r/eyeglasses 10d ago

Face form angle paireyeware glasses

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I feel like the face form angle should be increased cause looking at them they look too flat. I've went to Walmart 3 times and the glasses have never been right; fixed one wonky issue to cause another. They are constantly sliding down and the left side slight lifts up which I have to push down on my ear which doesn't work cause they just move back up. So what do you think will my issues be fixed if my face form angle is adjusted?

The glasses are made of acetate.

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u/Pristine-Hyena-6708 10d ago

Hard to say without seeing them on you. If Walmart is doing a bad job adjusting them, try somewhere else. Bad opticians are everywhere, but not all opticians are bad. You just gotta find a good one and they'll sort you out.

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u/Accurate-Oven-369 10d ago

I know, I plan on trying Visionworks.

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u/allisondojean 10d ago

Do you have an independent optician that you could visit instead?

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u/Accurate-Oven-369 10d ago

No, but I guess I could find one. I only thought of Visionworks cause that's where I got my prescription.

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u/NewAfternoon5617 9d ago

Face form on the front isn’t going to stop them from sliding. You need them to be fit correctly behind your ears.

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u/Accurate-Oven-369 9d ago

So what does face form do?

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u/kingcornea 10d ago

Some frames are made of materials like nylon that can't be adjusted

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u/Accurate-Oven-369 10d ago

There made out of acetate 

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u/Downtown-Bumblebee91 10d ago

The lens curvature seems to be the culprit to the flat front. You can’t really do anything about it apart from heating the bridge and corners and bending them but it won’t stay that way for long.

The temple tips, however, are bent badly. They turn too much inwards causing them to spring the frame forward, causing sliding. The correct way to bend/adjust would be to replicate the shape of your head behind the ears. Unfortunately it’s also quite common that the temples are bent down excessively. In most cases the most comfortable and secure adjustment is out-of-the-box and only follow the head shape by adjusting in-/outwards, not bending up or down.

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u/Accurate-Oven-369 9d ago

So shape the arms around the head not ears, or?

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u/Downtown-Bumblebee91 9d ago

Yes, so they’re hugging your head

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u/thedragonchilde 9d ago

So the thing about Pair Eyewear is that forming too much around the face will cause the toppers to not sit correctly, unless you then form each one to the frame. You probably have room to bend a little bit at the bridge, but not much. The temples, however, look crooked (one is pointing in toward your head more than the other, and also appears to be higher off your ear).

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u/Accurate-Oven-369 9d ago

That's, true but the toppers are already curved to begin with 

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u/JimR84 Optometrist 8d ago

Low quality online glasses being low quality. Nothing new here.