My Lens - Great Value Way to Get Your Contact Lenses

A great way to manage your contact lenses and get great value is committing to a year’s supply. This can be a one off order - easy. Or if you prefer, create an automatic payment weekly, fortnightly or monthly to suit.

We look forward to supplying you with lenses. When you order your lenses from us here’s what happens:

• You get accuracy assured - the exact lenses you need for your eyes

• Flexible purchase and payments options to save you up to 25%

• You get free replacements of torn or faulty lenses

• You get guaranteed genuine lenses - our secure supply chain means there is no risk of counterfeit lenses

• Free courier delivery in NZ

• You are ordering from trained eyecare experts, choosing products we understand and know to work

• If your vision changes- no problem, we'll swap any unopened boxes for your new ones

• You're supporting support a local business and local jobs in your community - thank you.

Temperatures too hot for your lenses to handle

Most spectacle lenses are made of plastic. If you went back 30 years, most were then glass. Why the switch? Plastic is a lot lighter, which translates into more comfortable glasses to wear.

Technology continues to improve lens performance with stronger and more durable surface coatings, like Hoya Diamond Finish Anti Reflection Coating, and Hoya Super Hard. Likewise the photochromic performance continues to develop lenses which react faster, both to darken and return to clear, with more colour options. Higher index plastics deliver lighter-weight thinner lenses with improved optical clarity, such as Hoya Nulux Index lenses.

One important consideration for these lenses is watching the temperature. Lens coatings can deteriorate -craze and delaminate - if exposed to heat and to big changes in temperature.

Most lenses can handle 80 degrees, some even hotter. The lenses will be fine with a gradual increase in temperature. Time here is extremely important. If you went from a freezer then directly into a sauna and had a huge increase in temperature in a few seconds then the lenses and coatings are at risk of damage. The same as if you took a glass out of a freezer and then pour boiling water over it, the glass will shatter.

A good rule is if it’s too hot for a person, then it’s too hot for your glasses. Especially important - in a lot of cars there is a glasses compartment above your head near the mirror and interior lights. That is honestly the worst possible place to keep your glasses in summer. It’s right up against the metal roof so the intense heat can, and most likely will damage the lenses.

Read more on every day lens care.

Contact Lenses Delivered Direct to Your Door

Just a reminder that if you are ordering contact lenses, we can, in most cases, arrange to have these delivered directly to your home (or work). Easy. Let us know you need lenses and we will take care of arrangements.

If you find it easier to have your lenses sent automatically to you check out our My Lens program.

What we are wearing - Claire's new glasses

Claire has chosen a Face a Face frame, acetate with a detailed pattern.

Frame: Face a Face Bahia 4 Col 4321

Lens: Hoya Mystyle Profile Detail progressive, 1.67, clear lens with a Diamond Finish anti-reflection coating.

Another acetate (plastic) frame - is this your preference now?

The fit of the Face a Face frame is exceptionally comfortable - this is the 4th pair of these I have had. I do have a very light metal frame (Blackfin) but the acetates are fun.

How do you find the vision?

This new prescription is an improvement for reading - which is appreciated. I am staying with the same progressive design, Detail because I like the clarity. I switch between different pairs of glasses and don’t notice a difference apart from the close range - clearer with the more recent prescriptions. The field of view is easy, and if I am gardening on a steep bank everything seems good.

With all your glasses how do you chose what to wear?

Having different frames is definitely a fun part of being an optometrist. Mostly I coordinate with whatever I am wearing for work. On a day off it is usually less curated! Days off I choose glasses with photochromic lenses - way more comfortable and suits being outside.

NZ Retinal Screening AI to launch

Auckland ophthalmologist Dr David Squirrell is leading the charge to save the eyesight of New Zealand diabetes patients through the development of AI technology.

Along with his team at Toku Eyes, Dr Squirrell has developed artificial intelligence software to help screen for diabetic retinopathy. This is a vital step to preventing visual impairment and irreversible sight loss.

Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working age adults, but 40 percent of diabetic patients in New Zealand are still not being screened for diabetic retinopathy.

Toku Eyes hopes to encourage more people to get screened by making the process faster, more accessible, and even more accurate.

Listen to this RNZ interview when Kathryn Ryan speaks with Dr David Squirrell, chair of the Northern Region Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Governance Committee. 

Anna Joplin - Optometrist

Optometrist Anna Joplin will be a familiar face to many of you. Anna is in her third year working alongside Claire and Sally. We asked her to tell us more about herself and her career in optometry.

“My name is Anna, I am Welsh, coming from the fabulous rugby mad capital- Cardiff.

At the age of 7 I was the youngest person my inspirational Optometrist fitted with contact lenses. I loved my appointments and soon became fascinated with eyes. By the age of 10 I had decided I wanted to be an Optometrist.

Soon after qualifying I came to NZ. It was meant to be for an OE, but I still haven't left.

My passion is the patient journey which is so important, for people to feel at ease and informed so they make good choices about their health.”

Anna, Sally and Claire are available for online bookings.

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