Does Wearing Glasses For A Long Time Make Your Eyes Smaller?

[Guest sheLLiJiElUn]

is it a myth?

Ever since I was small, I have had really big eyes.. but then.. after years of wearing glasses..my eyes are smaller. My mom told me that its because of my glasses..

do you think she's telling a fact?..or.. is it because of some other reason?

Thanks for your imput!

[Guest L0veLy<3]

eh...i'm not sure but my theory is that your eyes are getting worse and worse so you tend to squint to see better therefore your eyes appear smaller. LOL, don't trust me on this, this is only my input on this subject. :lol:

[_ambrosia]

^ that kinda makes sense lol.

My theory is that wearing glasses magnify your eyes so when you take them off it just appears smaller relatively speaking hahah. But I really don't know. Interesting question.

[Guest bonbons]

that is crazy talk..

how does glasses affect ur eye size?!?!? XDDD it doesnt even touch the eyes. it's like 2 cm away from the eyes ghahaha

[Guest shimoda]

hehehe

it's that when you are born, your eyes are already large. as you grow older, your face grows but your eyes stay the same size and shape, so in comparison, it seems your eyes are shrinking but they really are not.

[joonage]

Glasses make everything seem smaller. If you take off your glasses, your eyes will look bigger.

And yeah, you're eyeballs stay the same size throughtout life (unless you get surgury xD)

I used to have pretty big eyes too ... but I got a little chubby. >.<

[coffee]

that is crazy talk..

how does glasses affect ur eye size?!?!? XDDD it doesnt even touch the eyes. it's like 2 cm away from the eyes ghahaha

lmao, seriously though.

when you wear glasses, sometimes it can make your eyes appear larger or smaller, depending on if you're nearsighted or farsighted. but when you take them off, your eyes are still the same size as they should be.

[Guest tHe_aRisTocRatiC_aSSaSSiN]

When you're born, you have large eyes. But as you grow older, the ratio from your eye size to your face shape change.

[Guest moochelle]

it's because the lenses magnifies your eyes, so they naturally look larger while you have them on.

hehehe

it's that when you are born, your eyes are already large. as you grow older, your face grows but your eyes stay the same size and shape, so in comparison, it seems your eyes are shrinking but they really are not.

yeah, this makes sense.

[Guest BAN`CHAN]

i think when you have your glasses on, people are used to how big your eyes look.. but after when you take them off, it seems to appear smaller. i don't think there is a real big difference in the size after you wear glasses for a long time though..

[Guest Freshh]

my mom said my eyes gotten smaller too

not sure if she's telling the truth but i use to have double eyelid, now i only have single

[Guest Steph*]

hehehe

it's that when you are born, your eyes are already large. as you grow older, your face grows but your eyes stay the same size and shape, so in comparison, it seems your eyes are shrinking but they really are not.

YUP. Your eyes never really change size from when you're born.

When I was a baby my eyes were HUGEEEEEE. Now my eyes are just average sized..

[Guest joongie;love]

I was born with big eyes, i've had glasses five years now and people still go on about how big my eyes are :X

So .. I dont think so ?

[Guest chipmunkvoice]

my mom said my eyes gotten smaller too

not sure if she's telling the truth but i use to have double eyelid, now i only have single

T_____T saaaame here!

except ... one eyelid is now single and the other is still a double O_o" its so spastic

ive started to wear contacts ... i think people are getting to used to seeing my eyes hidden behind glasses

[Guest lady_stylesz]

UHH.......LMAO..

no..

[Guest HEARSE.]

I've been wearing glasses for 2.5 years and I've just switched to contacts recently. I've never seen a noticable change in my eye size, but my friends think my eyes look bigger with glasses.

[Guest Luly]

definitely a myth.

and a weird one.. :D

[Guest hunny]

wow..

that means that people with smaller faces will have their eyes appearing to be bigger.. darn. i'm gonna reshape my face structure.

[Joanna]

lol it doesn't. it's a fact that the size of your eyes DO NOT change from birth. so that means you will always have the same eye shape. i thought my eyes got smaller after i wore glasses too but i found out it's because i got chubbier T___T and my eyes look slightly smaller now

[summerdamsel]

i dunno ...

but eyeball size never changes and out face gets bigger ... so yeah

but i noticed the people .. my classmate.. she has big eyes...

and when she wore it for like a year .. when i saw her took it off... her eyes were reallly smaller .. same as with my other friend...