Avoid rubbing and pressing
Avoid rubbing and pressing
Rubbing your eyes vigorously irritates the skin and can break the tiny blood capillaries, causing dark circles to appear. When removing the shadow and mask from your eyes, do it by sliding the cotton, without squeezing, until the makeup disappears.
Moisturizing
Moisturizing
Nourishes and hydrates the skin under the eyes to keep it fresh and with good color.
Olay Ultimate Eye Contour Cream, € 29.99
Always with sunglasses
Always with sunglasses
It is not about hiding them, but about preventing them. With glasses you protect the skin from the contours of aging and prevent dark circles from darkening due to the sun's rays.
Just in case, use contour with SPF 50+
Just in case, use contour with SPF 50+
To protect your eyes from the sun and thus prevent aging, try using an eye cream with an SPF 50+ factor.
Lancaster Sun Control, € 33.50
Are you allergic?
Are you allergic?
Allergies and food intolerances sometimes cause the eyelids to darken. The first thing to do is treat the allergy, see what causes it, avoid contact with the allergen and follow medical treatment.
Rinse with vitamin C
Rinse with vitamin C
Vitamin C fights dark circles through several mechanisms: it stimulates circulation, favors collagen synthesis and reduces melanin accumulation, lightening them. You can take it in capsules.
What you eat influences
What you eat influences
Dark circles often appear when there is a deficiency of vitamin B12 and antioxidants. Therefore, include a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet. Vitamin B12 is found in meat, eggs, dairy, or fish.
Do you need vitamin K?
Do you need vitamin K?
This vitamin is key to reducing purplish dark circles. By intervening in blood clotting, it promotes circulation and helps prevent blood from pooling under the eyes, darkening dark circles. Include very green vegetables in your diet such as broccoli, cabbage, spinach …
Erase them with home remedies
Erase them with home remedies
Try Grandma's old remedy: potatoes! They contain the enzyme polyphenol oxidase, which slows the formation of melanin and lightens the skin. Place a slice of raw potato on the lower eyelid and leave it for 15 minutes.
Another remedy is to place two slices of zucchini instead of potato or put 2 spoons in the fridge for 15 minutes and then put them on your eyes.
The best concealer
The best concealer
Choose it to be a shade or two lighter than your skin, but don't overdo it or it may look like you're wearing a white mask. For more mature skins, light concealers are used that do not further mark wrinkles. If your dark circles are purplish, choose a more yellow or peach concealer.
Long-lasting concealer
Long-lasting concealer
24Ore Perfect by Deborah Milano, € 8.95
Anti-bag massages
Anti-bag massages
Lightly press your eyes with your palms. Then tap your fingers all the way around, and massage your temples in a circular motion with your thumbs.
100% natural
100% natural
To decongest and revitalize the eye contour, use a smoothing product, like this one from Weleda, with natural ingredients.
Weleda smoothing eye contour, € 20.20
The new treatments
The new treatments
Brown circles can be treated with a CO2 laser, which renews the pigmented surface layers of the epidermis. For purple dark circles, carboxytherapy is effective and involves injecting carbon dioxide gas, which causes vasodilation of the blood capillaries.
And for wrinkles and bags …
And for wrinkles and bags …
For a perfect, rejuvenated look, check out our gallery on how to combat wrinkles and bags under the eyes.
How many times have you looked at yourself in the mirror and wanted to leave the house with your sunglasses on to hide your dark circles? Possibly it has happened to all of us at some time, especially those days when you have slept little, have drunk excessively or have not been able to get a good night's rest.
Keep in mind that the skin around the eyes is the most fragile and delicate on the face, so it must be cared for with special care.
Causes of its appearance
Dark circles are a much more common trait than we think and the result of an accumulation of melanin under the eyes that in many cases is accompanied by inflammation and sagging. Depending on the person, dark circles take one tone or another. The most common is the bluish-grayish hue, which is the result of poor blood and lymphatic circulation.
The lack of iron is one of the factors that contribute to the formation of dark circles, as this deficiency results in poor oxygenation of the tissues, a fact that favors the creation of clots in the blood vessels that exist in the eye area.
In some families, dark circles are hereditary: they have been passed down from generation to generation. These people therefore have particularly thin skin around the eyes.
On the other hand, rubbing your eyes a lot irritates the sensitive skin around them and can intensify dark circles. In addition, the nerves, stress and spending several hours in front of the computer load the eyes a lot and can also cause its appearance.
Eliminate those dark circles
Concealing them or even attenuating them is not that difficult. If you are tired of looking like a panda bear, check our gallery and discover the cares and treatments that can make you look younger and, above all, more awake.
