Nerds! Free glasses. Free money.

My Life List

Thanks to Rivet & Sway for sponsoring this post, and allowing me to provide fodder for girls-in-glasses fetishists the world over.

I got my first pair of glasses in college. They were tiny, wire-rimmed specs that made me feel like a genius, and look like an awkwardly feminine James Joyce.

I’ve been through dozens of pairs since then, but a few years ago, I realized I’d been wearing the same glasses for about seven years. I got so many compliments when I first purchased them; it poisoned my brain.

Then one day it clicked. Glasses are an accessory, and are subject to trends. My once-chic glasses had essentially become a pair of Capri pants for my face. “Do you have some gladiator sandals I could balance on my nose? Thanks.”

So I decided to change out my glasses more frequently, which brings us to Rivet & Sway. They’re like Zappos for sexy librarians. You choose three frames you want to try, and they ship them to you free so you can try them on, take a bunch of selfies, and ask your friends if they make you look stupid. Like so:

PUNCHLINE, NEAPOLITAN

I love these. Are they too “seventh-grade art teacher who used to over-explain about how it’s not a big deal to eat paste”?


I think they’re like when you ask your favorite barista with the sleeve tats where you can get a pair of her glasses, and she says, “Oh. My aunt was a rocket scientist. I got these out of her old jewelry box when I was visiting her in New Mexico.” And then you shake your fist at the sky.

TUSK, GALAPAGOS GREEN

Whoa, so cute — cat eye update. I think these might be cuter in Black and White. Still, these glasses say “I know you can do better if you just apply yourself.”


Or maybe I’m dubious about your excuse for missing the midterm.

POETIC LICENSE, TORTOISE

“Hi. I’m looking for an Awkward Architect boyfriend. In the meantime, I’ll be writing about my feelings in a Moleskine.”

Too demure?


What if I make duckface for sexiness? Yeah. Nailed it.

OK, share with me your thoughts. Is one of these the one, or should I try on more? Let me know in comments, and while you’re at it…

CONTEST!
If you’d like to enter to win your own pair of Rivet & Sway glasses, and you happen to be a U.S. resident, please do this:

1. Choose which pair of glasses you want.
2. Leave a comment here with the name and color of glasses you covet.
3. If you can’t decide — because you are not some sort of eyewear wizard and you want to see them on your face (or you just want more chances to win) — you may leave up to three comments without being considered a cheater.
4. Check back here Wednesday, when I will announce the randomly selected winner. And then champagne.

As part of their Find Your Joy Campaign, Rivet & Sway is also gifting a $500 goal grant to one Go Mighty member. So be sure to check that out too.

On Monday we’ll talk about the next thing I’m crossing off my Life List with Rivet & Sway’s help. I hope it’s something you’ve thought about doing too, and we can roll up our sleeves together.

Now choose your glasses smart people, that you may easily locate other smart people and mate with them. See you Monday.

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293 thoughts on “Nerds! Free glasses. Free money.”

  1. I don’t wear glasses and so don’t need these – but – I think you look cutest in #1 and #3 and should avoid #2 at all costs.

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  3. I am terrible at picking frames out by myself, so this would be much easier than dragging friends to the office. if I had to pick based on the site alone, I would choose Pinstripe!

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  7. My husband keeps bugging me to get new glasses, but I can’t be bothered to go to the shop. I’ll see if I can talk him into this service. In the meantime, I’m seriously drawn to the core strength pair – pretty much right up my style. I’d want to try them in tortoise because I always get black glasses and I really need to change it up. I’m in a glasses rut!!! (come on, lucky 7!)

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  8. I think Punchline looks great on you. I would like them, too, but R&S doesn’t list them as good for a rectangle-head like me.

    I think I’d go with Petite Allegro in Spicy Tortoise.

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  10. Meet Cute in Savannah is good, too.

    I wonder if Punchline could work on me, though. It looks so good on you!

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  14. I love the poetic license, tortoise. Looks awesome on you! I hope it looks good on me too when I win this awesome contest!!!!!

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  15. I’m about to get new glasses, and I’m all over the Neopolitan Punchline, which sounds like the next big pseudo-indie band.

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  17. I think you look lovely in all of them, but Punchline is the sassiest. Me? I don’t want new glasses, but I need them – Faster Pussycat in Tiger Eye – if you please.

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  18. I think the Poetic Licence frames look fantastic on you (and your sexy duckface is spot. on.)

    I really like Punchline in Jet Black because not only am I hipster, but I am also totally boring.

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  19. I too, do not need glasses, but could you please, for the love of curls, talk to us about where you obtained your AMAZING new haircut? It is seriously the cutest, sassiest, most face-flattering thing I have ever seen! And as a curly-lady who is in desperate need of layering and has been agonizing over salon reviews, please help a sister out. 🙂 You look mahvelous, dahling!

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  27. Having multiple pairs of glasses to pick among is one of my greatest accessorizing pleasures. I really love the Hungry Heart in Tortoise.

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  30. So hard, they are all so cute. I’m thinking Faster Pussycat in Crocodile, Punchline in Moss Landing, or Je Ne Sais Quoi in Water Lily.

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  35. I am typically drawn towards cat eyes — I myself am looking at Spitfire in Galapagos green — but I like #1 best on you. I am also in a glasses rut – same pair for 8+ years – and am thinking I’ll get two pairs, one for crazy fun and one for every day.

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  39. I hope you are picking Look #1, Punchline in Neapolitan, because they look completely great on you. I think I would also like them for me but maybe in the Mossy version just so I’m not a copycat or anything.

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  43. I like the first ones on you! I love the two-tone, but am not sure if I can pull that off. So I want you to!

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  44. Oh, I’m going to take advantage of this glasses-commenting deal and get a twofer:

    My favorite memory about glasses (is that weird? I’ve worn them since I was eight…) is when I was changing my nephew’s diaper, and he was looking up at me and all the sudden he said, “Green.” (My glasses are black, but *inside* of them are green). He was like 18 months old or something. Genius, observant child.

    And my favorite ones from Rivet & Sway? I like the Kairos in Roasted Chestnut.

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  46. Aand, to go a little crazy, I also like All Who Wander in blue. I’ve not ever gotten glasses with much color, so these would be fun!

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  47. Spitfire! But I can’t pick a color…that red is kind of awesome.
    But I’d have to see them on my face because sometimes I think glasses will look awesome and then I put them on and yech.

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  49. The All Who Wander in Water Lily is pretty too. Not for every single day glasses, particularly not in every single day for seven years glasses. But they’re nice to mix things up on occasion.

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  50. Poetic License! But then, I like demure. And Moleskine notebooks. And awkward architects.

    I’m hopelessly biased.

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