Sunglass Lenses
Here’s the lowdown on lens types, tints and materials.
Lens Types
Mirrored
Mirrored lenses are exactly what they sound like—lenses with a reflective, mirror-like coating. Aside from being strikingly bold, they're extremely opaque. Choose reflective sunglasses in a wide range of colors or go full-on metallic with bronze, gold or silver reflectors.
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Polarized
Polarized lenses are designed to help block undesirable light and glare by blocking vertical light rays with horizontal micro-crystals. This can cut down on unnecessary eyestrain.
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Photochromic
Photochromic lenses adjust their darkness based on UV exposure. In a brighter setting, the lenses get darker to block out more light. Keep in mind, this transition takes a bit of time. Also, the photochromic process doesn’t work inside cars, since the windshield and windows already block out UV rays (which trigger the lenses to change).
Anti-Reflective
The last thing you want is to be distracted by reflections and glare—especially when driving or doing sports. Anti-reflective technology helps reduce the bounce-back of light through the lens and back into the eyes.
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Gradient
Gradient lenses are tinted heavily at the top and gradually fade to a lighter tone toward the bottom. This allows for a more comfortable area of vision on the bottom half since it’s not as dark as the top.
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Interchangeable
Change it up! Swap out different lenses and lens types with frames featuring interchangeable lenses.
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Lens Tints & Coatings
Gray & Green
These neutral tint colors help to lower the intensity of light without altering colors, allowing for crisper contrast. They’re great for activities that require viewing things in their true color, like driving.
Brown
Brown-tinted lenses help to sharpen the view for the wearer by cutting out brown tones, which allows for increased contrast and depth perception.
Yellow/Gold/Amber
Yellow-toned tints can help to increase brightness in low-light or overcast settings, but don’t necessarily protect you against high exposure to light.
Rose
Rose-tinted lenses block out blue tones, which result in a clearer low-light view. This color can be worn for many activities and for long periods of time.
Blue & Purple
While these colors don’t offer any light-enhancing properties, blue and purple lenses are make super-fun fashion statements.
Mirrored or Flash Coating
Mirrored or reflective-coated lenses help to greatly reduce glare and are perfect for those who are super sensitive to bright light. Oftentimes mirrored coatings can darken your view and are used over lighter-tint lenses to balance this out.