Michael Jackson – a life through Sunglasses

It has now been almost 2 weeks since the king of pop, Michael Jackson, passed away at his Los Angeles home reportedly from a cardiac arrest, and as a tribute to his life and career spanning  over 40 years with over 750 million albums sold and countless awards including 13 grammy’s, we at SelectSpecs.com have decided to celebrate his life by looking back at some of the sunglasses (and glasses) he wore throughout his career.

Michael Jackson’ Sunglasses

Jackson has regularly been seen wearing...

Even Justin Timberlake needs to wear Glasses

That’s right, even stardom and celebrity status doesn’t stop the fact that your vision deteriorates over time!  This week Justin Timberlake revealed, after being spotted wearing glasses recently, that his glasses are not just worn as a fashion accessory but as a necessity for his poor eyesight.  Whilst on the US late night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Justin said to Jimmy “I can see you, but I can’t see any of you (the audience)”.  Justin Timberlake says that he is short sighted (Myopia) but has embraced wearing his glasses....

A new range of Glasses from SelectSpecs.com

We have just added a new collection of prescription glasses to our Budget Glasses range, these affordable glasses are all competitively priced between £15.95 and £19.95 including prescription lenses.

Savannah Prescription Glasses

Our Savannah range of glasses are available in both full rimmed and semi-rimless designs in both plastic and metal materials with the addition of spring hinges.  As with all our Prescription Glasses, our prices include FREE standard or thin and light prescription lenses, UV protection, Scratch Resistance, and Anti-Reflection, which makes this...

Vision Aid Overseas and Donating Glasses to Charity

The past couple of months has been a very busy time for us not only because of the increasing number of orders but also from the increase in incoming mail from generous members of the public sending in their glasses to us to donate to Vision Aid Overseas.  So we wanted to take this opportunity to write a blog post to say Thank you for your generous donations! A large box of donated glasses was dispatched to Vision Aid Overseas just a few weeks ago and we are...

Have Your Say: Prescription and Lens Option Selection

Want to get involved in how SelectSpecs.com develop their website?  Well here’s your chance to put your comments forward on our new Prescription and Lens Options system, read on…

We have been having a bit of a debate here over the past few months about how we can develop our Prescription and Lens Options system to make the process of buying prescription glasses easier for our customers.  General consensus is that we want to move away from the single page format we currently use to a more...

Buying Glasses Online, a SelectSpecs.com Guide

Are you a new customer looking to buy glasses online for the first time? Not sure how to get your prescription from your optician or don’t quite understand the layout or terminology used?  Well SelectSpecs.com can help you.

We have recently written a short guide to buying your glasses online that will hopefully help those that are perhaps a little uncomfortable with buying glasses from the Internet.  Our short guide covers the following areas:

• Buying Glasses Online, is it Safe?
• Getting and Understanding

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