I totally swooned yesterday. It was so dramatic, and so mortifying. I ended up flat on my back in a Lenscrafters with my feet in the air.
And was I wearing a minidress?
You bet I was!
To give you the where & why, I was at the Fifth Avenue Lenscrafters to learn about their new Accufit digital measurement system. I also met with a doctor for an eye scan to find out if I still have corneal erosion issues (that’s my eyeball above – pretty, right?)…and it turns out that all is finally well, yay.
But it was during the eye exam that the swooning happened: it was something about the flipping back and forth between blurry and clear screens. I’ve only almost-fainted once before (a couple of months ago, actually, while at a restaurant with Francesca – apparently it’s something having to do with blood pressure changes during pregnancy), and if you’ve never experienced this, let me tell you: whoa. You get all overheated, then chilled, then sweaty and nauseous, and then you very much almost go careening to the floor. Fortunately, I was in the presence of an actual doctor at the time, who immediately had me on the ground with my feet up, and I was completely back to normal in seconds. All smiles.
But jeez.
Here’s part of the Accufit system: they take photos of you in all your different selections so you can look at them side-by-side rather than staring into a mirror while you put on pair after pair and say “This one? This one? How about this one?” to the person you’ve brought with you as a critic (or the sales associate). And then they use all sorts of fancy technology to make sure the lenses are precisely fitted to your face (with results five times more accurate than traditional manual measurements), and show you all the options (anti-reflective coating, polarized lenses, etc) rather than just telling you about them.
Neat.
If you’ve been wearing glasses for awhile, like me, you remember a time (maybe seven years ago?) when prescription sunglasses were not particularly easy to come by. You had to choose from a limited selection of not-so-cute frames (certainly no Chanels or Dolces were available for prescription lenses); if you wanted cute sunglasses, you had to pair them with contacts. Not so anymore, as it turns out: you can put prescription lenses into just about any frame (or go for my personal favorite look, turning fun sunglass frames into unique regular glasses).
Above, some of the lovely sunglasses I swooned (hee) over. Top to bottom: Dolce, Chanel, Dolce, Prada.
And Chanel needs to just stop it with these. I mean, there are bows on the arms. Too cute.
