ACTRESS Kara Tointon sparkles with specs appeal as she launches Specsavers’ nationwide search for the Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2011.
The Strictly Come Dancing winner and former Eastenders actress, 27, who is getting set to star alongside Rupert Everett in the West End production of Pygmalion, is helping the UK’s largest optical retailer to find ordinary people who look extraordinary in their glasses.
Kara Tointon says: 'I love wearing my glasses so I am very excited to be launching this year's competition. It's amazing how a pair of glasses can completely change your look. They can transform you from dowdy to fabulous in a flash!
'In my own case, glasses are my friend because not only have they helped me see, they have also helped me counter my dyslexia through the use of coloured lenses which aid me in learning my lines for acting out scenes.
'This competition is very important, not only from a fashion point of view. On a more serious note, it is important that children and teenagers who need to wear glasses for reading and learning are not put off wearing them because they are teased. All proceeds from this competition go to the anti-bullying charity Kidscape, sending a very strong message to bullies and giving children the confidence to wear their glasses loud and proud.’
As well as fronting the campaign, Kara is supporting anti-bullying charity Kidscape. Specsavers will donate £1 for every eligible competition entry to the charity, as well as all proceeds from a high profile auction led by Specsavers ambassador Gok Wan, which will take place at the competition final in London in November.
Specsavers founder, Dame Mary Perkins, says: ‘Kara is the perfect ambassador for us. Not only does she love wearing her glasses, but they also have played a vital role in her life in helping her with her dyslexia, through the use of coloured lenses. She is the ideal specs-wearing role model for young people.’
Every year, Specsavers scours the UK to find the girls and boys next door who look amazing in their specs. The competition is open to men and women aged 16 and over, who are current specs wearers or wear glasses for fashion purposes. Specsavers and top London agency MOT Models will be specs-spotting this summer in city centres up and down the country.
Regional stars will earn a place on the catwalk at Britain’s biggest spectacle fashion-fest in November, with the winner receiving a one year modelling contract with MOT Models, a two week premier, all-inclusive holiday for two in Barbados or St Lucia courtesy of Almond Resorts and Virgin Holidays with £250 worth of spending money, a makeover with TV celebrity hairdresser Andrew Barton, a year’s supply of skincare products from Simple, a fantastic goody bag including hair and skincare products, a £150 Specsavers eyecare voucher and the coveted Spectacle Wearer of the Year trophy.
To enter, visit any Specsavers store or log on to
www.specsavers.co.uk/competition or www.facebook.com/Specsavers.
http://www.specsavers.co.uk/
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HOW DO YOU DO… specs
Help him! The Bionic Man needs his micro fibre lens cloth or he will almost certainly not see the impending incoming Global Holocaust! What? It was just a fat fly and a bit of gravy. Well good job you incinerated it and saved us from that erm fly, cheers, in future Bionic Man can we just call you man.
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