Why do bags appear under the eyes?
There are real bags under the eyes, and there are temporary ones. Real bags under the eyes are caused by the aging process. These bags are made of fat and are soft to the touch. In fact, there is always fat in the area around the eyes, it just slides lower and becomes more noticeable with age.
Temporary bags under the eyes can appear due to allergies, salty foods or alcohol. With allergies, the skin around the eyes swells and bags form. And beer and snacks remove water from the body so that the skin around the eyes becomes dry and hangs in the form of bags.
Restoring blood flow
If such simple methods do not save you from trouble, you should show persistence, perseverance and try to restore the impaired blood flow in the eye area. To do this, use products containing vitamins K and A. There are many of them in cabbage, citrus fruits, blueberries, horse chestnut, and cucumber. Therefore, feel free to include these products in your diet: you will get nothing but benefits. Washing only with cool or cold water improves blood circulation, as well as cold compresses on the eyelids and, as an alternative, ice cubes under the eyes in the morning. It is very good to immerse your face in dechlorinated water (tap water that has stood overnight in an open container) for a couple of minutes and open your eyes in it. Warm water should be avoided at any time of the year.
In general, cucumber is still considered the best tonic for the skin around the eyes! It contains many mineral salts, calcium, sodium and phosphorus, which helps it not only strengthen our cardiovascular system, but also give freshness to the skin and maintain its tone. Cucumber juice mixed with tomato and apple juice in equal proportions and with the addition of a clove of garlic helps improve blood composition and improves blood flow. Those who do not like to bother with home remedies or are afraid of nitrates can find cosmetic substitutes based on it.
Cucumber is followed by tea. The caffeine it contains has a tonic and stimulating effect on the central nervous system, enhances excitation processes in the cerebral cortex, and increases the time of extinction of conditioned reflexes. It increases mental and physical performance, stimulates the activity of the heart, weakens the effect of sleeping pills, dilates the blood vessels of the brain and the smallest capillaries. Therefore, tea infusion perfectly stimulates the skin and improves blood flow in the eye area. Try using a regular tea bag after brewing in the morning and you will see for yourself.
How to get rid of bags under the eyes?
Bags under the eyes that appear with age can only be removed by surgery - blepharoplasty. The fat pads are simply cut out, and the person looks younger.
You can deal with temporary bags under the eyes without a scalpel. Creams or gels for the skin around the eyes will help. They replenish the lack of water if you have eaten too much salt.
Here are the tools that can help:
- Clarette eye patches, 199 rubles - lifesavers that in 15 minutes will nourish the skin under the eyes with moisture and return you to a fresh look. Contains hyaluronic acid, glycerin and allantoin - classic skin moisturizers.
- Eveline Bio Hyaluron Expert roller gel filler for the skin around the eyes, 259 rubles - a convenient gel in the form of a roller. You can store it in the refrigerator to invigorate yourself in the morning with the cool touch of the roller to your skin.
- Face cream with hyaluronic acid Echoice, 419 rubles - a regular face cream, if it does not contain active ingredients, but only moisturizers, can also be applied under the eyes. For example, the main ingredient in this Korean cream is hyaluronic acid, which is safe for the skin around the eyes.
If bags under the eyes appear due to allergies, you will have to find out with your doctor where they come from.
Tinctures
Folk remedies also include herbal tinctures that eliminate bags under the eyes. Rosemary, string, chamomile, linden blossom, mint and arnica are ideal for preparing a decoction. A tablespoon of any of the above herbs is poured into a glass of boiling water and infused. From this infusion you need to make a warm compress, thanks to which the bags under the eyes will disappear. And if you do it constantly, they will stop appearing altogether.
Traditional methods for getting rid of puffiness under the eyes recommend birch or chamomile lotions. Pour 5 pieces of fresh birch leaves into a glass of mineral water and let it brew overnight. After this, lotions are made. Here's another way: mix a tablespoon of chamomile flowers with a teaspoon of green or black tea, pour a glass of boiling water over everything and let it brew. The compress is made warm.
If it is not clear why bags appear under the eyes, but you really want to remove them, then folk remedies will come in handy.
Of course, the bags can be disguised with cosmetics, but it is convenient to do this on young skin, since on more mature skin all the “efforts” will be visible. Folk remedies act slowly but surely, and allow you to remove bruises and bags. Our authors
Where did the bruises come from then? Is it due to lack of sleep?
