Thursday, January 19, 2012

My glasses slip down my nose

If you wear glasses, then no doubt you'vre said the above title to yourself many times. Too often to count. Too often than your care to remember to because in this day and age of advanced technology, iPhones, the Internet, why can't anyone do something about falling glasses???

There are many problems caused by falling glasses namely:

  1. You don't see well
  2. You suffer from low self-esteem because you see yourself as nerdy
  3. You feel uncomfortable

Well here's a solution.

It's called Keepons eyeglass retainers. Yes, the term eyeglass retainer doesn't really explain what it is. How's this name...Keepons anti-slip eyeglass attachments. A little better. Basically Keepons are small pieces of transparent engineered rubber which slide onto the temples of your glasses. They sit there and stop your glass from slipping by creating traction and balancing out the front heavy aspect of your glass lens.

Here's some reasons you might find Keepons useful:


  1. Keepons are light and compact making them really comfortable to wear
  2. They get the job done because they're made tear resistant rubber, these retainers will last forever
  3. Keepons eyeglass retainers are perfect for students and professionals. Why? No one wants to be seen wearing a eyeglass retainer strap while attending classes. And as for straps in the workplace, that's like wearing sandals with a business suit.
  4. They stop your glasses from sliding even if you have oily skin
  5. If you have a flat nose and the bridge of your glasses keep sliding then Keepons will hold up your glasses from the rear
  6. You won't have to push up your spectacles every few minutes. It helps you reclaim your life.
  7. They're great for chefs. Keep your hands on the cooking instead of trying to...keep looking.
  8. There are many different style of Keepons eyeglass retainers for different style glasses, and different style heads.
  9. They're made of rubber that stretches to fit even wide temples.
  10. Your eyeglasses won't slide even if you're sweaty.

Now picture this.

In school, you were always the skinny kid. Picked on, overlooked, never the kid chosen. But in entering adulthood, perhaps call it late blooming, you re-examined the things that caused you anxiety as a teenager and revisited them. Especially your relationship to your body.

You joined a gym recently. Actually it wasn't intentional. You were having lunch with a co-worker and on the way back to the office, a pretty young woman approached you and suggested that the both of you join their local gym. They were running a promotion, buy one gym membership get another one free. And they would throw in a new gym bag. You didn't jump on the offer right away, but that afternoon you thought about how in school, it was the jocks that got the girls. You imagined yourself bigger, stronger, and more confident, and a broad smile crept upon your face.

























So you send an inter-company email to your buddy suggesting you join up together. Agreed. On the weekend, you take a drive to your local sports store and pick up a pair of Nikes, something basic which costs you around $80, nothing extravagant, and a couple pair of knee-length gym shorts. You already have plenty of old rock concert tee shirts from your college days, so no need to buy news.

The first day at the gym, things goes well. The membership comes with a fitness appraisal and you find that you're in pretty good shape. Mostly because you don't smoke and only occassionally have a drink, like at the annual Christmas dinner. So three days a week, after work in hit the gym. Benchpresses, shoulder presses, upright rows, and it's always the same: your glasses keep slipping down your nose.

Why? You're sweaty and moving in a jerky manner. So in the middle of set of bicep curls, you put down your dumbbells and again, push up your glasses, again and again, and like Pavlov's dog, working out becomes conditioned with falling glasses, and soon you don't want to go anymore because it's a pain. Even though you paid for a year, you abandon your grand plans of muscular domination after only 3 months.

If you had Keepons eyeglass retainers, your life would be one big happy.

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