Shades: Do Name Brands Protect Your Eyes Better?

Dahlings, I just heard something terribly shocking: costly sunglasses do not protect your eyes better. Gasp! I had a convo with a friend about this at an outdoor festival a couple of months back. We were perusing a booth of sunglasses and having a ball trying each and every one of them on. The vendor told us they were $5 each. We both turned our nose up and thought oh, well these cheapie things won't do. Both of us agreed that because they were so cheap, they probably didn't offer the necessary protection needed from the sun. This week while getting ready for work I had the Today Show on in the background.They featured a report on costly designer sunglasses and whether they offered better protection over non-designer shades. And it turns out as long as you have UVA/UVB protection, that's all you need. In fact most sunglasses ( Oakley, Ray-Ban, Chanel etc.)  are made in the same factories. So what are you paying for when you buy an exorbitantly over priced pair of sunglasses? You got it; the marketing and branding of course. So don't feel bad about your cheapies as long as you got that UVA/UVB protection label, you're solid. Check out the video below for much more on how we have been bamboozled!

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