Stand in front of a life size mirror and look directly at the tip of your nose. The positioning of your pupils inside your eye sockets is your Natural Optical Center. The Natural Optical Center is the point that gives your brain a perfectly clear and most complete picture of the object you are looking at. So this is the easy part.

It gets tricky when you have to align your Natural Optical Center with the Optical Center of your prescription lenses you are about to order.

Things get a little bit more out of hand when you throw in the eyeglasses frames with unlimited variety of shapes and sizes. 

But don’t lose your determination yet, let’s stay focused on finding that perfect bargain online on your prescription eyeglasses. Let us help you solve this in three simple steps:

1)    Find your Natural Optical Center;

2)    Put on the frame of your choice; and make a circle on the frame exactly at the point where your pupils are positioned;

3)    Grab the type of lenses you would like in your prescription eyeglasses; find the Optical Center of these lenses and align this with the circle you had marked on your frame; JOB DONE!!

Yes we remember you are purchasing from an unregulated, non-licensed online retailer, but are your eyes well served with this?

Think of your two weeks of photography lessons that helped you operate your $2,000 Nikon Camera with manual focus. You zoomed in and out to align the Optical Centers of all the layers of lenses to get that perfectly clear and most complete picture. Licensed Opticians do multiple years of schooling to learn how to align your Natural Optical Center with that of your prescription lenses so you can get that perfectly clear and most complete picture.

Still determined to buy online? Just so you know, Optical Center is not the only thing your opticians measure. Subscribe to our blog to get all the information you need to make an educated decision.