Your optometrist will adjust your eyeglass frames for you when you first purchase them, but you may find it necessary to make other small adjustments on your own as time goes by. The two most common adjustments to make are to the temple pieces, which can correct eyeglasses that sit crooked on your face, or adjusting the nose pads, which will fix eyeglasses that may sit too high or too low on your face, or be crooked to one side.
Step 1
Turn the eyeglasses upside down and set them, top down, on a flat surface. This will make it easy to see if one of the temple pieces, also known as ear pieces, is sitting higher than the other.
Step 2
Pick the glasses up and pinch the place where the temple piece meets the lens or frame between the finger and thumb of one hand to stabilize it. Use the other hand to gently bend the temple piece up or down until it sits even with its mate.
Step 3
Adjust the nosepads on your eyeglasses, if necessary, by pinching the lens and frame on one side between your thumb and forefinger. Use the thumb and forefinger of the other hand to gently bend the nosepads in---to make your glasses sit higher---or out, to make them sit lower.
Step 4
Make sure that both nosepads are equally bent in or out. If they're not even, your glasses will sit crooked to the left or the right. This means that putting them on is one of the best ways to make sure the nosepads are even; if they're crooked to one side or the other, gently adjust the pads in or out until the glasses sit evenly.
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