My First Foray

My First Foray
Into Rivet and Sway
Just Happened Today.


Too bad it couldn't have been oh-so poetic like those first three lines.

I tried a pair of sunglasses just before they added a whole bunch more styles.  They only had a few at the time, so I tried two of them.  I liked one, and all my friends liked it too.  So I bought it, as well as the pink Punchlines.

Alas.  Alas!  The sunglasses are horrible.  The pink Punchlines are fantastic, but the sunglasses are just the opposite of fantastic.  Wretchedly awful. 

I need a pair of big sunglasses to fight against my recent "oh hey sun allergy thing" that likes to afflict my hands and cheeks and nose.  I thought I could at least cover up my cheeks with some big-ass sunglasses.  Right?  The testers looked great, everyone gave the thumbs-up, and I thought they would be perfect.  They were a sort of tortoise-y red color, and red is the color of glasses.  (Seriously.  ANYONE can look good in red glasses.)

I don't know if it was the gradient lenses--I hadn't realized that you didn't get gradients if you need Rx lenses--or a poor memory of the color of the frames.  The frames I received today were black.  The sides were red, and indeed if you shine a light through the back of the frame, they're red as can be, but my face does not (yet) emit light.  So they just look flat black, and then the non-gradient lenses also look dark as dark can be.  With my whiter-than-white skin, that just leads to the sunglasses going OMNOMNOM on my face. 

So I need to go back to the drawing board.  Rivet & Sway swears they have a 60 day policy for returns, and I already know I hate these.  So I'm going to see what my options are.  Maybe try more frames and see if there's one that really works.  And I'll be sure to only go for things that look light.  They have some in a color called "grapefruit," so I may try those and see what happens.  And you can't go wrong with "tortoise." 

I still want red, though.  :/