No, sleep has nothing to do with it. Lack of sleep worsens skin quality, but does not affect the appearance of dark circles under the eyes. The main reasons for their occurrence are pigmentation due to the sun, allergies, or peculiarities of the blood supply to the area around the eyes and facial anatomy.
If you have had dark circles under your eyes all your life, there could be two reasons. Or it’s just the structure of the face - the shadow falls just under the eyes. Or the skin under the eyes is so thin that the vessels passing under it are visible - they darken the skin.
How to avoid?
If it has not yet reached the point of bruising, then it is worth taking some measures to prevent this. This is much easier than fixing an existing problem. The following steps must be followed:
Do special gymnastics
This will reduce the load on the extraocular muscles. The simplest exercise is “curtains”: you need to blink quickly for 2 minutes. Or the “big eyes” exercise: you need to close your eyes, then open them, and so on 10 times.
Rest
To make it easier for your muscles to work, just look to the side for five minutes or at least one.
Help yourself
Drink water
The liquid eliminates the main cause of dark circles - lack of oxygen. It accelerates its spread throughout the body. And if it is active water, then the energy will also increase.
Go out into the fresh air
This is important because outdoor air is enriched with oxygen, unlike that found indoors.
What to do with dark circles under the eyes, how to remove them?
Decorative cosmetics
A simple but temporary way to hide dark circles under the eyes is concealer. A good concealer shouldn't feel on your skin, smudge, or look different from your complexion. Also, pay attention to colored concealers: beige ones mask bruises with a purple undertone, and products with a pinker shade will remove gray circles under the eyes.
- Concealer TF COSMETICS Master Skin, 159 rubles - it is praised by Katya Slyadneva, the creator of the Beauty channel for 300. The girl’s reviews are always detailed, they are accompanied by photos and tips on application. According to the blogger, this concealer hides all traces of fatigue, dry skin and pigmentation. The pluses are the price and 5 shades to choose from.
- Lamel Concealer Super Smooth, 142 rubles - another budget concealer for disguising dark circles under the eyes. The beige shade will neatly disguise them.
- Concealer Catrice Liquid Camouflage, 361 rubles - it has 13 shades, you can choose it for any skin. There are shades for dark-skinned girls and for white-skinned ones. It fits well, does not get caught in the folds of the eyelid and does not smear.
Care products
Try to regularly care for the area around your eyes using special products. They also know how to lighten the skin under the eyes and can give a long-term effect.
- Andalou Naturals Brightening Serum for the Skin Around the Eyes, RUB 1,176 - This serum contains vitamin C, which protects the skin from sun rays, and also whitens it and adds radiance.
- Aravia Professional Lifting Eye Cream, 599 rubles - this cream contains niacinamide and moisturizing components. Together they will relieve the delicate skin under the eyes from dryness and make it brighter.
- Super Beezy eye patches, 890 rubles - 60 eye pads are soaked with skin-brightening and skin-renewing niacinamide and vitamin C. Plus, you will see results faster than with a serum. You need to keep the patches under your eyes for 20-30 minutes to see yourself at your best.
- Sunscreen cream stick Clinique Targeted protection stick, 1,239 rubles - even the most delicate parts of the body need to be protected from the sun. These are your ears, lips, nose and eye area. And since the area under the eyes darkens due to UV rays that hit the defenseless area, you should take care of it. A small stick with SPF 35 will help to do this.
- Simpli Beautiful soothing gel for the skin around the eyes, 459 rubles - a small 30 ml jar contains a mixture of moisturizing ingredients and caffeine. It is believed that it can affect dark circles under the eyes and remove them.
- Yeouth eye cream, 1,449 rubles - retinol can be used not only to rejuvenate the face, but also to combat fine wrinkles and dark circles around the eyes. This remedy is more powerful than other acids, so the effect can be achieved faster. But you need to use retinol correctly: start with 1-2 times a week, moisturize the skin with cream after application, and apply cream with SPF to your face during the day.
Special procedures and operations
If cosmetics and care do not give you the desired result, you can resort to cosmetic procedures - many of them have proven their effectiveness. For example, laser correction of dark circles under the eyes. Injections with hyaluronic acid also effectively help remove dark circles under the eyes.
A radical method is blepharoplasty. When excess fat is removed through a small incision under the eyes and the skin is tightened. If there is venous congestion due to bags under the eyes, then after blepharoplasty the dark circles will disappear. This procedure can be done not only after 40–50 years, but also earlier, if it is really necessary. But it is better to consult a medical specialist about any intervention on the face, be it laser or surgery, and weigh the pros and cons.
