Keeping Your Eyeglasses On Are Easier Than You Think

Ever go to sleep with a mosquito in the room? Aside from keeping you up all night by buzzing in your ear, you also wake up in the morning itchy and covered with bites all over your feet and hands.

Such a small thing can be such a living nightmare.

In the same way, have your glasses ever slipped down your nose?

Like hundreds of millions of eyeglass wearers around the world, you've probably experienced your fair share of this problem.

Falling glasses affect your seeing, makes you look clumsy, and contributes to a sense 0f all-pervasive yet low threshold stress that keeps up constantly in a state of unrelaxedness.

Kind of like having a runny nose.

Whereas with a runny nose though, you could just blow your nose into a tissue, what can you do about slipping glasses?

You've tried taking them back to the eyeglass store where you got them, but that hasn't helped at all. The eye doctor takes some special pliers and twists the eyeglass frame temples and seems to make adjustments which look very scientific and profound but at the end of the day, the minute your forehead is slightly moist from sweating, down go your slipping glasses.

It's enough to make you want to cry.

But don't cry, there's an inexpensive yet highly effective solution for stopping slipping glasses.

It's called Keepons.

As you can see in the photo above, Keepons are small accessories which slide onto your eyeglass temple frames. There they stay and do a wonderful job of preventing the forward and downward movement of your glasses down your nose. They behave like comfortable hooks which wrap around your ears.

Keepons eyewear retainers are useful in that:

1. They free your hands so you can get back to your work, in that you don't need to pushup your glasses every 30 seconds. In fact, you'll never need to push up your glasses again.
   
2. They are made of silicone which will slightly stretch to fit different temple widths.
   
3. In case, the temple tips are too wide, you can detach the temples and thread them through the thin end.
4. Even in a sauna, your eyeglasses won't slip down your nose.
   
5. Great self-esteem builder.
   
6. Helps kids with glasses from being bullied.
   
7. They keep sunglasses from slipping too.
   
8. They are a better alternative to eyeglass straps which are prone to catching or being pulled upon.
   
9. They are made of allergy-free rubber and are really comfortable to wear.
   
10. They are so inexpensive and affordable, for the price of a coffee and a cookie you can stop a nagging problem and change your life for the better forever.
    

Put yourself into this picture:

You've been preparing for this moment for about two weeks. You've written a short essay that you hope will be interesting and delightful. The points are well-illustrated with one or two examples of students whose lives you've changed. You've polished the speech for style and proper diction. You've rehearsed what you want to say and how to say it, even spending hours in front of the mirror, practicing how to smile and how to look, to get it just right.

It's not that you're vain, you just don't like looking stupid or foolish in front of others. No one does. In fact, you've been preparing for this moment for over 30 years. Ever since you decided in high school that you wanted to be a teacher, you've pursued that goal passionately for the last 20 years. And so when you received the national best teacher award for outstanding teaching in English, you felt justified in your choice. Not for the award itself, it's just an object, but of what it symbolizes, that your efforts are appreciated and it motivates you to keep trying, to give it your best.

You think back to all the students you've helped, the individual cases of kids with such low self-esteem that without some act of encouragement they would've have fallen into an endless loop of self-destruction and self-loathing. But you showed them that if they were patient with themselves, applied themselves with detachment, that within a very short time they would see that there were indeed competent and that their low self-esteem was unjustified. They just needed someone to show how special they really are.

So you raise your hands and accept the award from the nice man from the national education committee. You push your glasses up and turn to the camera. The bright lights and your anxiety has caused you to perspire but you don't want people to see you wiping sweat from your forehead and face at such an important moment. This should be a happy moment for you, but you can't help seeing yourself in such an awkward pose. You push your glasses up again and that's the photo that's captured of you. Like a cruel joke from some magazine editor. Like how the stereotype is true, that academics are aloof and unattractive. You place the award on your shelf and soon it's covered with dust.

Life could be so much better if you just spent the couple of dollars and got yourself some Keepons eyeglass retainers.