How Can I Straighten My Eye Glasses?

When you cannot get to your eye care practitioner for an eye glass repair -- and your glasses are crooked -- you can straighten your frames -- but you have to use caution. Most optical retail offices adjust glasses for no charge, or a small fee: But for those times when the office is closed or inconvenient, you can fix your frames yourself. Be careful, though. If you break the frame adjusting it yourself, you might void or consume the balance of your frame warranty.

Things You'll Need

• Mirror

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Instructions

• 1

  Put your eyeglasses on and observe how they sit on your face. Most people are not symmetrical. Your frames should follow a horizontal feature across your face, such as your eyebrows or your pupils. Note whether your right lens or left lens is higher.

• 2

  Take your glasses off. To raise the right lens up when it is on your face, hold your frame sideways -- so the right lens faces towards your left -- and the bottom of the lenses are facing away from you. You will be moving the right temple, the part that sits on your ear, down, away from you -- to raise the lens up as you wear it.

• 3

  Hold the front of the frame with your left hand and very, very gently bend the right temple down toward the bottom of the frame. The movement should be less than a millimeter, so as not to break the hinge that holds the temple to the front.

• 4

  Put the frame on and look in the mirror, to check the adjustment. If more adjustment is needed, remove the frame and repeat the steps until the frame is straight. To move the left lens up, repeat the process but with the left lens on top, as you hold the frame. Repeat each step.