Many spectacle wearers enjoy the convenience of photochromic lenses that become darker outdoor. However, sometimes even photochromic lenses are not ideal.
- Photochromic lenses don’t get very dark in our warm climate, even with very bright sunlight
- Photochromic lenses don’t darken inside the car
- The spectacles that we wear everyday might be not appropriate for some activities like outdoor sports
- We just enjoy wearing fashionable sunglasses
For driving, for time outdoors and for the pleasure of a good-looking pair, prescription sunglasses in Singapore do something an everyday spectacle cannot: they are made as sunglasses from the start, in the colour and depth of tint you choose.
At Visio Optical, we make lenses for sunglasses with your own prescription. Prescription sunglasses are available for all corrective prescriptions, also with bifocals and progressive lenses (multifocal lenses).
Prescription sunglass lens options
1-tone lenses
These are the most common sunglass lenses, they never fail!
Whether you want dark colors for bright sunlight, or light colors for afternoon walks and as fashion statement. We can make any color as dark or as light as you like.
Gradient lenses
Very popular and very fashionable. Gradient lenses are tinted from the top down, so that the top of the lens is darkest. Get the cool look that gradient sunglass lenses can give you.
Choose the color and how deep you want the gradient, we’ll make it.
2-color lenses
Double the colors, double the flavor. Not your usual sunglass lenses!
Choose the color that you want on the top, and another color for the bottom. Very special, quite a statement.
Mirror lenses
Mirror sunglass lenses have a reflective optical coating, like a colorful mirror.
Mirror lenses are darker, and they are especially useful for conditions of bright sunlight, sand, water, snow, and high altitudes.
Curved and unusual frame shapes
Most optical shops are unable to fit sunglass lenses on spectacles that are very curve, or with odd shapes. At Visio Optical, we use the most advanced lens cutting technology, and we are not limited by constraints in the frame shape.
Choosing a frame for prescription sunglasses
A sunglass frame carries more lens than a spectacle does, so proportion leads: depth through the lens, width across the temples, how the front sits on the bridge. Acetate, titanium and fine metal each hang differently on a face, and the same shape can read classic or sharp depending on the colour.
Visio Optical is an independent, fitting-led boutique optician in Holland Village. The frames here come from small independent houses — Coco Song, ic! berlin, Lafont, Anne et Valentin, Vanni — alongside Lindberg, for which we are an authorised dealer. They are chosen because they are beautiful and made well, in small considered quantities.
The best way to choose a frame is to try it in person. Photos are useful for inspiration, but fit, proportion and comfort can only really be judged when you put a frame on. If there is already a frame you like, tinted prescription lenses can be fitted to it — see lens replacement for how that works.