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Bug-eye glasses and beautiful face

Oversized sunglasses were photographed on hundreds of celebrities this summer, and the trend continues in the colder seasons. No matter how chilly it is, the sun will always shine at some point or another. You must prepare your eyes for the glare. Oversized sunglasses serve the practical purpose of protecting your eyes from most angles, but they also make a powerful fashion statement. They tend to bring out the youth in people who wear them, almost like they’re playing dress-up with daddy’s sunglasses.

Bug-eye glasses are so called because of their round giantesse. They seem to dwarf even the largest faces and swallow the eye sockets whole. No, they don’t sound that attractive in print and yet they retain their popularity. It is easy to see why celebrities find them attractive – they make it easier to roam incognito. Bug-eye glasses hide a large part of a celebrity’s face and hence enable him or her to travel about unseen by the public or paparazzi. The trend simply extended to regular people, who have long been imitating the fashion choices and miss-choices of celebrities.

Some of the most famous and respected clothing designers in the world now have their own lines of spectacles and sunglasses. You can find bug-eye versions of these glasses in almost any designer’s line. However the style itself is not new. Bug-eye glasses were once very popular during the heavily mod days of the 1960’s. Fashionable actresses, models, and pop stars wore them even then to disguise themselves or lend mystery to their appearance. When I think of these sunglasses I often picture a blond bombshell like Brigitte Bardot or a more modern version of this archetype like Pamela Anderson strutting along the beach at Cannes. The size and shape of the glasses seem to make a statement of star quality and inapproachability that many women covet.

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