u/drecca

Picture of my entire collection. You guys all know these frames, collection of Masunaga, Dita, Akoni for the most part. Some Cartier Santos, Esmont, Ahlem, JMM in there.

The first two pictures show the problem I have. Some of these frames quite literally duplicate function because the frames and lenses are so similar and I don't know what to do.

For example, the black Taka, Epiluxury 21, Akoni Telesto and Balmain Brigade are all... black navigators with mostly brown lenses. My bad, but now that I look at the collection in its entirety, I don't know what to do to make these frames serve different functions.

Same with picture 2, Silver Telesto, Silver Taka and Silver Lindstrum all with blue lenses. Not as bad, but similar enough too....

And then finally, I truly don't know what to do with the JMM Admirals (the big silver/gold with pink/violet lens) and the Esmont Kadena. I just don't like how they look, and don't know what to try to help them out, or just sell them, which is a pain in the ass to do.

I also recognize the Cartier Santos rimless, Esmont Habu 1 and the Grand Imperyn in black are in the same lane too. I prefer the latter two over the Cartier though, so not too bad.

Open to suggestions or recommendations, I've exhausted my own limited imagination, clearly having duplicated frames and lenses without realizing it until it was all in front of me.

I have the Dita Grand Imperyn in silver, and decided to get a sky blue gradient (second pic) which is the pretty obvious choice.

I also have the Akoni Juno-Four, in silver.. and now it's a bit of a problem. I can't figure out a different color tint for it. Getting another blue seems to be redundant choice. Violet? What other gradient tint colors go with silver? I was always scared of colors affecting vision too much, but realized later on that 35% or less gradient doesn't have much of an impact.

I always do a 35%-0% gradient on rimless, I like wearing them all the time, so nothing too dark.

On all of my dark colored frames, I put in a 15% grey-blue tint and on all my rimless I put a 30% to 0% grey-blue gradient tint.

I like the grey-blue because color accuracy is maintained and doesn't affect my vision.

I use my glasses at all times - indoors, outdoors, day and night. I don't wear sunglasses, only my glasses.

But on silver frames, it makes them look like sunglasses which I don't want.

What color tint blends well with silver frames?