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How Maui Jim Lens Customization Works

Due to some confusion around how Maui Jim customization works, let's explain exactly how it works.


Firstly, customization here means you can choose any lens color for any frame. This is for non-prescription only.


You can only do this on the Maui Jim website. Third-party websites or Amazon won't have this option. A dealer can also do this for you, but it's through the same mechanism. Right under the lens and frame information near the price, there is a button that says "Customize with MyMaui".


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It is nice that this option is available at no added cost. I wish other brands did this standard too.


Even though you can get any color, it gets complicated when it comes to what lens material you will get, and it can make a big difference with some lenses, especially the Blue Hawaii.

All Maui Jim frames come with a selection of stock lens choices, either Superthin Glass, MauiBrilliant, MauiPure, Ultra (which is new), or polycarbonate. These are the ones you will see on any listing before you choose customization. The difference between them is beyond the scope of this post; that's for another time.


All Maui Jim custom lenses are MauiBrilliant. So, if you see the stock lenses are Glass or MauiPure, if you choose a color that is not one of the stock choices, then the material will change to MauiBrilliant. However, if you merely switch frame colors but use a lens that is a stock choice, you will still get the stock lens material.


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Customization Menu

For example, if you are looking at the Kanaio Coast, it has Neutral Grey, Blue Hawaii, MAUIGreen, and HCL Bronze as stock lenses that are all glass. If you wanted to switch the matte black frame with the matte tortoise one, but keep the Neutral Grey lenses, you would get the Glass lenses. But if you wanted the MauiSunrise lens, you would get that in MauiBrilliant.


I personally got the Aeko, which comes with MauiPure lenses, with the HT lens, which then came in MauiBrilliant.


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My custom order

There is an exception to this that makes it a bit complicated. If Maui Jim once had the model with a different lens color in Glass or MauiPure but no longer sells that, they will use it when someone customizes the lens in that color.


In my case, the Maui Jim Castles used to come with MauiRose lenses, but no longer does. I customized the frame with the MauiRose lenses, and it came in glass, not MauiBrilliant, because they still had those lenses in supply. How would you know that in advance? You would have to ask Maui Jim, there is no other way to know. I do not even know if they still have the MauiRose available in Glass for the Castles. I had to ask.


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And there's more to this as well. If a lens comes standard with gradient lenses but you customize it, it will come in full tint with bi-gradient lenses in MauiBrilliant. So if you get the Mavericks, whose non-mirrored options are all gradient, with MauiRose lenses, they will come in full tint and switch from MauiPure to MauiBrilliant.


If you aren't sure which lens you are interested in, I review all Maui Jim lenses here.


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