May 31, 2018
For some reason, tomorrow is National Donut Day. The debate apparently “rages on” with regards to the proper spelling of donut/doughnut. It is the kind of debate and the kind of rage reserved solely for the terminally loathsome, and the pedantic at heart....
May 3, 2018
Google “Rihanna sunglasses”. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Okay, now that you’re back, maybe you saw what I saw. Cat eye. Traditional cat eye, cat eye aviators, brow bar cat eye aviators, etc etc. Rihanna loves cat eye frames. Full stop. Maybe not as...
May 1, 2018
Summer is finally upon us. It’s the beginning of May, and you need some sunglasses to carry you through Summer 2018. Let everyone else walk around in last year’s frames. Retro is one thing. Being stuck in the past is another. All summer long, Blink Optical...
Apr 21, 2018
Once again we find ourselves celebrating Record Store Day, the annual celebration of visiting shops occupied only by pretentious music enthusiasts and hipsters the other 364 days of the year. Or at least that’s seems to be the popular consensus. In reality,...
Dec 23, 2010
Once upon a time, in a land called Lake Forest (near Chicago), there was a beautiful luxury eyewear boutique called Blink Optical. Here one could find the most amazing gifts: Chrome Hearts, ic! Berlin, La Loop, Robert Marc, Gold & Wood, and Lunor to name a few. ...