Looking for make-up glasses

[susie d]

I used to have great close vision until I had lasix eye surgery so I could throw away my glasses. Now I have to use reading glasses for close work including putting on makeup. That is a real pain and I am trying to find makeup glasses where one lens flips out of the way so you can put on eye makeup easier. I have seen them in the past, but now that I need them they are nowhere to be found. I have a lighted magnifying makeup mirror, but still need something extra. The only other solution I have thought about is to buy two pair of cheap reading glasses and poke out the opposite lens in each pair. Anyone have a solution and/or what do you do. The obvious answer is to have someone do it for you, but I haven't found her yet. Thanks.

[SherriePall]

I've been looking for myself for a while. Searches bring up few results and they run about $80 for real elaborate systems. I have checked some stores such as Sally's Beauty and they send you to some other stores which don't have them either. So, everyone out there, help Susie in her search.

[Sharon]

I just did a search and came up with quite a number of sources. The following is but one:

http://www.eyeglasses.com/makeup_glasses_eyewear/

[Calliope]

And if anyone ever finds a pair of those X-Ray Specs, I've been looking for years.

[Tracy_Victoria]

And if anyone ever finds a pair of those X-Ray Specs, I've been looking for years.

Specially if they work!

[randi_789]

Why not go to the local drugstore, buy two pair of the real inexpensive reading glasses and modify each pair so that you can do one eye at a time. I am sure it can be done. Just thinking out loud.

[GG Vanya]

Here's a pair on ebay for 20.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-0-MAGNIFIER-MA...QQcmdZViewItem

[susie d]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't realize these were so expensive. May go for the ones on ebay even though I don't look good in zebra stripes. I may poke my eye out when freaked out by the stripes!

[Jasmine Ellis]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't realize these were so expensive. May go for the ones on ebay even though I don't look good in zebra stripes. I may poke my eye out when freaked out by the stripes!

[Jillian310]

My sympathy for this dilemma. I have a catarac in my left eye, therefore when I put eye make up on and have to close one eye then the other, I do ok with the left eye, but when I close the right, everything is really blurry and distorted. The result ~ sometimes my right eye looks like I was drunk whe I applied make up! I will get the surgery this winter. Que sera.