“I’ve been wearing prescription glasses for most of my life. The reason is because I have weak eyes. My father wears glasses and so did his parents. Obviously one of the kids had to inherit the weak eye gene, and it happened to be me!” “After being introduced to Adele (Camarena) at Spectacle World by…
“I need spectacles because I can’t see and have been struggling with my eyes since school. I used to wear spectacles, but since my prescription is so high, I opted for contact lenses when I started my first job. My lenses became too thick and I was quite embarrassed wearing glasses. With Adele’s help, I…
THE SA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION ALERTS THE PUBLIC TO THE DANGERS OF PURCHASING READY MADE AND ADJUSTABLE READERS WITHOUT THE ADVICE OF A REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST OR EYE CARE PRACTITIONER. Visual impairment is considered the most prevalent impairment worldwide. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 285 million people suffer from moderate to severe vision loss ,with…
Camarena Porter Optometrist has launched a brand-new Eyewear Styling Service for existing and new customers at their practice in N1 Value Centre, Goodwood, after recently training their team as Eyewear Stylists with the Eyewear Styling Academy in London. This individually dedicated consultation service offers clients a unique and bespoke one hour eyewear styling consultation to…
Justin is Ranked #4 in SA CrossFit, and with this incredibly versatile sport his specs was slipping of his face that was a big frustration In case you do not know what CrossFit is, let us share it with you. CrossFit and the lifestyle surrounding it is very active with various different exercises from handstand…
He is a special 5 year old boy who has hearing loss and bilateral hearing aids for him to be able to function normally. This brave boy has learnt to listen and speak. Kungawo attends the Carel Du Toit centre at Tygerberg hospital. The lenses of his old spectacles kept on falling out and having…
Jean-Luc is a ‘happy go lucky’ young man, who received a scholarship to do programming and create insights based on data. Jean-Luc preforms his studies via Laptop at home; He struggled with blurry vision, which made it difficult for him to read. He also started experiencing headaches from having his eyes on his screen monitor…
TO YOUR FRIEND OLWAMI ! As students, studying, doing shopping on line, working on laptops, spending a lot of time on digital devices, their concerns were eye strain, dry eyes, tiredness. They suffered from digital eye strain. Meet our VALENTINES DAY GIVEAWAY WINNER, Nonhlanhla Ndlovu, known to all as “Blessing”. Blessing is a vibrant entrepreneur,…