Don’t accept dark under eye circles as your fate. Fight back with some common sense approaches that can refresh your appearance and make you feel confident again.
Step One: Determine and Treat the Cause
Those dark circles under your eyes can appear for many reasons.
- Genetics can often determine your propensity for developing those irritating bags. The skin under our eye thins as we age, allowing the capillaries that lie directly under the skin to become visible.
- Allergy shiners look like dark circles under the eye. Aside from bright red ears, those dark bags under the eye are a huge clue that you may be allergic to something in your environment or diet. Because being congested also causes dark circles to appear, work to keep inflammation down and drainage up.
- You might be dehydrated. That’s right—dehydration is a common cause of dark under eye circles. Be sure to drink 8 glasses of water a day and avoid caffeine; it’s a diuretic that can leave your body thirsty.
- We all think of exhaustion as the main cause of eye bags. It’s not the main cause, but it is one of them. Don’t fool yourself—you need more than those 5 hours of sleep you swear is all you need. Sleep and mental health experts agree that most adults need 8 hours of sleep a night for optimal physical and mental health.
Step Two: Disguise the Bags
If you still see dark circles under your eyes after dealing with all of the causes, it’s time to whip out the concealer. Don’t be tempted to use an ultra light shade; you will swap bags for a frightening ring of white. Use a yellow or gold toned concealer or a shade that is one tone down from your foundation color. Don’t use mascara on your lower lashes. As the day progresses, your eye makeup will smudge and add to the problem.
Eye bags don’t need to be the bane of your existence. By attending to the causes and using makeup judiciously, you will successfully defeat your eye bag enemy.