Designer & Independent Eyewear
Style Eyes is an independent optical boutique in downtown Burlington. Fifteen-plus designer and independent eyewear brands, lenses built around your prescription, and every pair styled and fitted in person by a Master Optician with 25+ years behind the bench.
Use this as a starting point, not a rulebook. Bridge fit, temple length, prescription thickness and your colouring all change the answer — which is why we try frames on together rather than sending you to a filter menu.
Suits: Square, angular and strong-jawed faces
Softens hard angles and adds a touch of intellectual, vintage character. A perennial favourite in acetate from Moscot and Oliver Peoples.
Suits: Round and fuller faces
Adds definition and structure, visually lengthening the face. Works beautifully in thin metal for a quieter look or bold acetate for presence.
Suits: Heart-shaped and oval faces
Lifts the eye line and balances a narrower chin. Ranges from subtle upsweep to full statement silhouette.
Suits: Oval, square and longer faces
A classic double-bridge metal shape that flatters almost everyone. The default for prescription sunglasses.
Suits: Almost every face shape
The safest, most wearable silhouette — ideal for a first pair, a work pair, or anyone who wants their glasses to disappear.
Suits: Oval and balanced features
For anyone who wants their eyewear to be the outfit. Hand-finished independent collections do these best.
Our wall is curated, not stocked. Alongside recognised names like Ray-Ban, Oakley and Persol, we carry independent houses — DITA, Etnia Barcelona, Moscot, Cutler and Gross, Blackfin — that you will not find in a chain optical in Burlington or Oakville.
The frame is half the pair. We design lenses around how you actually use your eyes — screens, driving, reading, sport — using ZEISS, Essilor and Nikon lens technology, with anti-reflective, blue-light-filtering and photochromic options explained in plain language.
A perfect prescription in a badly fitted frame is still a bad pair of glasses. Farshad Nekoui measures pupil height, vertex distance and pantoscopic tilt on every job, and adjusts your frame in person — before you leave, and any time afterwards.
Polarised, tinted and mirrored prescription lenses in the same designer frames you would buy off the shelf — plus sport and driving tints for the Lakeshore and the QEW.
We tell you the complete price — frame, lenses, coatings — before anything is ordered, and we will happily build you a pair that hits a budget rather than pushing the wall's most expensive frame. Most major insurance plans are direct billed.
A curated mix of recognised designer houses and small independent makers, plus the lens technology behind them.
There is no single price for eyewear, and anyone quoting one before seeing your prescription is guessing. Four things move the number — we walk you through all four and quote the complete cost before we order anything.
Accessible designer labels sit at one end; handmade Italian acetate, Japanese titanium and small-batch independent collections at the other. Materials, hand-finishing and production scale explain most of the gap.
Stronger prescriptions need higher-index material to stay thin and light, and progressive designs cost more than single vision because they are individually surfaced to your measurements.
Single vision, office/computer, driving and premium progressive designs each solve a different problem. We match the design to how you use your eyes rather than defaulting to the top tier.
Anti-reflective, scratch resistance, blue-light filtering, photochromic and polarised treatments are each optional. We tell you which ones will genuinely matter for you.
Insurance and payment: we direct bill most major insurance plans, so in many cases you pay only the difference. Bring your plan details and we will check your coverage before you commit to a pair. Need a current prescription first? Our eye exams in Burlington happen on site, so you can choose frames the same day.
Style Eyes is an independent optical boutique at 468 Brant St, Unit 1 in downtown Burlington. We carry 15+ designer and independent eyewear brands, cut and fit lenses for every prescription, and every pair is fitted in person by Master Optician Farshad Nekoui.
The final price of a pair of glasses depends on two things: the frame and the lenses. Frames range from accessible designer labels to handmade independent collections, and lenses vary with your prescription, the lens design (single vision, progressive, office) and the coatings you choose. We quote the complete price before we order anything, and we direct bill most major insurance plans.
Yes, prescription eyewear requires a current prescription. If yours has expired or you have never had an exam, our on-site optometrist can complete a comprehensive eye exam at the same location, so you can choose frames the same day.
In most cases, yes. Bring your frame in and we will assess whether it can safely take new lenses. If the frame is brittle, warped or the shape will compromise your prescription, we will tell you honestly rather than sell you a lens job that will not work.
Most single vision jobs are ready within about a week, and progressive or specialty lenses typically take a little longer. Rush options are available on many lens designs — ask when you order.
As a general rule, contrast works: angular frames flatter round faces, softer rounded and oval frames flatter square faces, and cat-eye or upswept shapes balance heart-shaped faces. Oval faces suit almost anything. Face shape is only the starting point though — fit at the bridge and temples, your prescription thickness and your colouring matter just as much, which is why we style every pair in person.
Yes. There is free street and lot parking within a short walk of 468 Brant St in downtown Burlington. We are also an easy drive from Aldershot, Waterdown and Oakville.
468 Brant St, Unit 1, Burlington, ON — free parking nearby. Serving Burlington, Aldershot, Waterdown and Oakville. No appointment needed to browse.