October 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Buying lenses for your face shape not trends - and other do's and don'ts about your glasses.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you wear glasses even on only every once in
a while, don't take your whole life to learn this lesson.
Buy frames for your face shape, not for trends, not
based on what you think looks good on someone else. Okay,
I want to go here because I finally learned the lesson.
I have been wearing glasses on and off since I
(00:26):
was in high school, Murphy, and now I wear them
almost all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You used to wear your contacts a lot more. Yeah,
you don't like them as much.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I like touching my eyeballs. I don't have to, and
glasses have come a long way. They're fashionable and cute
and cool.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Contacts have too. Yeah, it's a personal.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Do you can sleep with them? Now?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Do you not? Like? Do you want me to wear?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh? You could wear whatever you want, you know, I'm
just saying your times where you know it's you know,
for me glasses. I don't want them on when I'm
taking pictures for you know, for example, because the glare
and that kind of thing before all right, Oh yeah,
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, I mean there are times anyway, This is about
wearing frames I was standing in a store the other
day and looking around, and I had just complimented the
girl I was checking out and her her glasses were
so cute on her face. They were clear, but they
were sort of cat eye and it looked so right
with her face. And she even said, yeah, I love it.
(01:24):
I just complimented them. She complimented mine, and we had
the whole discussion about you've got to learn to buy
them for your face shape, because you know, there are
a lot of glasses that I see, like the cat
eyes that she was wearing, would look funny on me.
But I've learned to do that. Sam, you recently bought
glasses and they're correct for your face shape. Someone help you.
(01:48):
I didn't say that, did someone help you buy them?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Kinda? I mean the person at the place.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Did it see they look good?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think they'll be reallyant. And I go with Murphy
when he's buying them and picking them out, and usually
you get almost the same sort of frame, which is
good because it looks correct on your face.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I like ten frames almost, you know, invisible.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know what's so funny is that I had my
idea when I went the other day to get a
couple of new frames, a new pair I had in
my mind what I wanted, and I found them, and
I found three or four examples and we put them
on my face and it just didn't work. And the
person helping me was like, yeah, it kind of closes
you in. I don't see anything but this frame. It
just overwhelmed my face. They were really bold, dark frames,
(02:29):
and they just overwhelmed me. I was lost. And it's
just a thing to remember for your face shape and
get some help with it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Those meta frames that are out now, the ray bands,
they look cool. I mean, we know some people that
have them. I've tried them on.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They're a classic shape.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
They are, but I just think you were just saying
they're too dark or there's something wrong with them.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
From my face, they overwhelmed your face.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, it's just it's like, well, all glasses.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The truth of the matter is if you wore them
every day, you would get used to them, something harsh, overwhelming,
and everyone around you would a would.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think that's why when people you know like trendy
and outlandish, it may not be a fit for your face,
but they pull it off.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Anybody that I've ever known that really goes there because
there it's their personality. So once they've had you know,
the outlandish frames or the trendy frames or whatever, that's
what they stick to. The I guess statement frames, the
kind that not everybody would wear every day, but they
can actually pull them off.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, it's fun. It's so much fun to me. I
know a lot of people feel like, oh, it's too
many choices, and I don't know, and you get nervous
about It's me, it's so fun because you have so
many choices, it becomes a part of your style, not
just functional. You know, a long time ago when we
were kids, you know, my brother had glasses and he
had a choice of like two frames and he didn't
(03:49):
love them, but he had to wear them to see
just like you, Murphy, right, Oh yeah, picture i've seen
of you as a kid, you had glasses.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, they were photogray lenses. Unfortunately, the kind that change
when you go outside and they get dark. Seems cool
and functional until you start taking school pictures in them.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, but I just got these that they offered
me there, Oh you could get these photo gray too,
And I was like, eh, I stopped in the picture
balloon in my head.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, No, that I really enjoy looking and noticing people
and the frames that they're wearing and that they choosing.
