HOW TO GET RID OF PUFFY EYES & DARK CIRCLES
Your eyes can be your biggest beauty asset. However, the delicate skin under your eyes can be one of the first places to show signs of ageing as well as stress and fatigue. Would you like to say goodbye to dark circles by pampering your eye area? Discover our advice and tips to fight against dark circles and regain a glowing and rejuvenated look.
Why Does Under-Eye Skin Require Special Care?
Skin under the eyes is much thinner than skin on the rest of the face and more sensitive to harsh chemicals, UV rays, and the environment. It also thins faster than other skin. Because thin skin loses its elasticity more quickly, the skin under the eyes is one of the first places to show signs of ageing, dark circles or puffiness. As a result, under-eye contour requires particular care and attention to prevent or reduce the amount of eye puffiness and dark circles.
Different Types Of Dark Circles
After a short night's sleep, you may wake up with dark circles. As the skin around the eye is extremely thin, it easily reveals signs of fatigue. In this case, the blood struggles to circulate in this area, it stagnates and produces purple or blue tone under the eyes.
There is also second category of dark circles which mainly affects Mediterranean skin. In this case, the halos are brown or golden in colour – this is a result from an overproduction of melanin and often appear in people with a family predisposition.
Choose The Right Eye Care Product For You
Identifying the type of dark circles you are experiencing is good, but it's only the first step. It is then a question of find products to fit your needs.The good news is, whatever type of dark circles you have, L'OCCITANE offers specific treatments to help reduce these marks and restore radiance to your eye area.
To combat vascular dark circles, use treatments enriched with the best decongestant active ingredients like escin or caffeine for example. For dark circles, it is more suitable to use a treatment enriched with depigmenting active ingredients such as Vitamin C...
Whatever your type of dark circles, do not hesitate to make small circular movements from the inside to the bottom and outside the eye. When applying your treatment, they will help decongest the area and regain a glowing look!
How To Reduce Puffiness & Swelling
Don’t panic! As for dark circles, you can adopt a few small reflexes and your puffiness will decrease visibly. Use treatments containing an active known to revive the microcirculation and do not hesitate to associate it with a massage. You should also know, short term remedies can come in handy:
Apply a cool compress - You want something that is cool to the touch but not overly cold. Lie down on your back and cover your eyes with cool wet tea bags or cucumber slices, which contain antioxidants that reduce irritation.
Calm eyes with Chamomile Tea remedy - Boil chamomile flowers with purified tap water. Strain and put the tea in the refrigerator until cold. Soak cotton wool pads in the cooled tea and place over the eye area for 15 minutes while lying down to soothe the eyes.
Massage - Lightly massaging the pressure points around the eye can improve the effectiveness of your eye care. See our how-to guide on massaging the eye area below!
Our Eye Treatments
Nature is full of assets that can stimulate and tone the eye area, to illuminate the eyes and fight against the visible signs of ageing. It is at the heart of this nature that we draw our ingredients to offer you treatments adapted to your needs. Formulated without perfumes, our eye treatments take care of your eyes
IMMORTELLE PRECIOUS EYE BALM
This eye treatment helps to fight the signs of ageing. Enriched with organic Immortelle essential oil, it helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles around the eyes. Specifically added to fight dark circles and puffiness, Escin and Caffeine will help to fade them effectively. The Centifolia rose floral water which is included is known to bring softness. Finally, Shea butter intensely nourishes the eyes. As a result of using this product, the skin should appear smoother and after a month, your eyes will be visibly younger and above all, less tired.
IMMORTELLE DIVINE EYE CONTOUR
This anti-aging treatment is also designed with essential oil of organic Immortelle. It is enriched with beneficial vegetable oils that nourish the skin and has buckwheat wax integrated into the formula to help reduce puffiness. This gel-cream texture is fresh and smooth and your eyes will be sublimated in the blink of an eye.
IMMORTELLE DIVINE EYE BALM
Adopt this balm for the eye area as soon as the first visible signs of ageing appear. Its advantage? It can be used as daily or as a mask twice a week. Enriched with Shea butter and vegetable oils, this product will leave the delicate skin around the eyes is intensely nourished. This rich and melting balm allows a radiant look. The Immortelle essential oil complex and mix of hyaluronic acid will help reduce visible signs of ageing. When using daily, wrinkles and fine lines should be visibly satisfied, and the signs of fatigue lessened.
OVERNIGHT RESET EYE SERUM
Our Overnight Reset Eye Serum is here to give you a more rested, youthful look. This eye serum helps diminish the appearance of dark circles and puffiness while visibly reducing signs of fatigue.
This under eye cream pairs perfectly with our Overnight Reset Serum for the best beauty sleep ever. Seriously, this night time power duo is what dreams are made of!
How To Keep Your Eyes At Their Best
As you can see, it is essential to pamper your eyes in order to fight dark circles over time. For this, L'OCCITANE advises you to adopt a daily beauty routine. Combined with a restful sleep, it ensures a resplendent look.
1. ALWAYS REMOVE YOUR MAKEUP
This step is essential to allow your skin to breathe. Remove traces of makeup and impurities morning and evening using a product suited to your eye area and ensure use of cotton balls when removing the eye make-up (avoid excess tugging and pulling).
2. APPLY YOUR TREATMENT
On a clean skin, apply the eye treatment you have chosen according to their properties. The equivalent of a grain of rice is sufficient. To obtain visible results, we recommend that you repeat this gesture morning and evening. The product should be evenly spread over the entire area around the eye, from the brow bone to the top of the cheekbone. The action of the eye treatment is optimized when you lightly massage the area. Make circular movements to penetrate the product and activate blood circulation in the area around the eye.
3. CAMOUFLAGE THE CIRCLES
If you want to cover your dark circles, many makeup products can help to conceal. Corrector stick, concealer or complexion corrector, fluid or in powder form, these cosmetics offer high coverage and a natural effect. Depending on the colour of your dark circles, you can choose specific correctors: for dark circles, use treatments with orange pigments, they will help you to hide them in a stroke of the brush!
