11 Ways To Treat Dark Eye Circles
Have you been troubling with dark eye circles and desperately finding ways to treat them? Do you need to use an under-eye concealer most of the time?
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on expensive eye care, let me share with you on what are the common causes for having dark eye circles and their possible ways to treat them.
Under-eye circles are special conditions and do treat them with care.
1. The darkness of the circle may due from a shadow cast by the eye bag.
Do a test : Try push on one of the bags and see if the darkness disappear. If yes, it means that the darkness of the circle is not inherent to the skin.
Possible treatment : If your eye bags is very prominent, you may consider to surgically remove the solid fat pad.
2. The thinning skin around the eye area becomes more and more thinner and transparent over time.
Possible treatment : Building up the thickness of the skin could help to lessen the transparency. Using a eye cream with vitamin C and vitamin A to jump-start collagen content and thicken the skin around the eye areas.
3. Due to the fragility of blood vessels.
Possible treatment : Apply with vitamin K, it may heal the broken capillaries to prevent them from leaking blood into the under-eye region, although the effect will probably be very modest at best.
4. Deposits of dark pigment cells from chronic inflammation.
Possible treatment : A fading cream that breaks down dark pigment discoloration will help most. Make sure the fading cream is non-irritating, otherwise it can make the problem worse. Bleaching agents like kojic and ascorbic acids are said to lighten dark pigments and green tea extract can soothe redness and inflammation.
5. The lack of fat under the skin that make it less transparent and may create a hollowed-out look in under-eye area.
Possible treatment : This is the harder problem to solve, you may use a botanical skin faders or get a professional doctor to inject fillers. The second option will be the last resort, do make sure the doctor is experienced in this area.
6. Unhealthy lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking too much caffeine and over-indulging in alcohol.
Possible treatment : Needless to say, quit all the bad habits and start a healthy diet and lifestyle. Nicotine, alcohol and caffeine can cause the capillaries to leak iron and blood cells into the under-eye area, giving it a dark appearance.
7. Not sleeping enough.
Possible treatment : Getting enough sleep is very important and essential for a good-looking skin.
8. Nose or sinuses are inflamed and congested, fluid accumulates under the eyes in the fat pads.
Possible treatment : You may need to see an ENA specialist for sinus condition. You may also treat it with products which contain caffeine and cucumber extract that temporarily tighten the skin and liberate trapped fluid.
9. Result of hyperpigmentation, areas of the skin that are permanently darker than the rest of the face due to sun damage and hormonal fluctuations.
Possible treatment : The solution is to get an eye cream which contained skin thickening ascorbic acid plus kojic acid, another lightening agent.
10. Bad circulation.
Possible treatment : Go for some tapping eye massage twice a day to improve circulation.
11. Heredity allergies and lack of vitamins.
Possible treatment : Daily dose of vitamin, calcium and magnesium, allergy meds and eat less salt.
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8 Comments
michael c weir
June 19th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I am growing a solution that removes the bags under the eye. I have pictures that show bags under the eye disappearing in less than a month.
Shirleen
June 20th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Interesting! Could you send me the details to shirleen@womenlovebeauty.com, so that I could post them and share with the rest? thanks.
Sauda
October 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Hi, my dark circles is getting worse day by day..currently m using an eye cream..rosehip eye cream…but tat does not help me..any tips to atleast reduce them abit? really apprereciate…thanks.
Sauda
Shirleen
October 21st, 2009 at 12:27 am
Hi Sauda,
In fact, in general rosehip is a good emollient with antioxidant benefit that gives good moisture to the skin hence it doesn’t help on dark eye circles at all.
Firstly, you really have to analysis what is the cause of your problem. If you have healthy lifestyles that include sufficient sleep, doesn’t smoke and drink and yet the dark eye circles are still prominent then it probably may due to bad blood circulation, sinus, skin thinning or dark pigments formation.
You may want to try using a good 5% L-ascorbic acid serum to help boost the collagen, reduce dark pigments and increase the thickness of the skin hence lessen the transparency.
You can also treat your eye area with IPL (or laser) that help to boost collagen and lighten pigmentation. It is an effective and yet risky treatment, hence make sure you get a doctor instead of a beautician to perform the treatment on the delicate eye areas. Few treatments are required to see result.
You will need to be patient when treating dark eye circles and I strongly advise you to do ’six’ point massage daily to improve the circulation. Using your middle finger and press on the six points and they are the corner right, corner left and middle of the eye brow and below eye area. In long run, you will definitely see improvement.
Sauda
October 21st, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Hi Shirleen,
Really appreciate all the advises n info u have given me..I dont drink or smoke..but yes i dont get enough sleep…i try to drink plenty of water to make it up…i will try to do the six point massage everyday from now on..Btw, can u recommend me any brand with the acid serum u mention above? Laser is out for me..Thanks.
Regards
Sauda
Shirleen
October 21st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Hi Sauda,
Drinking plenty of water is good but try not to drink too much after 9pm because it will create water retention hence your eyes will look puffy the next morning.
In fact I’m now using Sisley 5% L-ascorbic acid serum, it’s real good but quite pricey though. You can also try SkinCeuticals Eye Gel AOX+. It combines 5% L-ascorbic acid with ferulic acid to provide antioxidant benefits for the eye area.
Violett
November 17th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Hi!
In the aforementioned point 5 regarding botanical faders, may I ask what exactly are those?
Any good product in the market that accomplishes this function?
Thanks!
Shirleen
November 18th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Hi Violett,
Skin fader, also known as skin lightener, help to lighten skin tone. You may want to try Alpha Hydrox Spot Light Target Skin Lightener. I have not try this product before but I have done some researches and it has good reviews. Not too sure if is available in Singapore.
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