Prescription Sunglasses & Custom Tinted Lenses
Create Your Perfect Prescription Sunglasses
We supply bespoke tinted lenses and prescription sunglasses, customised to your exact style and vision needs.
✔ Full colour tint options
✔ Prescription & non-prescription lenses
✔ Same day service available
✔ UV protection included
👉 Visit our Ilkeston store
Can Prescription Glasses Be Tinted?
Yes—both prescription and non-prescription lenses can be tinted in a wide range of colours and strengths.
Tinted lenses:
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Protect your eyes from sunlight
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Reduce glare and eye strain
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Add a unique style to your glasses
Tinting is not just cosmetic—it improves comfort and visual clarity in bright conditions
Choose Your Lens Tint
We offer a wide range of colours and styles:
Solid Tints
Classic sunglasses look (Grey, Brown, Green)
Gradient (Graduated) Tints
Darker at the top, lighter at the bottom
Two-Colour Tints
Blend one colour into another for a unique finish
Fashion Tints
Bold colours including:
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Red
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Yellow
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Blue
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Pink
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Purple
👉 Subtle tints (Grades 1–3) are ideal for indoor use
👉 Darker tints (75–85%) are best for sunglasses
Types of Sunglass Lenses
Prescription Sunglasses
Add your prescription to tinted lenses for clear vision outdoors
Non-Prescription (Plano) Sunglasses
Perfect for fashion or cosmetic use
Photochromic Lenses
React to sunlight—clear indoors, dark outside
Polarised Lenses
Reduce glare from surfaces like water and roads (ideal for driving and sports)
👉 Polarised lenses significantly improve clarity in bright conditions
Same Day Tinted Lenses Available
We can tint many lenses in-store within 1 hour, depending on your requirements.
For specialised lenses, Bifocal and Varifocal sunglass lenses turnaround is usually a few days.
Sunglasses with all lens colours are available. Visit us in-store and view our sample lenses including
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Grey tinted lenses
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Brown tinted lenses
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Ray-Ban Green tinted lenses
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Rose tinted lenses
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Yellow tinted lenses
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Black tinted lenses
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Graduated tinted lenses
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Two colour tinted lenses
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Upside down tinted lenses
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Mirror coated lenses,
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Tinted lenses with glare resitant coating included
👉 Need fast sunglasses? Visit us today
Bespoke Tinting – Made to Your Specification
We create custom tints tailored to your exact preference.
You can choose:
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Colour
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Depth (light to dark)
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Gradient style
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Two-colour blends
👉 Every pair is unique to your glasses
Reglaze Your Own Sunglasses
Add updated prescription lenses to your own frames
Non-Prescription (Plano) Sunglasses
fitted to your own non prescription sunglasses within an hour
Glasses Frames With Bespoke Clip Over Polarised Front Panel
Reduce glare from surfaces like water and roads, then remove and wear as regular prescription glasses.
Use Your Own Frames
Already have frames you love?
We can:
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Add prescription tinted lenses
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Replace lenses with tinted options
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Convert glasses into sunglasses
Reglazing allows you to keep your frames while upgrading your lenses
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1 hr service on single vision lenses
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Own uncoated lenses tinted
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Half grade tinted lenses
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Tints in-store can be altered for preference while you wait
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Semi rimless and rimless glasses tinted at our Ilkeston Laboratory
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Sun reacting lenses that work behind the car windscreen
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Extra dark sun reactive lenses
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We offer a wide range of colours
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Prescription Sunglasses in Ilkeston, Nottingham & Derby
Visit our Ilkeston store for expert advice and custom tinted lenses, serving customers from:
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Ilkeston
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Nottingham
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Derby
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Long Eaton
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Beeston
FAQs
What tint is best for sunglasses?
Grey, brown, and green are the most popular for natural vision.
Can I get light tinted lenses for everyday use?
Yes—lighter tints are ideal for indoor and screen use.
Do tinted lenses include UV protection?
Yes—all our tinted lenses include UV protection.
Can I add tint to my existing glasses?
Yes—we can replace your lenses with tinted versions.
Get Your Custom Sunglasses Today
Going on holiday?
We can help with same day prescription sunglasses service.
Get Your Custom Sunglasses Today
👉 Visit our Ilkeston store
👉 Choose your tint and lenses
👉 Fast, expert service
Our experienced optical technicians can help you with choosing the right coloured tints for maximum protection and cosmetic effect. Choose from many tint colours, tint shade depths and tinting styles that best suit our new or your existing sunglasses frames.
No appointment needed – walk in today
Some of the Colour Tints We supply In-store.
Graduated tints show best from grade 3 to 5
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4 Abs 75%
Grade 5
Abs 85%
Green
Grey
Blue
Yellow
Pink
Brown
Red
Purple
Dark Sunglasses
Why Polarised Lenses ?
We supply Polarised lenses in Grey or Brown. Polarised lenses don't change in colour. Polarised lenses are ideal for sports where glare hinders. Fishing, Cycling, Golf, Motorsports and driving, watersports in general and skiing and sailing can all be benefitted by using lenses that are polarised. if you want to cut out glare where the glare is high then consider polarised lenses. The difference and clarity is supreme. Polarised lenses look very similar to regular sunglass lenses.
Is polarisation a coating on the lenses?
Not exactly. Polarising lenses involves a laminated thin lenses being bonded to a prescription lens. The front surface laminated lens has no prescription, but is coloured to block the glare, and also twisted at a certain angle before being mounted to the prescription lens, in such a way that it diverts glare and bounces it off to the side out of the wearers vision.