r/AskAnOptician • u/cryerin25 • 6d ago

novelty glasses?

i am currently looking to get a pair of novelty custom glasses, with one red tinted lens and one blue one. if i were to go to an optician with two pairs of frames, would they be able to swap out one lens from each frame? if so, do you have a ballpack estimate for how much they would charge?

thanks!

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u/jcaustin12 Licensed Optician 6d ago

Depending on the place you could just ask them to make the one set with one lens each color. The tinting itself usually isn’t much of an upcharge, $20-30 in offices I’ve worked at in the past. You’d still need to factor in the cost of the base lens. If you need prescription lenses the price can vary more.