Bright Eyes, Burning Like an Attention Seeker

Hello interweb,

We're all still sniffling along down my end, but on the up & up, so hopefully tomorrow I'll be back to my relatively healthy self.

I'm sure you've all gathered by now that I'm a girly girl. I like make-up, pink things, super high heels, anything even slightly sparkly... you get the idea. But if there's one thing that lets me down (actually two things if you include my complete ambivalence towards handbags), it's my sunglasses collection. But this is due to my skin type (my mum's ginger so I react to the sun the same way as the vamps from True Blood) and the boy I tend to hang around with (army rugby type). So my holidays tend to include hiring a quad bike and roaming around doing outdoorsy things. Therefore, however much I may love them, the beautiful oversized round beauties that every other girl wears are just not suitable for me. Though if I did, these would be the ones I want:

Source I think I love them mainly for the Tiffany Blue legs

I basically spend my holidays living in my skiing sunnies (proper sporty types), and when I am going round a town or something I tend to go for cheapo ones. Enter exhibit A:

See quite normal, barring the purple & leopard print. I would have happily worn these all holiday, but the boy took them (he shares my belief on blending into surroundings), so I was forced to wear these beauties for a month:

Now, whilst I don't mind wearing heart shaped glasses, if you wear them day in day out you do get heart shaped tan lines, and I looked ridiculous. 

So, now to the point. I needed new sunglasses, that had enough protection for skiing, and yet still looked interesting enough to be worn for the rest of the year. Enter Oakleys.

Yes I do realise I am very late to the game but Oakley's have done a fun limited edition their classic Frogskin shape, called Blacklights. We have been eyeing these up for ages, but seeing as the boy just bought some sunglasses recently we just couldn't justify the £90 price tag. But hello 2-for-1 offer so we went for it. Disclaimer: The colours of these glasses are extremely hard to capture in pictures, but it's the effort that matters. Right?

As you can hopefully tell the lenses are super reflective (you can't see my eye through them) and very gold in colour. The frames are neon pink and the legs are neon yellow. They are proper raving glasses! But what's even more awesome is that the legs detach and you can change them with other coloured legs from other glasses. Stupidly enough for some reason Oakley aren't selling the legs separately (they really have missed a trick there). But I am constantly interchanging them with the boys glasses. He got the ones with a bright orange lens & orange frames.

I absolutely love these sunglasses (and really want to get them in every colour). They provide great sun protection (well duh they are Oakleys afterall) and they just demand attention, wherever you are (I am constantly getting radoms coming up for conversations, and have been bought 3 drinks becasue of them - I've spend alot of time in beer gardens recently). But the next ones one my wish list are:

They don't look like much, but the lenses are the most gorgeous pinky purple colour, and my resistance is waning as we speak. Sigh.

So all in all, I have to say, in the most objective way: Get them before they are discontintued. They are amazing.

What colours are you favourite? Where do you get your sunglasses from

Kat x

Photos my own or from stated sources