The Admirer · Heart-shaped Pit Vipers

5 reasons The Admirer is the pair every Aussie will be wearing this summer

By Caro Brauer   Updated November 5, 2026

Read this BEFORE you buy another pair of servo sunglasses.

1. Heart-shaped lenses. Make love with your eyes.

The Admirer is the heart-shaped Pit Viper, and it does exactly what it looks like it does. Every barbie, festival and questionable wedding dance floor this summer is about to get a lot more romantic. Your mates will stare. Strangers will stare. That's the point.

2. Built for the party. Then the one after that. And the one after that.

Cute doesn't mean fragile. The Admirer is a proper Pit Viper: tough polycarbonate lenses, a frame built to take a beating, and rubberised no-slip touchpoints so they stay on your face when everything else is going sideways. They're sunglasses that can be sat on, shoved in pockets and dropped off the tinny, and still turn up to the next party.

3. Real protection for a real Aussie summer

The Australian sun doesn't care how good you look. The Admirer blocks 100% of UVA and UVB with Category 3 lenses, and depending on the colourway you can go HDPV, polarised or photochromic. Translation: you can actually see the cricket, the surf and the bloke waving at you from across the beach.

4. 13 colourways. Zero chill.

There's an Admirer for every personality disorder. Go dark with The Blacking Out, go full sundowner with The Moontower, go bush with The Mangrove, or go completely off the rails with The Cowabunga, The Rainbow Jellies or The Dragonfruit Jellies. Buying one pair is a choice. Buying three is a lifestyle.

5. Lifetime warranty, free returns, and right now they're on sale

Every pair comes with a lifetime warranty, returns are free in Australia for 30 days, and The Admirer is rated 4.9 stars on pitviper.au. The only risk is how many compliments you'll have to deal with. And for BFCM, it's part of up to 50% off sitewide, so there's never been a cheaper way to fall in love.