But anyway, another thing I wanted to tell you about
is the dues and don'ts of it. No one ever
discussed this with me until recently when I walked up
to get these these frames I'm wearing right now. They're
squared off on the top, which I really like because
it doesn't you can still see my eyebrows. You're supposed
(04:38):
to not let a frame compare to take away your eyebrows,
although some of them do. And if you're okay with it,
you know you do you. But I was walking up
and I was taking off the pair, the old pair,
and I was about took them off and I started
wiping them with my shirt, and he goes, don't do it,
don't do your shirt, don't use your shirt, And I
(05:01):
was like, oh, I was just kind of kind of
clean them up a little bit before handing them to
you or whatever. And you look into it. You're not
supposed to do that. You're not supposed to wipe it
with anything dry with your shirt.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It'll scratch it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Right. The right way to clean is actually with warm
water and a very mild soap. You know, I mean,
how not often that's happening.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, it's not convenient. You're not always going to have
mild soap and hot water nearby. You know, when you
need to see you need to see. You smudge them
and it's like you don't have anything else.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You're supposed to keep them in the case when you're
not using them. They're not supposed to be sitting around
the house in sixteen different places.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'll get them lost.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, you're not supposed to leave them in a hot car.
That includes sunglasses too. If you have prescription sunglasses, you
know where mine are. They're in the car because that's
where it's convenient for sunglasses in the car too.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They're not going to be in the sunshine.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Heat can damage it. And you know, learning all these
things the long and hard way. You're not supposed to
use household cleaners and window cleaners and anything harsh on
glasses on your frames because think about it, it's almost medical.
It's a prescription.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
See, I've used wind decks on glasses before.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Okay, he gus that too.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah. The only thing I've been told about that is
that if there are protective coatings that have been added
to those lenses to make it resistant. This, that and
the other. Those chemicals eat away at those protective coatings.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You're not supposed to use your breath.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I've done that a billion times. Hey, if you watch
enough movies.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Everybody does it. That's the way you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's like a myth. Isn't that crazy? You're not supposed
to use paper towels or even facial tissues which seem
really soft. You're supposed to use those those soft soft microfiber,
high quality microfiber. Like after you've watched with the warm water,
that's what you dry it off with. So if you
ever need to, if you don't have the hot water,
(06:56):
you know, get from the place where you bought your lenses,
get the spread and use a microfiber cloth.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
See mine came with the little cloth that comes in it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think that's what that is. That's micro that's the one.
If it comes with it, that's what you're you're supposed
to use.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Tough to keep up with those though they get lost. Yes,
that's why if this were a test, I would be
failing it right now. No, that's what the things that
you have mentioned, you know, out of ten of those,
I think I violate six or seven of them.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I know. That's why I wanted to talk about it.
If no one had ever told me. When I walked
up and took those old off to start trying on frames,
he goes, don't do that, don't use your shirt. I
felt like, Okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Right, it's a microfiber shirt.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But it's just maybe I've never really listened. Maybe I
have been told and educated on how to care for
these things that are so important, you know, to this
to being productive and seeing. Are you caring for them correctly? No,
I don't know if I've ever if I've just missed
the instructions, or maybe no one's ever broken it down.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean it's time for me to replace mine. I
only need them really for super distance, because I mean
up close, I'm good, but you know, driving I need
them and mine or I've had them for I guess
I've had these for about two years now, and they've
got a little scratches on the like in the center
that won't come out. I thought they were smudges, but
they're scratches.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Do you think they're scratches from the way you've been
cleaning them scratchy things.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think scratch there's scratches from either you know, being
inadvertently knocked down lens down on a tabletop, or maybe
I was putting two in a case at the same time.
Shouldn't do that. Well, you know, when you're traveling.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
People who work in the optical departments who are listening
to this are wringing.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, yeah, they're pointing, pointing in me and saying, he's
that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Anyway, So after you, I want to wrap up with this.
After you've done the mild soap and warm water or
cool water any kind, nothing too hot, you're supposed to
rinse it thoroughly, okay, and then you shake it off
before you dry it with the soft clean microfiber like
(09:09):
swift shake it off. That's the correct way. My next
question is because I bought a box of those kind
that you carry with you. It's looks like a little
wet wipe and it's a lens cleaner. That's what I've
been cleaning mine with. I care. I have six of
them in my purse right now. So the next time
I go to the optical department, I'm gonna say, hey,
(09:29):
what do you think about this and see if.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I get that's a waste of money.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I would think that those work. But they're because they're
they're not abrasive because they're in a protective pouch. When
you open each one, they probably have just enough moistureize
and they're not pure water, they're just enough.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They seem more abrasive though, than a microfiber cloth. They
seem like similar to the facial tissue or the paper towel.
