Salt.Optics at ContactsandSpecs.com 

One of our better-kept sartorial secrets comes in the form of a Berlin-based, handmade eyewear brand called Mykita. We’ve been fans of the modernist optical frames for a few years now – well, five to be precise – and, given the brand is now celebrating its 5th birthday, we thought it time to trade in our secret in the spirit of spreading the speccie love.

Apart from the glasses themselves, we’re drawn to Mykita’s tangible personality, informed by its Berlin abode. With a store like an apothecary in Mitte and a range of eyewear that spans laboratory flat metal to 1950s thick black frames, the company is quietly keeping us off the contact lenses.

In celebration of reaching five, Mykita has produced a good-looking coffee table book – 5 – that shows how the brand started, how and where the glasses are made and, with more of an edge, the incumbent fun that can be had wearing a loud pair of specs. Definately worth raising your glasses for.

Despite the fact that we should all have bigger concerns on our mind than our appearance in this modern day and age of our economy and strife it is never far from our minds. People have worried about how they look and how attractive they are in comparison to their peers for hundreds of years and there is no sign of it ceasing yet. There is nothing wrong with vanity in this modern era, in fact it is positively encouraged as a sign of a good healthy attitude to life.

People have had the same major worry for hundreds of years and nothing much looks like changing. One of humanities major concerns is how they look. Consider it or not, in among all the stuff that people in the modern world have to face everyday most people still find time to worry about appearance.

Your face, your eyes is the first thing that people see when they look at you.  So make sure that they see that you care about your appearance by wearing the right pair of glasses. You take the time to wear a different outfit everyday, then don’t forget that you should do the same with your face and wear the right pair of frames.

Looks can be deceiving with the wrong pair of shades on. That’s why Salt Optics is dedicated to giving consumers quality specs, and not just a flashy frame. Since launching in 2006, the So Cal company has hung its hat on it’s prism-free transparent which basically means, your eyes will stay healthy without that numbing distorted effect after a long period with them on (even at night). Check out the new styles at ContactsandSpecs.com