Gosh, these shades make me look like a genuine bada#s, don't they? Well, I have a confession to make. I didn't pick them out. My husband did. He gave them to me for Christmas. Not only did I not pick them out, I didn't even like them..... at first. I secretly was a little disappointed when I opened them. What a b#tch.
You see, I had mentioned I needed a new pair of sunglasses. I even hinted around the exact pair I wanted. Come on girls, you know sometimes we need to guide our men to the gifts we really want, no matter how many years we've been married.
A few days before Christmas our 3 year old blew my gift by saying "Mommy, daddy got you new glasses!!" My heart smiled. I couldn't wait for Christmas morning to open up my new sunnies and rock them for our Mexico trip in a few weeks.
So Christmas morning came and I watched my kids joyfully rip through gift after gift. I sat and blissfully enjoyed the moment. Secretly, I couldn't wait to rip open my own gift and put those gorgeous sunnies straight on my face. The Tiffany blue and black shades were going to be just perfect against my platinum hair. After the excitement of Christmas morning with the kids died down, I quietly opened my gift.
Ummm, what the f#ck is this? These are NOT the sunnies I hinted at. "Do you like them?" My husband asks. "Yah" I quickly replied. He could sense my disappointment. "You're always borrowing my Ray Bans and I thought the lenses on these were really cool." He was right. I was always stealing his Ray Bans and the mirrored lenses were pretty cool. I'd seen them all over Instagram. It seemed like every fashion blogger I follow had been rocking some sort of mirrored sunglasses recently. It's just that they weren't 'the ones' I'd been hoping for. But they were pretty cool. "You can exchange them at Nordstrom if you don't like them" my sweet husband said. I felt like a complete jerk now. He put a lot of thought into picking out these glasses.
The truth was I wasn't sure if I liked them or not. They were kind of cool. But where they too cool? Too wild? They just weren't what I was expecting. Maybe that was okay. Maybe my husband was actually cooler than me? Over the weekend I tried the shades on several times and they started to grow on me. I waited until Monday morning and I tried them on for my younger, hipper friend Al. She loved them. That sealed the deal. The tags were off and I never looked back. I'm so glad I didn't because now I'm OBSESSED with them.
Moral of the story... sometimes your husband is cooler than you. Sometimes he knows you better than you know yourself. Sometimes you just need a younger, hipper friend to agree with him.
Shop my favorite mirrored shades plus 'the ones' that got away below.