Wearing glasses isn’t an easy gig. The constant red dent on the bridge of your nose, the way your lenses steam up every time you open the oven door. Not forgetting those clip-on sunglasses lenses that attached to your normal specs (and saved your mum having to buy two pairs on prescription).

Then there’s the teen movie tropes of the ‘ordinary’ girl who removes her glasses to become ‘beautiful’ (thanks a bunch She’s All That) which meant you had to constantly strive to prove yourself anything other than a grade A nerd - Saved By The Bell had a lot of answer for. 

Yet in recent years, glasses have taken on a new kind of hipster cool, with all and sundry sporting them (despite the infuriating fact that most posses 20:20 vision). Yet for those of us who wear them out of necessity, because if we don't we can't send a text or read a menu, our relationship with our frames is far more complex. Below are 25 things only girls who wear glasses know to be true.

1. Because we got teased as kids - we can be quite defensive when people pay us compliments.

2. (And FYI: only Zooey Deschanel in glasses can look like Zooey Deschanel in glasses...)

3. Whereas men who wear glasses are likened to poets or scientists, we get told we look like ‘sexy secretaries’...

4. Or failing that, Greek singers from the 60s.

5. On the other hand, you never get called a bimbo.

6. Learning how to apply make-up sans specs was tricky – luckily, with it being the 90s, you could pass off your botched mascara efforts as ‘grunge’.

7. Yet even now, when you've got the whole make-up thing down, you sometimes can’t help but feel like your glasses just obscure your entire face.

8. Hence you tend to exaggerate the eyeliner to make up for it…

9. ...together with sexy messed up hair.

10. Or just give up and adopt a Daria-like insouciance instead.

11. At secondary school you had to work harder to prove you were a badass (fooling no one).

12. But on the other hand, you got away with a lot more as teachers were less suspicious of you.

13. Taking your glasses off for the school disco resulted in kissing guys whilst having no idea what they looked like...

14. ...you just had to take your friends’ word for it.

15. You’ve gone through every household cleaner and polish to try and get those smears off your lenses...

16. You often find yourself doing the 'carpet pat' when they mysteriously disappear around every three days...

17. ...and watching 3D films is always, er, interesting.

18. Fran from Strictly Ballroom was your idol growing up...

19. ...as was Miss Honey from Matilda.

20. When you first got contact lenses, it felt like the end of Pinocchio when he finally becomes a ‘real boy.’

21. And you could finally reach the dizzy heights of stank-eye, plus every other type of dirty look you'd always tried and failed to pull off...

22. In a cruel twist of fate, glasses finally got cooler in the years AFTER you left school.

23. At which point you realised that actually, in the right frames, you looked pretty damn hot.

24. Over the years, you’ve learnt how to deploy them in the art of seduction.

25. But you still REALLY don’t get people who wear those fake hipster glasses with the clear lenses.