How to hide a gnarly case of pink eye....

After a week of being away from home and working late in the office, I was looking forward to a weekend of spending time with people that I care about. But, alas, not to be. Friday night brought a disgusting case of pink eye. I had always thought that it was an imaginary disease of childhood, but apparently not. My right eye is now swollen and gross, so, any trips into public today will require the most glamourous of oversized sunglasses (I need not expose the world to my cyclopse image). That or a pirate eye patch.

A couple of things about wearing sunglasses to hide an eye problem: They need to be really really oversized and preferably have a bit of wrap-around to them as well. A flat frame means that people will be able to see your eye from the side, so aim for a curvature to the frame or wide temples. You also need to be able to see indoors if you are going to keep your grotesqueness hidden from the world. That means that dark, dark grey/black lenses are not the way to go unless you want to be walking into everything, giving you a black eye to boot. Try a paler brown, preferably with a gradient to the lens tint so that you can see out of the bottom if you need to.

These are the frames I wish I owned this morning:

Oliver People's Athena Sunglasses:

Tom Ford's Marissa Sunglasses:

Gucci's Rimless Shield Logo Sunglasses:

Eye drops, here I come.