Things are getting a bit shady on the TCU campus with the arrival of the Shady Peeps sunglass line on campus.

Shady Peeps representatives Kalla Kline, a sophomore nursing major, and Michael Roy, a junior entrepreneurial management major, partnered with the Washington-based company this past summer to bring the sunglass line to Cowtown this year.

The Shady Peeps company does more than sell sunglasses though. Roy said the company donates to a variety of charities. Recently part of the Shady Peeps team went to Africa to help with the Grace’s Children Center in Kenya.

“Caleb and Jason [the CFO and CEO of Shady Peeps respectively] started the company because he wanted to work with other charities,” Roy said. “He’s really into kind of what Toms does so he has companies that are into getting third world countries shoes and clean water because he already owns three other companies and saw an ability to really use and give more money back to them.”

Kline said the experience has been positive.

“I’m a nursing major so I’m just doing it and it’s fun but the people are really great and the company is really young,” Kline said.

“Because I’m an entrepreneurial management major I saw a big opportunity because they were only in 10 schools at the time and they were expanding to six or seven more,” Roy said. “Being in that major I said ‘I really need to get into this and this company is going to blow up’.”

The sunglasses are sold at Flash on University and The Varsity in Bluebonnet Circle.

“People love these style of sunglasses and I knew it was going to be something great and it was really starting to be,” Roy said

The sunglasses are sold in purple with gray polarized lenses and gray with purple polarized lenses.

“The gray ones are really popular for football games because they’re really fun but the purple ones are more wear around for any day and anytime,” Kline said.

Roy said his studies at TCU have helped him with his work at Shady Peeps and he sees himself with the company in the future.

“They’ve [TCU] helped me recognize the opportunity not only finding this job and helping me recognize it was a good opportunity to join this but developing business strategies and how to be professional when approaching a vendor,” Roy said.

Day to day operations for the two students include maintaining the TCU Shady Peeps Facebook page and contacting vendors.

Students can purchase Shady Peeps at the link here and can get a 10% discount by using the promo code: gofrogs.