Taking fashion advice from Harry Potter.

I suffer from the occasional identity crisis and you can probably sympathize. You wake up one day and decide that you want to change your look. More often than not, my hair is the victim. I either decide to cut off 6 inches with no regard to the several months I intentionally spent avoiding my hairdresser, or I decide to change the color, ignoring the fact that dark hair makes me look an extra from Twilight. In both cases, I’m pretty reckless as my only instructions to my hair dresser are: I want something edgy.

8 hair colors later, I’ve learned it’s pretty easy to change your look without the commitment a haircut entails. The solution: prescription-less glasses. Sure, the Harry Potter glasses probably aren’t my first choice for a pair of sexy specs, but it made for a catchy title.

People will occasionally ask about my glasses while I’m wearing them and when I explain that they’re fake they all ask the same question: why wear glasses if you don’t need to? I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s not like I’m walking around with pseudo-braces or crutches. Glasses can be sexy-- plain and simple. And hey, who’s to say pseudo-braces won’t be in one day. Uggs had their day, after all.

The hard part is finding fake glasses. 
Correction: the hard part is finding non-hipster fake glasses. Don’t get me wrong, I love hipsters but those oversized glasses that take up half of your face aren’t very becoming on most people; myself included.

In the past I have had success finding glasses at Nordstrom (they carry some great ones and they only cost $10!), Forever 21, and For Love 21. I’ve browsed the online sites, but I’ve never actually bought anything because I personally like trying things on. Here's a website that has glasses starting at just $8:

http://www.sunglasswarehouse.com/fake-clear-glasses.html

Yes, if you must know, they're fake.

Here’s to Fakes—at least when it comes to glasses—lc.