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Dark circles, puffiness, fine lines and wrinkles…three major eye concerns that represent your soul in, let’s face it, a pretty poor fashion. You’re tired, you’re stressed, you’re old; it may not be true, but leave these issues unchecked and that’s the image you’re presenting to the world. So what can you?
Dark Circles
Unfortunately, there’s a whole bunch of factors which contribute to dark under eye circles. Sun exposure, lifestyle choices such as diet, lack of sleep, allergies, ageing, stress, even genetics. What are they though? Where do they come from, what do they want?
Short answer? They’re not really caused by anything, rather, they are always there, but the above "causes” work to highlight them. The area is dark because of weakened capillaries and translucent skin, both hereditary things. However, when you’re stressed or tired, your skin is paler and therefore the circles are emphasised. As for what they want…well the only discernable motive seems to be to make us look as unattractive and old as possible.
Puffiness and Swelling
Puffy eyes, or "bags” as they’re so attractively nicknamed, are also caused by numerous factors, however the big bad in this case is fluid retention. Now why on earth would your eyes retain fluid? Could be fluctuating hormone levels, an overly salty diet, hot weather, and of course there’s medication side effects.
Fine Lines & Wrinkles
Finally, there are the visible signs of ageing. Now I don’t about you, but this is the eye concern I fear, because although there’s small things you can do to conceal and reduce these frightful flaws, in the end, they just don’t go away. These are caused by things such as sun exposure, squinting, rubbing your eyes, and of course, just ageing naturally.
Bottom line is, the skin around our eye area is so delicate, and it just doesn’t produce moisture the way the rest of our skin does. The result? Skin that wrinkles easier and doesn’t bounce back into place.
So…
Now you know why your eyes are dark, puffy and wrinkled (although I hope you haven’t been afflicted by the whole trio), question is, what can you do to put things right?
Cold Compresses
Cucumber slices, a spoon, ice water on a swissper…get creative! The coolness causes the blood vessels under the skin to contract and blood circulation to increase, temporarily reducing the appearance of dark circles and reducing swelling.
Lifestyle changes
Reduce the amount of salt in your diet, the amount of caffeine and/or alcohol you drink, and naturally, quit smoking. Try to get a bit more sleep, and if you can’t, compensate for that pale skin with a dewy tinted moisturiser. Lifestyle and dietary changes can go a long way to helping your eyes be as bright and youthful as a bright and youthful thing.
Teabags
The caffeine and tannin in a used teabag (cooled of course) works to pull out and eliminate the fluid retained in the under eye area, putting an end to nasty puffiness and swelling. Little tip? Use a Green Tea bag. Not only do they have caffeine, but they’re rich in antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory properties. If you’re lucky, these antioxidants will also assist in fighting damaging free radicals that contribute to premature ageing.
Sun Protection
Rather than tackle lines and wrinkles when they happen, help prevent them by applying a broad spectrum sun screen daily.
Eye Cream
Lucky for you, there are literally hundreds of eye care and treatment products on the market designed to help target and prevent these eye concerns. You can pick one for a specific concern, like Medik8 Dark Circles (guess what that does?) or go for an all rounder like Skinstitut’s Eye Believe.
Although eye creams can give you targeted results, even just taking care to moisturise the eye area (gently of course) can go a long way to restoring moisture to the area and alleviating and preventing eye concerns.
Be Gentle!
Don’t pull at, rub, or stretch the eye area. It has inferior elasticity and will eventually just stop snapping back. Be gentle; take care to pat eye products on instead of rubbing them in.
Conceal
For situations when you need results now, a good concealer is your best bet. Fill in those lines, cover up those circles; just make sure you choose a tone that matches your skin, else you’ll look a little bit silly.
So, if eyes are the window to the soul, make sure your soul is saying nice things about you; namely, that your youthful, bright and full of life.
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