Save $50 on Complete Designer Eyeglasses on our Facebook!
Save with the Big Sexy Summer Sale and Facebook Coupon! Updating your wardrobe is one of the best aspects of the season, and Hakim Optical has an eyeglasses sale and a Facebook coupon to go along with all of your new purchases! If you’ve been thinking about buying new...
Polarized Lenses Offer Glare-Free Summers
Polarized Lenses Having fun in the sun is the best part of summer; going outside and enjoying the warm weather before the seasons change. However, those of us that wear glasses know that it can be very irritating when the sunshine’s glare hits your eyes and you feel...
Spring Style Guide: Mirrored Sunglasses
Mirrored Sunglasses are the Popular Choice this Summer It’s spring and it’s time to take a look in the mirror, or better yet, take a look through new mirrored sunglasses. Spring is the best time to revamp your style, especially if you’ve been thinking of adding some...
Spring Style Guide 2016
Spring Style Guide 2016 We’re going to see a lot of temperature change in the upcoming weeks, and so we’ll be changing up our style for the spring! What better way to jazz up your spring style than with a pair of new frames from our Style Guide? With each frame comes...
Taxes Glasses Could be Your Way to a New Pair of Frames
Taxes Glasses Can Save You Money! To get the best pair of eyeglasses to fit your needs, something you can take advantage of is what we call Taxes Glasses. If you’re a prescription lens wearer, you know how important it is to have a great pair of glasses that are both...
Finding Your Glasses Without Glasses
Your Guide to Finding Your Glasses Without Glasses. As anyone who needs to wear glasses will tell you, taking them off for an extended period of time can lead to the stressful situation of forgetting where you left them. Finding your glasses without glasses can be a...
Avoid the Big Eyes Mirage from Glasses
Snapchat filters with big eyes are fun, but with your glasses, not so much. A major concern people tend to have when purchasing a brand new pair of glasses is whether or not their new pair will appear to alter the size of their eyes. The appearance of small or big...
Glasses Slipping? Keep Them up With the Proper Fit
One of the most common inquiries we receive is about glasses slipping. Fit is one of the major concerns that people have when looking for vision correction. One of the most common fit issues we encounter is glasses slipping down customers’ noses. This can be a very...
Popular Frames from 2015
Our 5 Most Popular Frames of 2015 What we know about the future is what we learn from the past. So, when searching for popular frames for 2016, we thought it might be helpful to check out Hakim Optical’s most popular eyeglasses of 2015! While our brand selection can...
Men’s Winter Style Guide 2016
Use our Style Guide to Stay Fashionable! We’re bringing you our Men’s Winter Style Guide in this weird half winter, half spring February that has been very confusing for many Canadians and their outfit choices. Despite the inconsistent weather, one thing that can...
2016 Women’s Winter Style Guide
Hakim Optical Winter Style Guide In Canada, winter style is harder to manage because of the weather, but the right eyeglasses can add sophistication to any outfit. The snow, ice, wind and cold temperatures force us to wear multiple layers that makes everyone look like...
How Glasses Work
It’s easy to take glasses for granted in Canada, there are optical stores around every corner and many companies offer coverage when you purchase a pair. We find that many customers that wear our products still want to know how glasses work. For a long period of time...
Give the Gift of Choice with a Hakim Optical Gift Card
Get your friends and family what they really want this year: Choice! That can be achieved with a Hakim Optical Gift Card. Even with those closest to you, it’s easy to know what item someone wants. Things get a little more difficult when stylistic or operational...
Take the Quiz: Lens or No-Lens?
Take the Quiz: Lens or No-Lens? Unfortunately, not all of us are blessed with the ability to wear glasses every day. Some people want the fashionable frames, but can't use the lenses to back them up. These poor souls are cursed with perfect vision and although they...
2015 Men’s Fall Style Guide
Fall is the most fashionable time of the year and our fall style guide will keep your style trending. It’s not too hot to wear pants or a long sleeve shirt, but it’s also not to cold that you have to wear a puffy, goose-down jacket. There is an art to fall fashion -...
Design Your Dream Hakims for a chance to win $1,000 cash and more!
Finding the right pair of frames can be a difficult task. Sometimes the ones you like don’t fit your face, other times they don’t fit your style. Maybe the frames you’ve always wanted don’t even exist? That’s why we’re asking you to Design Your Dream Hakims. Whether...
Design Your Dream Hakims Contest, Terms and Conditions
Contestants must submit their designs by 11:59pm EST on December 13, 2015. Ten finalists will be selected. Five of these said finalists will be selected based on the number of likes, retweets, favourites, shares, and comments on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram....
2015 Women’s Fall Style Guide
Fall is the best fashion time of the year! It fluctuates in temperature to provide you with the flexibility to wear all of your favourite outfits, it offers beautiful background scenery for your selfies and it really pumpkin-spices up our lives. If you’re looking for...
Turn heads with coloured contacts
Whether you're making a fashion statement or seeking therapeutic benefits, coloured contact lenses are worth considering. Tinted lenses have dye incorporated into the lens material that can change the appearance of your eyes. At the extreme end of the style scale,...
How to Read Your Contact Lens Prescription
We previously wrote about how to understand your eyeglass prescription. This week, we’ll be writing a similar article teaching you how to read your contact lens prescription because there are slight differences. Overall, the prescription layout is pretty similar as...