If you’re anything like me, you’re on screens approximately 25 hours a day, eight days a week, for work and for fun. But no matter how updated my eyeglass prescription is, it never seems enough to stave off the minor headaches that I believe come from too much screen time during long work-from-home days. That realization led me down an entirely different eyewear path: subscription blue light glasses. And with the circular light blue Gunnar glasses I found quickly became my most beloved accessory.
Something about the chic blue color and the double bridged nose, paired with the yellowish lenses, just gives “nerd but in a hot way,” if you ask me. These frames fit my face perfectly and add a pleasant, light sepia tone to the world. And, while you can buy them as-is on Amazon, you can also add your own prescription to the glasses via the Gunnar website.
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Popular eyewear companies like Zenni and Warby Parker have been selling blue light blocking lenses for quite a while now, with claims that the filtering out of blue light leads to improved sleep quality and a lessening of screen-overuse headaches. While the science community is still not unanimous about this technology being truly helpful, with not enough research behind the effectiveness, I can personally attest that I don’t get headaches whenever I wear my blue light glasses.
In fact, these glasses are so effective that I can tell I’ve upgraded all of my other lenses with blue light filters. If you want to follow suit but don’t love the look of my Gunnar pair, I’ve included a few other options ahead that might suit you.