That's why I'm curious about it. So I'm gonna ask,
and I'll let you guys know. Subscribe to the Murphy,
Sam and Jody podcast Free and Easy
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you wear glasses even on only every once in
a while, don't take your whole life to learn this lesson.
Buy frames for your face shape, not for trends, not
based on what you think looks good on someone else. Okay,
I want to go here because I finally learned the lesson.
I have been wearing glasses on and off since I
(00:26):
was in high school, Murphy, and now I wear them
almost all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You used to wear your contacts a lot more. Yeah,
you don't like them as much.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I like touching my eyeballs. I don't have to, and
glasses have come a long way. They're fashionable and cute
and cool.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Contacts have too. Yeah, it's a personal.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Do you can sleep with them? Now?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Do you not? Like? Do you want me to wear?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh? You could wear whatever you want, you know, I'm
just saying your times where you know it's you know,
for me glasses. I don't want them on when I'm
taking pictures for you know, for example, because the glare
and that kind of thing before all right, Oh yeah,
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, I mean there are times anyway, This is about
wearing frames I was standing in a store the other
day and looking around, and I had just complimented the
girl I was checking out and her her glasses were
so cute on her face. They were clear, but they
were sort of cat eye and it looked so right
with her face. And she even said, yeah, I love it.
(01:24):
I just complimented them. She complimented mine, and we had
the whole discussion about you've got to learn to buy
them for your face shape, because you know, there are
a lot of glasses that I see, like the cat
eyes that she was wearing, would look funny on me.
But I've learned to do that. Sam, you recently bought
glasses and they're correct for your face shape. Someone help you.
(01:48):
I didn't say that, did someone help you buy them?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Kinda? I mean the person at the place.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Did it see they look good?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think they'll be reallyant. And I go with Murphy
when he's buying them and picking them out, and usually
you get almost the same sort of frame, which is
good because it looks correct on your face.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I like ten frames almost, you know, invisible.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know what's so funny is that I had my
idea when I went the other day to get a
couple of new frames, a new pair I had in
my mind what I wanted, and I found them, and
I found three or four examples and we put them
on my face and it just didn't work. And the
person helping me was like, yeah, it kind of closes
you in. I don't see anything but this frame. It
just overwhelmed my face. They were really bold, dark frames,
(02:29):
and they just overwhelmed me. I was lost. And it's
just a thing to remember for your face shape and
get some help with it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Those meta frames that are out now, the ray bands,
they look cool. I mean, we know some people that
have them. I've tried them on.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They're a classic shape.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
They are, but I just think you were just saying
they're too dark or there's something wrong with them.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
From my face, they overwhelmed your face.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, it's just it's like, well, all glasses.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The truth of the matter is if you wore them
every day, you would get used to them, something harsh, overwhelming,
and everyone around you would a would.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think that's why when people you know like trendy
and outlandish, it may not be a fit for your face,
but they pull it off.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Anybody that I've ever known that really goes there because
there it's their personality. So once they've had you know,
the outlandish frames or the trendy frames or whatever, that's
what they stick to. The I guess statement frames, the
kind that not everybody would wear every day, but they
can actually pull them off.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, it's fun. It's so much fun to me. I
know a lot of people feel like, oh, it's too
many choices, and I don't know, and you get nervous
about It's me, it's so fun because you have so
many choices, it becomes a part of your style, not
just functional. You know, a long time ago when we
were kids, you know, my brother had glasses and he
had a choice of like two frames and he didn't
(03:49):
love them, but he had to wear them to see
just like you, Murphy, right, Oh yeah, picture i've seen
of you as a kid, you had glasses.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, they were photogray lenses. Unfortunately, the kind that change
when you go outside and they get dark. Seems cool
and functional until you start taking school pictures in them.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, but I just got these that they offered
me there, Oh you could get these photo gray too,
And I was like, eh, I stopped in the picture
balloon in my head.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, No, that I really enjoy looking and noticing people
and the frames that they're wearing and that they choosing.
