Last week, G and I went for a mostly impromptu traipse around on a quest to find some new glasses frames for me. This is to add to the quest from nearly a year ago, when Decay did the honours of taking the pics.

I'm going to make it a little easier on everyone, as G and I went to every single glasses place in The Glen, my shortlist has 9, my potential sunglasses list has 3, and then there's the 11 that got left out.

I have no information on brands, prices, or actual locations of the frames beyond what can be figured out from the background of the pics. I think I tried on things with prices ranging from $190.00 including lenses, to $450.00 frame only. My current pair was $700.00 including lenses, and I've had them for 5 years. I figure if I'm going to have to wear glasses, I might as well get a pair I like! Pics supplied by Felix the Sony Ericsson Z1010, not by Pocky, which would be DK's phone of same make. I apologise for the completely strange expressions on my face (; G and I were rambling on about completely random things while she took pics of the frames so I could have a look at them on me.

I appear to be bemused by something in this pic, but I think the frames are a little wide on me, although for wide frames they aren't doing too badly. I think they were supposed to be a browny black colour, kind of like the dark patches of a tortoiseshell colour.

I guess this continues on with the geeky glasses thing. The shape is kind of similar to the pair I currently wear, but the frame is plastic.

Yay! Go with the bags under the eyes look! You can't really tell from the pic, but there are stripey things happening across the frame. I think they were bluey-grey in colour. It'd be one way for me to get away with wearing darker heavier frames?

Again with plastic frames, stripiness and weird facial expressions.

This taken from the side, so you might be able to see that while the front of the frames is some olivey-green thing, the insides are some sort of lemony cream colour.

This pair is ok. They'd probably also work ok as a pair of sunglasses too. I'm not trying to look like Lee Lin Chin (although she's not wearing glasses in the promo shot for Fashionista ... she was known to wear some pretty out there frames while she was presenting news!).

I like the shape of this pair, I actually think they're the same shape as the previous pair. I liked the colour of this pair when it was sitting on display, more than when it was on me - I think it's too pale for me.

This pair are also a bit pale. I think they came in other colours, but I can't remember!

And now for some really strange expressions. All of these frames I kind of think they'll work better as sunglasses than as actual every day glasses on me. For some, they're a little wide on my face, or the actual lens area is bigger than I'd like. That sort of thing would actually be useful in sunglasses though, seeing as they are supposed to be there to block the brightness of that sun thingy.

These look a little chunky on me.

These were nice, a bit wide for me to wear as glasses every day, the frame colour would also work itself nicely into lens colour for sunglasses. I am NOT getting pink, or purple tinted lenses! I have been there and I have done that and I assure you that the colour was not intentional!

These had kewl arms, not that you can see them in a front-on pic. Again, too wide, but would work as sunnies.

There is another trip to Chadstone at some stage - yet more glasses to look at. I'll make a decision after Christmas, or something. Of the shortlist, there's probably only 3 pairs I'd think of getting, and of the sunglasses shortlist, maybe 1, really! None of them are *that* pair of glasses I've been looking for. Shopping for glasses for me is like shopping for shoes for me - I can see the shape of the frame, or shoe, in my head, but they don't actually exist in real life, and my drawing/describing skills aren't up to showing what it is I want to see. Someone really has to invent a mind camera or something for the artistically challenged, so these designs don't just swim about in people's heads unable to be articulated.