Eyewear Insights & Eye Care
Expert guides on lens care, frame trends, UV protection, and everything you need to see - and look - your best.
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Best Eye Clinics in Kathmandu (2026): Our Top 5 Picks
Looking for the best eye clinic in Kathmandu? We compare five trusted options, from a free eye test at Blurkart to the valley's leading eye hospitals, and explain which one suits your problem.
The eye test before a driving licence in Nepal
Most people who fail did not know they needed glasses. Ten free minutes beforehand avoids a second trip.
Loose hinge on glasses, bent temple, missing screw
Two of these you can handle. The third usually ends with a stripped thread and a worse problem.
Scratched lenses: can they be repaired?
Short answer: no. Longer answer: every home remedy on the internet makes it worse, and here is why.
Night blindness, or just bad street lighting?
Unlit lanes make everyone worse at night. Here is how to tell that apart from a problem in your eyes.
Floaters: the dots that drift across your vision
Usually harmless, usually permanent, occasionally an emergency. The difference is how suddenly they arrived.
Night shift eye strain: a guide for BPO workers
Everything that makes daytime screen work tiring is worse at 3am, and the office lighting is usually working against you.
Video call glare: stopping your glasses reflecting the screen
Three free fixes and one permanent one. The permanent one is a lens coating, not a camera setting.
Anti-glare screen protectors or anti-glare glasses?
They solve different halves of the same problem. One costs you sharpness, the other does not.
Gaming glasses: marketing or useful?
The tint is mostly theatre. The coating underneath is the part that does something.
Dark mode vs light mode: which is easier on your eyes?
The honest answer is that the room matters more than the mode, and one group of people should not use dark mode at all.
Mirrored lenses: style or function?
The coating does something. Whether it does enough to matter depends entirely on where you are standing.
Sunglasses for driving on the Prithvi Highway
Tunnels, tree shade, river glare and low sun in the gorge. One lens has to handle all of it.
Which sunglasses shape suits your face?
Contrast is the rule. Width is the thing nobody checks, and it decides whether you wear them at all.
Polarised lenses and phone screens: why the display goes black
Not a fault in your sunglasses, and not a fault in your phone. Two filters at right angles.
How to tell a real polarised lens from a fake one
Any shop can print POLARIZED on a sticker. Two tests settle it before you pay.
Reading your contact lens prescription: BC, DIA and power
Five short codes, one of which explains why you cannot just order lenses from your glasses prescription.
Toric lenses for astigmatism: why they cost more
A normal lens can spin freely and still work. A toric one cannot, and everything expensive about it follows from that.
Contact lens solution: multipurpose or peroxide?
Two systems, one of which will hurt badly if you use it wrong. Here is which suits whom.
Red eyes after contact lenses: harmless or a warning?
One of these clears while you make tea. The other needs a doctor today. The difference is pain, not colour.
Can you sleep in contact lenses?
Your cornea gets its oxygen from the air. A lens left in overnight is a lid closed over a closed door.
Lazy eye: why early glasses matter
A lazy eye is not a weak muscle. It is a brain that stopped listening to one eye, and the window to fix it closes.
Office lenses: the in-between option
A lens designed for a room rather than a horizon. For desk workers over 40, often the single biggest comfort upgrade available.
Matching frames to your hair and skin tone
Check the veins on your wrist. That one test narrows the colour choice more than any style rule.