy over at The Everyday Warrior connected me with the super-nice people at Firmoo.com, and I was given a free pair of prescription glasses in exchange for an honest review. I’d been thinking of getting another pair of prescription glasses anyway, so this worked out perfectly!

I managed to snag a copy of my prescription, as well as my PD (pupillary distance) from my parental units. (Thank you, technology!)

One thing I’m usually wary of = buying things when I can’t try them on, particularly when it’s with glasses.(It is absolutely disastrous with jeans because I do squats.)

As a not-so-fashionable individual, I’ve never actually figured out what frames work with my face, so I loved their Virtual Look Viewer. It was a little hard to find a picture that matched up perfectly, but we’ll go with it:

I actually really liked the pair on the right, but was worried I wouldn’t in real life, because I tend to prefer smaller frames.

I ended up not choosing the Blue/Tortoise ones because I decided to be practical (I know, I know). I went for a more neutral color (tortoiseshell, which coincidentally matches both my foster kitty and my cat back at home!) frame that I could wear to work without feeling like I was trying to draw attention to myself.

You can find the specifications on each pair of glasses, and find out everything from suggested pupillary distance and lens width/height to frame style.

Pros

• Customer service is absolutely wonderful. I really felt like Firmoo genuinely wanted to help me find a pair of glasses that I really liked.
• Quick shipping!
• Affordable prices. They have frequent discounts, and free shipping on $39+!
• Lots of customization options (e.g. lens coatings, color [for sunglasses!], + thickness)
• The Virtual Look Viewer feature is rather nifty, and give you a pretty good idea of what the glasses will look like on you.
• They come with a hard case, a soft case, and a cleaning cloth.

Cons

Honestly, the only downsides I could really think of were just a matter of personal preference and the fact that I am a total Scrooge when it comes to spending money on pretty much anything (student loans will do that to you):

• I couldn’t find small frames that I really liked, but like I said, I’m extraordinarily picky when it comes to glasses.
• I’d prefer thinner lenses. (I know I have terrible vision though, and it generally costs a lot more at my optometrist’s place to get em’ thinner so I don’t look quite as blind as I actually am.) You can pay $10-66 to thin em’ down, but I wanted to find out the quality on the glasses before shelling out the money on doing so. (If you recall my crippling student debt of $200k and counting, you can probably understand. Every penny saved counts. ;_; )

If you are looking for new prescription glasses and want to try ordering through Firmoo.com, they’re currently offering new users 50% off your first pair of frames! If you are unlike me and do in fact wear glasses for fashion, those are available too!

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Okay, I’m done messin’ around. If you want to get 50% off any set of frames on the site, get your discount here!

• Can you come up with a caption for what Princess Muffin (my foster kitty) must be thinking?
• Do you like to camwhore with your pet? I’m not much for selfies, but if cute animals are involved, I’m all for em’!
• Do you wear glasses?
• Do you know how to tell whether your face shape is compatible with different lens-frames?