MODA Premium Package

"The Moda range arrives at Visique Kapiti Eyecare!

Visique Kapiti Eyecare, at the Pier building in Howell Road, Paraparaumu Beach, has seldom supplied “package” spectacles. We believe that you are an individual, your eyes are individual, and we enjoy tailoring frames and lenses to suit your prescription, your looks and your purse. But with the support of Essilor (who manufactures lenses in Auckland) and Euro-Optics (a New Zealand-owned frame wholesaler), Visique Kapiti Eyecare is really pleased to introduce the Moda range – frames and premium lenses in men’s, women’s, teens and children’s ranges.

The beauty of the Moda range is that there are models to suit most people, and the ability to provide stock lenses or specially-made lenses into the frames. The children’s and teen ranges are inexpensive enough to be suitable for parents whose children are eligible for the Enable spectacles subsidy, which was developed in conjunction with the NZ Association of Optometrists, which is the professional grouping of optometrists in NZ.

The Moda range for adults all has Crizal anti-reflective coatings included. This reduces annoying glare, especially with night-driving or computer-use, and, in any case, it makes the spectacles look better. The progressive lenses are Essilor X’ion – a great value-for-money lens that performs better than top-of the-range progressive lenses of only 3 or 4 years ago.

So, we at Visique Kapiti Eyecare are pleased that we can offer our patients a great value for money range of frames and lenses, but still catering to each person as an individual. Believe your eyes? You can at Visique!"

This is the article that we are placing in the "Kapiti Observer" to talk about Moda, the new frames and lenses' package. We've had the frames in for a week now, and the range has attracted a lot of interest. Nice styles, good colours, good quality for the price and excellent lenses - what more could you want?

Come in and see them soon!

Back to school 2011

With most schools and colleges starting back this week, it's time to remember that your child's vision is very important in learning. The school screening tests just check distance vision (and colour vision for Year 7 boys) and are really "focussed" :-) on seeing that the two eyes see similarly, so that they both develop in tandem. And of course much of classroom work, and homework, is to do with close vision - reading, writing, drawing, computer-based work. The school screenings do not test for this.

The Visique and NZAO websites explain more about the signs you should look for to see if your child might be having a visual problem - sore eyes, red eyes, rubbing the eyes, heaaches and avoiding using the eyes are the most obvious. But we recommend that every child in the middle school has a full eye exam, and from that we can often predict how well and how comfortably the child will see in most situations as he or she goes through school.

Sports vision is a speciality of some optometrists, so we can refer your budding archer, cricketer or clay pigeon shooter for extra visual training if need be. And sometimes wearing contact lenses rather than glasses means that school is a hppier place to be - many of us were called "four eyes" at school and I know that (unfortunately) this still happens.

Until 28 March, all children's vision exams (for children under 18) gain an extra 30 bonus Fly Buys points. So it is an especially good time to have your child's vision, eye health and eye co-ordination examined at present. Phone to book in soon.