Confused about the various types of lenses available? Polarised, bifocal, UV400 protection, what does it all mean? This area of our site attempts to answer those questions for you. Simply click on a question below to be taken to the answer. As a guide we have listed here, which options are compatible with each other:

Super Thin lenses come with a FREE Anti-Reflective coating. NOT compatible with UV400 Protection or tints.
Polarising lenses come with FREE UV400 protection. NOT compatible with Anti-Reflective or tints.
Transition lenses do not require UV400 Protection. NOT compatible with tints.

1. Lenses: What does "frame only", "standard" or "bifocal" mean?
2. Super Thin Lenses: What are they?
3. Anti-Reflective: What does this mean?
4. UV400 Protection: What does this mean?
5. Polarised: What does this mean?
6. Transition: What does this mean?
7. Tints: What kind of tints are there?
8. Scratch Resistant: What does this mean?

1. Lenses: What does "frame only", "standard" or "bifocal" mean?
"Frame Only" means that you will receive simply the frame with a clear glass lens and are ideal if you already have your own prescription lenses. "Standard" means we will fit standard vision prescription lenses to your frames. We will need your prescription in order to do this. "Bifocal" means we will fit bifocal lenses to your frames. Bifocal lenses are the same as standard lenses but the lower part of the glasses are for focusing on close objects for reading etc. and the upper part is for focusing on distant objects etc.

2. Super Thin Lenses: What are they?
These lenses are the same as standard or bifocal lenses but are much thinner and therefore lighter. Our super thin lenses come with a free anti-reflective coating.

3. Anti-Reflective: What does this mean?
This coating removes reflections from the surface of the glasses and therefore improves vision. That also means people looking at you will see your eyes and not a reflection of the light.

4. UV400 Protection: What does this mean?
This almost invisible coating absorbs 100% of harmful UV light and therefore protects your eyes. Think of it as sun block for your eyes!

5. Polarised: What does this mean?
Polarised lenses are ideal for outdoor use and/or driving as they stop light reflections from entering the eye from different angles. Polarised lenses include free UV protection and are slightly tinted.

6. Transition: What does this mean?
Transition lenses react to sunlight so the brighter the sunlight, the darker the lens becomes! Comes with free UV Protection.

7. Tints: What kind of tints are there?
A normal tint is a constant colour over the entire lenses and turn your glasses into sunglasses. A graduated tint starts out darker at the top and becomes clear at the bottom of the lenses. No UV protection is added on any of these options though, so we recommend you add that too.

8. Scratch Resistant: What does this mean?
We add a special coating which helps to protect your lenses from being accidentally scratched.