Remember when you were a kid, sitting crossed legged on the floor watching your favorite TV show, and your mom or dad would walk in and ruin the vibe by saying something like, “you’ll get square eyes if you watch any more screens.” Well, mom and dad were wrong. What they should have warned you about instead was that nasty thing called blue light.
Yepp. Blue light is one of those almost unavoidable things we all have to think about these days. Whether you’re trying to reassess your WFH life, squeezing in an extra episode of Netflix’s finest on your commute to work, or popping your phone in the middle of ring light as you talk to your followers, blue light is everywhere. Laptops, smartphones, TVs, iPads, everything.
Basically, we’re exposing our eyes to more blue light than ever before. Don’t believe us, go n’ check your phone usage report… mmmm hmmm. That’s why blue light blocking glasses are the peeper-protecting accessory you need in your life starting yesterday.
But in case you still need a little more convincing before you hit the “checkout” button on those BB glasses, here’s everything you need to know about blue light and how blue light glasses will change your life.
What da heck is Blue Light?
Blue light is a very short wavelength found at the far end of the light spectrum that produces a much higher amount of energy. This makes blue light advantageous during daytime but harmful after the sun drops below the horizon. In fact, scientists have suggested that too much exposure to this high energy light can lead to serious long-term damage to the retina’s light-sensitive cells.
And that’s not all. This blue light can also disrupt your natural circadian rhythms (translation: your sleep pattern) by stimulating the brain at night, reducing the amount of melatonin your body produces and thus leaving you with a pretty sucky night’s sleep.
How do Blue Light Glasses Work?
Our blue light blockers are fitted with lenses that have been designed to filter out certain light waves emitted by both the sun (this big ball of flaming gas kicks out a ton of blue light) and whatever digital device you stare at: phones, laptops, tablets, LED bulbs etc. But here’s the real kicker: according to a bunch of white lab-coat wearing scientists, limiting your exposure to blue light by just 20%, you can enjoy a better night’s sleep, reduce the amount of migraines you get, experience way less eye strain and prevent that potentially long-term retinal damage we mentioned above. Fist bump.
The Badass Benefits of BB Glasses
Way less eye strain: The biggest benefit of popping on a pair of blue light blocking glasses is to protect your precious peepers against the nasty effects of blue light. That means you can scroll, game, work, stream, and chat for longer without having to worry about painful eye strain, puffy eyes, redness, dryness, tears dripping down your cheeks, blurry vision or headaches.
Protect your eye muscles: Blue light isn’t all bad, but when an excessive amount gets through the natural filters of our eyes and into the retina – whoa – that can cause your muscles to degenerate as you get older. We’re talking about vision loss. Luckily, our blue light glasses are designed to block out between 50-100% of the blue light spectrum to keep your eyes happy, healthy and protected.
Get way better Zzz’s: The reason blue light is especially bad after sunset is because it messes with our natural melatonin production; the hormone responsible for regulating your sleep cycle. So whether you’re binging on Outer Banks before bed or scrolling through our TikTok feed in bed, staring at a screen will interfere with your sleep pattern and make falling asleep even harder than climbing the 14 Peaks in 7 months. Unless you’re rocking a pair of our blue lights, that is.
No more migraines: Remember the last time you had an ocular migraine where you felt a searing pain behind one of your eyes and it felt like a flashing light was inside your brain – that was caused by muscular contractions in the blood vessels in your eyes. And guess what caused that? Yepp. Excessive blue light. You get the point, right.
Save the night owls: Because blue light blocking glasses are most effective after sunset, they’re ideal for anyone that’s still enjoying some screen time deep into the night. We’re talking about night shift workers, nurses, students putting in a graveyard shift for them A grades, gamers, movie marathon addicts and influencers of every level. Simply buy yourself those tortoiseshell Blue Light glasses you’ve had in your basket for the last year and stop worrying about eye strain, you up-all-nighter.
Al fresco screen time: When we designed our Blue Light glasses, we decided to come up with a solution for all those sun-worshippers that want to stare at their screens in the sun. That’s why we developed our OneLens technology with photochromic lenses that darken to a sunglasses tint when exposed to sunlight and return to a clear state when you head back indoors. So whether you want to do some (urgh) work, edit your hiking video, make a backyard movie theatre, like that hot influencer’s posts or just double-tap on our latest IG post, our Transitional Blue Lights were made for seriously sunny days.
Time to Put The Fun in Functional!
We get it: blue light glasses have a practical role to play. But that doesn’t mean practical can’t be playful or stylish or packed full of personality. After all, fashion can be functional too. That’s why Humps Optics have created a range of epic unisex styles that are designed to effectively block out blue light and make you look epic every time you pop them on your eyes. From seriously chic half-rim frames to classic round frames, and everything in between, we’ve got a range of timeless trendsetters that will put a swag in your step as well as some protection on your peepers.
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