Now I've been aware of Swanwick sleep and Swannies for a good few years now. For this
video I've gone and purchased my own pair of Swannies with my own cash so that I can
test them against an 'optical grade' glasses and also to determine whether
Swannies deserve the raving adoration of its fans across the world. Hi I'm Martin
Oguzie and this is Martin's eye tips, thank you for joining me.
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particular Swanwick sleep are the night Swanniess and they are the classic black
regular that I purchased this from Amazon. It comes in this presentation box and
once we open the box and have a look in we find the Swannies wrapped up in
a soft drawstring bag and along with that and we've also got a cleaning cloth
and microfiber cloth that's branded with the Swanwick brand and then also we get this
piece of card as well which is a thank you and further information for support
and things like that. So taking the Swan ease out of the packet we find that one
arms got a little plastic bag on there just to protect it from scratching and
instantly the first thing that hits you is the colour of the lenses and the
second thing that hits you is the rather nice anti-reflection coating that's on
the lens; that's what gives it that blue-like reflection.
So yeah it looks
really nice and the product itself and everything looks really solid and
actually quite well built and put together. You get a nice sprung hinge mechanism
there. Of course with these kinds of products you're always concerned about
whether; once you get it, it looks really cheap and tacky but, yeah it looks
really good looks well put together. The quality looks very good
there's no signs of, you know, poor workmanship or anything like that I can
see; quality is really consistent and in line with what you might find in an
optical retail store if you're after, you know, kind of middle of the range pair of
glasses really, so that's good and that's a nice surprise.
So I believe I bought this pair for about 59 pounds but two obvious ways
that you can get your Swannies; you can get them from Amazon and you can also
get them direct from the website as well so let's have a look at the website and
see what's on there and what they've got to offer. Okay so here we are
in the Swanwick sleep website and instantly you're hit with the range of products,
and front-and-center is their store a review section here, their blog and,
about Us page I think it makes sense to have a look at the about Us page. First
of all just to get a bit more information and Intel on the on the
company and the brand... so one of the interesting thing about Swanwick sleep
compared to other kinds of blue blockers that you might find on Amazon etc is
they really kind of position themselves more as a sleep company
rather than you know blue-blocking glasses to protect you from health
conditions such as macular degeneration or even just to make your vision more
comfortable on computers. Their primary focus is on getting a better night's
sleep after using Swannies and as a result, they typically will recommend that you
wear your Swannies about an hour or two before you go to sleep and keep it on
consistently before you sleep. So here we get an idea of some of the history and
I think they started in 2015 and I've actually been aware of Swannies from
maybe about 2016 or so when I think I first heard of them
and they were a kind of an internet sensation on Amazon I believe at the
time and lots of people are reviewing them and there were also glowing reviews
about it. It's really about at the time of the whole have blue-blocking movement
kind of really kicked off this was, so they are fairly established brand now
and you know with their emphasis being on sleep then, they do have other sleep
products on the site. So this is the co-founder James Swanwick
and obviously this Swanwick name for the brand comes from his surname, and then
here's his brother Tristan who is also the co-founder is all. So let's have a
look at this store and what's available in there so once we click in, these are
the main options that you've got so the Swannies that I've got are night Swannies
and they also have day Swannies. So the main difference really between day and
night is the intensity of the orange tint, so day Swannies are just a very
light tint, in fact in these pictures it almost looks like they're not tinted at
all, but they do have more of a visible tint I
believe that's visible in daylight. So let's have a look at the night's Swannies,
so yeah so they've got quite a bit more of a range then you'll find on Amazon so
obviously they're full of their full range is here and you can see the prices
range from $39 actually $49 this is a sale price apparently and then seemed to
go up to about 149 dollars I think the styling look of the frames
look really good there's quite a bit of diversity there and they've obviously
taken the range and done quite a bit with colour
variations and things as well. They also have normal sunglasses and then they
also have prescription
Swannies as well. That's quite interesting because you can't get this on Amazon
don't think, so if you wanted to have your Swannies made to your glasses
prescription you could do that on their website and they provide for progressive
lenses so that's your varifocals essentially and then your single vision
lenses, whether that's your distance glasses or your reading glasses your near
glasses or your farsight so that's catered for here. They also have the
night and the day options in that as well so there's quite a lot of
flexibility there to cover whatever your needs are and then they've got other
accessories and things which we won't necessarily go into there.
so then while we're here we'll have a quick look at the reviews and so they've
actually got about 1323 reviews on here and the average of which is full marks
can't find any that are negative had a look on Amazon as well I think they have
a few reviews on there and there are a few negative ones but I think you're
looking at about three and four out of five so, nobody's giving it a one or
anything like that, and some of the people that weren't
happy was primarily due to other issues of expectation and things like that but
yeah we could say never look at this and see what people think they've always had
this reputation of really having raving fans and people who are really pleased
with the product and a lot of people primarily buy it because of the benefit
for their sleep and perhaps heavy computer use and eye strain discomfort
things like that as well so yeah so that's some light reading for you there
Now back to the product and as for my thoughts about the optical quality now
My first impression of putting them on I was actually pretty amazed because
optically if they are really really good. So I've got here some blue
light blocking glasses that I made up with a local laboratory that I know and using that as
my reference and putting them one I thought these lenses were pretty good but
compared to the Swanwick lenses, the Swannies are far superior in terms of
clarity, saturation of colours, quality of the tint just seems so much
better and the anti-reflection coating that it's got on there as well makes a big
difference I think as well in visual comfort and also the optical
quality of the lens and what you see through it. So, it certainly did leave me
understanding a bit better why people really rave about this product. The lenses
are made out of a material that we cause C39 and that's the standard lenses
that we'd use in optical lenses anyway, so it's the standard material that we would use in
it. So optically it's a good quality, certainly if you don't have a
prescription then it's adequate and you know you certainly don't want
anything inferior to that used. I would say that looking through the
lenses it does seem like it's generally are just a better quality of
lens then I might have expected. So in terms of the quality of the frame I
think it's very robust probably a little bit better than the quality of
the frame that I had made up into my own blue blockers. So yeah, certainly no
complaints there; it's got sprung joints, everything seems well put together
doesn't seem to be any kind of faults in the lacquer the paintwork in
the kind of joints and hinges and even the points where the lenses are mounted
everything seems to be fitted in perfectly fine so that's good and the
styling wise as well, again, styling's a big reason why people are like Swanwicks
and they're Swanwick sleep glasses and products. They're just styled really
well as well certainly compared to the ones I've got here, they're way better from a
style point of view. So having gone out and purchased these Swannies with my own
cash and having tested them out I can really attest to the fact that the lens is
really are brilliant, the anti-reflection coating on there in particular I think
really makes a big difference so I have no reservations whatsoever in giving
Swanwick sleep glasses a firm a recommendation of buy based on purely the optics of the
lenses, how easy it is to look through and how comfortable they make
your vision. Now will they help you sleep better? I think everybody is different in
my experience I think it did make a difference in terms of how at ease I was before
I went to sleep and I generally sleep fairly well anyway so I think it was
hard for me to judge I think he definitely made a difference in terms of
my visual comfort and my preparedness for sleep. So I certainly don't doubt
that it can help people sleep more comfortably and sleep quickly
as well, certainly looking at the reviews in the many reviews of Swanwick sleep
customers, many people swear by them that they do help, and despite any
kind of other research and things that may say contrary to that or that may
agree with that, I think the thing that matters most is real life
user experience. So let me know in the comment section below do you currently
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