Welcome to

Hey Peeps

Sunglasses for small peeps who don't do gentle

Category 3 lenses, frames that bend instead of snapping, and the strap, pouch and shipping already in the price.

How Hey Peeps started

The good ones all came with a catch

By the time you had added a strap, a case and shipping, the affordable pair was not affordable anymore.

I am a Brisbane mum of two small kids, and I know how fast a day out turns into a UV crisis. Australia has the highest melanoma rate in the world and UV that regularly hits extreme. Yet I kept seeing kids at beaches and parks with no eye protection at all, or wearing cheap sunnies that had snapped by lunchtime.

So after maternity leave I skipped the return to the nine to five and built Hey Peeps instead. Category 3 lenses in flexible TPEE frames that survive being stuffed in nappy bags, dropped from prams, and tested by siblings.

Everything is included. A pouch, a cleaning cloth, a free strap for the 0 to 2s, and the shipping. The sun is serious. We just don't think buying sunnies has to be.

Now go and get yourself a snack. You've earned it.

Celeste
Celeste and her daughter standing in shallow water, both in sunglasses
Founder, and chief tester of every frame on real, wriggling toddlers.

The range

Because the best sunnies are the ones they will actually keep on

Round, rectangular, keyhole, wayfarer and heart frames, in a colour range that runs from goes-with-everything black to a yellow you can spot across a playground. Two size ranges, 0 to 2 and 3 to 7, because a frame that slides down a toddler's nose gets thrown out of the pram.

Not sure which pair? Take the style quiz.

  • 19Colours

    From matte black to bright pink, with a stripe and a couple of two-tones in between.

  • 5Shapes

    Round, rectangular, wayfarer, keyhole and heart.

  • Independently lab tested

    0Exceptions

    All eleven lens models measured against AS/NZS 1067.1:2016, the Australia and New Zealand sunglasses standard.

  • 99.9%+

    Of UVA & UVB blocked, measured on both lenses of every model.

    We don't ask you to take our word for it

    Most sunglasses carry a UV claim. Ours has a number behind it. Every lens was read individually in an independent laboratory, not copied off a supplier's spec sheet. All eleven models came back Category 3 and passed the standard's coverage test for children's sunglasses.

    Testing covers the lenses on the samples submitted: transmittance, filter category and coverage area.

What every pair comes with

No upsells, no extras at the checkout

  • Category 3 lensesFor the harsh Aussie sun, every day of the year
  • Blocks 99.9%+ of UVA & UVBMeasured in a lab, not taken off a spec sheet
  • PolarisedCuts the glare off water, sand and wet roads
  • Flexible TPEEBends instead of snapping when it gets sat on
  • Reusable paper mailerA second strip for a return should you need one, otherwise 100% recyclable
  • Pouch and clothIn the box, not an add to cart
  • Free strap, ages 0 to 2The only reason they stay on a baby
  • Free shippingAustralia wide, on every order
A Hey Peeps paper mailer held in two hands

Packaging

Packaged like we give a damn

Your sunnies arrive in a HeroHex mailer: FSC certified kraft paper, lined with paper honeycomb instead of plastic bubble wrap. Paper the whole way through, so the empty one goes straight into your kerbside recycling.

There is a second adhesive strip inside. Peel, seal, send something of your own, or recycle it.

Australian kids deserve clean beaches to play on. That starts with the small decisions, like what you ship a pair of sunglasses in.

We're big on happy faces around here:

A happy heart makes the face cheerful.
Proverbs 15:13

Right, let's find their pair

Six quick questions, about a minute, and we will match their age, their face and their personality to the right frames.