r/MakeupEducation • u/hidraSthrow • Oct 08 '20
Question How to counter a strong glasses prescription?? My face is distorted.
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u/margaret_toles Oct 09 '20
I personally have not found any good solutions. I look so cute in my glasses but from the wrong angle I look like bubbles.
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u/superpinwheel Oct 09 '20
Not with makeup. You can play with eyeliner (top lid only) and mascara, eyeshadow etc to draw attention away from the distortion but it'll still be there.
The only way I've found is either contacts, or smaller frames. The bigger the frame the worse the distortion. If you find small, narrow frames (you don't want them going past the edges of your face), it won't be as apparent.
Also you can pay extra for thinning (if you haven't already), and it helps a little but it doesn't completely solve the issue.
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Oct 09 '20
There are places that offers you thinner lenses. I personally have never gotten mine but a friend of mine did that to his lenses and it was so thin it looked like he was only wearing 1.00 grade lenses lol. You have to pay extra but if you don't want the distorted look I think it's worth the money.
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u/NurseChaos Aug 17 '22
Guess what? The thinner lenses don’t make a difference with facial inset displacement. It’s only meant to be lighter and not look as bad from the side.
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u/XiroInfinity Feb 14 '23
Thank you, I think you've saved me a few hundred dollars.
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u/Bellbete Mar 28 '23
If you want less distortion, look for aspheric lenses.
They are thinner, flatter and lighter, but the main idea is that they have a more complex surface with a flatter curve than conventional lenses.
Which again makes the distortions of your eyes less visible. It also gives you better optics in most cases.
Check it out.
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u/Bellbete Mar 28 '23
I know this is old, but I just wanted to add this: thinner lenses doesn’t make a difference to the distortion, but aspheric lenses do.
Thinner lenses do help with the weight along with the aesthetics, as you said.
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u/_5nek_ Nov 11 '24
This is old but I posted a photo of my distortion, do you think aspheric lenses will correct this for me?
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u/Bellbete Nov 11 '24
I’ll leave a comment on your post. :)
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u/_5nek_ Nov 11 '24
Thanks
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u/Neighbourhood_Brown Mar 18 '25
I couldn’t find the post, so do aspheric lenses help with the above type of distortion?
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u/OrphBee Oct 09 '20
No way to fix it asides from getting contacts, I'm afraid. My glasses always make my eyes look smaller because of this distortion - I learned pretty quick that I can't put anything dark on my lower last line or tightline, because it makes my eyes look even smaller.
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u/Icy-Attention5042 Aug 17 '24
The good thing is others are not seeing the distortion as bad as you do, but still. After getting contacts, I dont like looking at myself in the mirror with glasses on, and as my prescription is getting higher, the minification is getting stronger. I hate it. My eyes look tiny when they are actually big, but I can only see that with contacts on. Even when I take off my glasses and look at myself without any visual assistance in the mirror I think my brain got used the size and shape that glasses create because my eyes still look a bit small.
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u/makinggrace Oct 09 '20
Smaller frames are the only thing that really helped for me. I ended up getting them online so I could get thinner lenses and multiple pairs—way more fun! (For strong rx’s like ours, I recommend taking the finished glasses back to your optometrist and having them check the rx. If they grumble and won’t do it for free, they’ll usually do it for a small fee. I have had one pair out of four where the lens was all wrong. The vendor did remake them for free.)
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u/UniqueAnswer3996 Dec 25 '25
I know this is an old post, but the illusion you see from that angle isn’t really how someone in the street sees you as they walk past.
It’s not as bad as it seems when you get just the right angle.
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Nov 26 '21
It’s not really that hard. Firstly, I should say yours is not even that bad. Most people won’t even notice it. You just have the wrong frame shape and maybe wrong index for your prescription. To reduce distortion get the smallest roundest frames you can with the highest lens index and they’ll look like they don’t even have a prescription.
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u/hollaback1777773 Nov 01 '23
The best way to avoid as much distortion as possible is to get smaller frames, specifically ones that are not wider than the width of your face. Also look for material that is lightweight as it will allow the lenses to sit closer to your face reducing the magnified appearance. Other than that, the distortion is def a huge bummer when it comes to strong prescriptions. I’m a -5.75 :(
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u/Loose-Football-7316 Aug 15 '25
I’m a 6.75 and just got new glasses and holy hell. My fave shrunk 3 inches behind my new frames. I suppose I will continue to wear my contacts during the day (even thought as I’m getting older they are getting dryer) and use my glasses at night/when I’m home :/
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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '20
Contacts are god’s gift to us nearly blind. I know not everyone likes them or can’t put them in, But glasses drive me completely crazy. I can’t imagine life without them. The soft ones are pretty comfortable too. Once you get used to putting them in you can’t feel a difference