eyebag solutions

Ice is the best thing. No foolin'.

Anyways, I ended up getting some Clinique eye cream to put on before bedtime. In the mornings, I put some Benefits concealer/cream on. Also, I've gotten into the routine of using face lotion every day and night. I think mine are looking a lot better.

i'm not sure how you feel about concealer, but yves st. laurent touche eclat is genius for those days when you see a freshly-dug corpse staring back at you from the mirror.

Eye cream: don't drag it across the skin, pat it in with your ring finger.

apparently cold potato slices placed on your eyelids is a remedy

Hemorrhoid cream is supposed to really work well for this. !!!

Hemorrhoid cream also shrinks and takes the redness out of pimples or so I've been told.

also shrinks needle marks. i read that in dear abby. seriously!

Bitch stealing my name and my advice. Fuck her corpse and the man-lady who's writing the column under her name.

eyebag solutions!

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cold spoons!

this stuff!

http://www.kiehls.com/Facial-Fuel-Eye-De-Puffer/804,default,pd.html

ENBB, i was actually thinking of buying that kiehls product but for some reason it's not available in the UK (everything else in the range seems to be). there are some reasonably cheap on ebay from the US, do you recommend? i LOVE the facial fuel range, the firming serum is amazing and when i have used the the moisturiser people have actually commented on how good my skin looks. it's so expensive over here though.

It's pretty good but you are right about it being expensive. Even here it us p steep. A friend of mine gave it to me and while I like it, I don't know if I would pay that much for it myself. It looks like boots do a comparable product that I assume is cheaper and might be worth trying out.

ah, the anti-fatigue eye stick? will definitely check that out. thanks.

preparation h

or really, anything with witch hazel

kind of sceptical about whether the prep H thing is wise. if it was a good thing to put that around your eye the beauty companies would have exploited that angle already making an close equivalent in a 20ml tube for $s.

x-posts - Yeah that one. It looks sort of similar.

x-post beauty companies do! A ton of "eye creams" have the same active ingredient

Well, as the historical one. Looks like prep h switched to phenylephrine, which would be slightly different as it's just a vasoconstrictor

what was the previous active ingredient, mh?

varies based on the product and area sold:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparation_H

Preparation H made the area around my eyes so shiny that I just washed it off rather than continue my dark circles-reducing experiment.

tbh sleeping more helps

Preparation H would help with bags but not circles as far as I understand it. Sleep does help circles in some instances but others are hereditary.

I was unaware there was a difference between bags and circles. This convo may be too sophisticate for me.

sophisticated

bags refers to swelling, circles is coloration

it's not swelling exactly it's a little pocket of fat.

lipo

it's not swelling exactly it's a little pocket of fat.

a tiny lump around the eyelid on top or bottom?

i have these, i got conjuntivitis about 2/3 years ago and since then at some point i got a small bump under my right eye and other smaller swollen areas.

doc said it was blepharitis last time i was there, some arduous cleaning regime involving sterilised water and cotton wool was recommended, hard to find the time though really, plus like all these things no idea how i'd do it in work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blepharitis

not sure about this diagnosis as same doc was wrong about what i actually went for, was a shit standard nhs locum type, but it's a possibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunctivitis also worth a look

no that's something else i think? i mean your traditional eyebag is like a small pocket of fat although eyebag removal surgery is called Blepharoplasty so maybe we are talking variations of the same thing.

could be different...basically what i get is if i run my finger below my eye (and have had them on the eyelid above my eye too) i can feel a small bubble sort of.

I was under the impression that the Preparation H thing was a joke (shrink your hemorrhoids=shrink the bags underneath your eyes) that got out of control.

prep h contains witch hazel. witch hazel reduces swelling. people have swelling under the eyes. it's not that hilarious

Not all of them do--the medicated wipes have pretty much nothing but witch hazel. And I didn't think the joke was funny, either, but that's what I've been told.

I have a rather interesting friend who had in his travel bag: prescription pharmaceuticals, multiple types of cologne, prep h for undereye use. Oddly he had no aspirin so it was useless when he had a headache.

if the 'swelling' is actually pockets of fat, can't help feeling that witch hazel ain't gonna do much good, or people would be rubbing it all over their cellulite (is cellulite still a thing?)

yeah if its fat you're going to have to lose fat by traditional means, you can't apply something to fat and remove it that way

I believe you want the fat to be there, as loss of facial fat and muscle tone is what leads to sag and wrinkle, other than skin aging.

it doesn't sound like he does

i had a prep h gel w/ witch hazel once (not the ointment; bought in desperate attempt to reduce eye bags the night before a job interview) and i don't know that it does much of anything but leave a film on yr face. it feels nice and cool but i don't know that there's any noticeable change in puffiness.

maybe i will try this kiehls stick. i think i had the eye alert and it was meh... but if ppl have experienced miracles w/ the stick, i could risk it for $18.

tza I can not imagine you having any below-eye noticeable issues ^_^

OMG this makes Skinner's mom in Simpsons saying "I'll be right down, I'm just putting on my witchhazel" totally gross! I always thought she was putting it on her face.

there's fat around the eye whether you are fat or thin. if you have eyebags the fat has moved down past the point where the arrow is in this diagram to form a little pocket under the eye. it's hereditary usually and not really anything to do with the general distribution of fat in the body.

http://archfaci.ama-assn.org/content/early/2011/06/14/archfacial.2011.42/F3.small.gif

yes but fat is not puffiness and can't be fixed via topical solutions or applications of cold spoons, etc

puffiness refers to swelling

yes i know but mine are pretty small in spite of how much i think about them! a tightening would have some effect in reducing the appearance of them.

btw you're kinda rude.

no way im a total friend

i know the facial exercise women are kinda crazy but i'm totally getting results on the eyebags from carole maggio's facercise.

I found that Boots no 7 protect & perfect eyecream (you can get it at Target) works p good and is relatively inexpensive, as eyecreams go.