But anyway, another thing I wanted to tell you about
is the dues and don'ts of it. No one ever
discussed this with me until recently when I walked up
to get these these frames I'm wearing right now. They're
squared off on the top, which I really like because
it doesn't you can still see my eyebrows. You're supposed
(04:38):
to not let a frame compare to take away your eyebrows,
although some of them do. And if you're okay with it,
you know you do you. But I was walking up
and I was taking off the pair, the old pair,
and I was about took them off and I started
wiping them with my shirt, and he goes, don't do it,
don't do your shirt, don't use your shirt, And I
(05:01):
was like, oh, I was just kind of kind of
clean them up a little bit before handing them to
you or whatever. And you look into it. You're not
supposed to do that. You're not supposed to wipe it
with anything dry with your shirt.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It'll scratch it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Right. The right way to clean is actually with warm
water and a very mild soap. You know, I mean,
how not often that's happening.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, it's not convenient. You're not always going to have
mild soap and hot water nearby. You know, when you
need to see you need to see. You smudge them
and it's like you don't have anything else.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You're supposed to keep them in the case when you're
not using them. They're not supposed to be sitting around
the house in sixteen different places.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'll get them lost.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, you're not supposed to leave them in a hot car.
That includes sunglasses too. If you have prescription sunglasses, you
know where mine are. They're in the car because that's
where it's convenient for sunglasses in the car too.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They're not going to be in the sunshine.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Heat can damage it. And you know, learning all these
things the long and hard way. You're not supposed to
use household cleaners and window cleaners and anything harsh on
glasses on your frames because think about it, it's almost medical.
It's a prescription.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
See, I've used wind decks on glasses before.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Okay, he gus that too.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah. The only thing I've been told about that is
that if there are protective coatings that have been added
to those lenses to make it resistant. This, that and
the other. Those chemicals eat away at those protective coatings.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You're not supposed to use your breath.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I've done that a billion times. Hey, if you watch
enough movies.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Everybody does it. That's the way you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's like a myth. Isn't that crazy? You're not supposed
to use paper towels or even facial tissues which seem
really soft. You're supposed to use those those soft soft microfiber,
high quality microfiber. Like after you've watched with the warm water,
that's what you dry it off with. So if you
ever need to, if you don't have the hot water,
(06:56):
you know, get from the place where you bought your lenses,
get the spread and use a microfiber cloth.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
See mine came with the little cloth that comes in it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think that's what that is. That's micro that's the one.
If it comes with it, that's what you're you're supposed
to use.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Tough to keep up with those though they get lost. Yes,
that's why if this were a test, I would be
failing it right now. No, that's what the things that
you have mentioned, you know, out of ten of those,
I think I violate six or seven of them.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I know. That's why I wanted to talk about it.
If no one had ever told me. When I walked
up and took those old off to start trying on frames,
he goes, don't do that, don't use your shirt. I
felt like, Okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Right, it's a microfiber shirt.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But it's just maybe I've never really listened. Maybe I
have been told and educated on how to care for
these things that are so important, you know, to this
to being productive and seeing. Are you caring for them correctly? No,
I don't know if I've ever if I've just missed
the instructions, or maybe no one's ever broken it down.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean it's time for me to replace mine. I
only need them really for super distance, because I mean
up close, I'm good, but you know, driving I need
them and mine or I've had them for I guess
I've had these for about two years now, and they've
got a little scratches on the like in the center
that won't come out. I thought they were smudges, but
they're scratches.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Do you think they're scratches from the way you've been
cleaning them scratchy things.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think scratch there's scratches from either you know, being
inadvertently knocked down lens down on a tabletop, or maybe
I was putting two in a case at the same time.
Shouldn't do that. Well, you know, when you're traveling.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
People who work in the optical departments who are listening
to this are wringing.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, yeah, they're pointing, pointing in me and saying, he's
that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Anyway, So after you, I want to wrap up with this.
After you've done the mild soap and warm water or
cool water any kind, nothing too hot, you're supposed to
rinse it thoroughly, okay, and then you shake it off
before you dry it with the soft clean microfiber like
(09:09):
swift shake it off. That's the correct way. My next
question is because I bought a box of those kind
that you carry with you. It's looks like a little
wet wipe and it's a lens cleaner. That's what I've
been cleaning mine with. I care. I have six of
them in my purse right now. So the next time
I go to the optical department, I'm gonna say, hey,
(09:29):
what do you think about this and see if.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I get that's a waste of money.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I would think that those work. But they're because they're
they're not abrasive because they're in a protective pouch. When
you open each one, they probably have just enough moistureize
and they're not pure water, they're just enough.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They seem more abrasive though, than a microfiber cloth. They
seem like similar to the facial tissue or the paper towel.
That's why I'm curious about it. So I'm gonna ask,
and I'll let you guys know. Subscribe to the Murphy,
Sam and Jody podcast Free and Easy
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