| Dark Circles Under Eyes
Dark Circles Under Eyes have several possible causes:
In many people, the skin of the lower eyelids is very thin, and the dark that you see is the venous blood in the veins underneath that thin skin. No good treatment is available for that condition, because we don't know how to coax the veins to carry less blood. Sometimes the Dark Circles Under Eyes are actually excess pigment in the skin of the lower eyelids, as if the skin had a huge freckle that covered much of the lower eyelid skin. You can tell if that's what is going on by stretching the lower eyelid skin down and to the side, and carefully comparing the color of the skin to the color of the adjacent cheek skin. When pigment is the problem, it can often be treated with topical bleaching creams (not hugely effective) or with a skin peel, which tends to pull excess pigment out of the skin. The Dark Circles Under Eyes can just be shadow. With time, the lower eyelids usually develop little bulges, which represent the fat that cushions the eyeball pushing forward.
The fat bulge makes it look as though there were a little groove underneath the bulge of fat, and that semi-circular groove looks like a dark circle. Fat bulges can be treated with lower eyelid surgery, also called a lower eyelid blepharoplasty. There is very little that can be done about dark rings, other than getting as much sleep and rest as possible. This may mean taking a serious look at your work and sleep habits, including not just the amount of sleep - but the quality of it too. Does especially snoring or waking episodes interrupt sleep? Do you get enough sleep, especially at the right times of the night for you? Lack of proper restful sleep also cause dark rings for reasons which are not properly understood, but which may be related to skin and blood supply changes in the area. Dark Circles Under Eyes are a common skin concern faced by people as they start to age. Not only do they not look good, they can give you the appearance of looking tired, disinterested and older than your true age.
While Dark Circles Under Eyes may be hereditary for some people, for many they are simply a part of the aging process. The fat pad that lies below the eye (infra-orbital fat pad), starts to thin over time and creates a sunken look to the area. The light that hits this area gives the illusion of a dark
circle. To start with, you want some immediate improvement to your appearance whether you plan to undergo a procedure such as fat transplantation or are going to wait out the benefits of products meant to help with dark circles. During this time, a concealer is going to be helpful for making you look your best right now. You need to understand what you are treating in order to select the proper products. For the blood vessel proliferation, topical Vitamin K has been shown to be helpful in diminishing the appearance of Dark Circles Under Eyes. The skin around the eyes and the eyelids is the thinnest skin on your body. Eye creams provide a lipid or emollient substance to keep this delicate tissue soft. So eye cream is essentially a moisturizer formulated specifically for the skin around your eyes.
Most people refer to these aging skin changes when they say Dark Circles Under Eyes, but occasionally allergy sufferers who have chronically rubbed the areas under their eyes due to itching and watering may truly change the color of the skin in this region. While most people think they need bleach for Dark Circles Under Eyes, only those with allergies (and occasionally other skin concerns) will truly benefit from the use of a bleaching agent rather than a skin rejuvenation product. Eye creams do not erase wrinkles or prevent them from coming. They can soften the look of the lines and help to decrease the appearance of wrinkles, but not the wrinkles themselves. Eye cream is important, but not magical. You have no functioning oil glands directly under your eyes, so you want to keep that skin moisturized at all times. So that when you express and the lines creaser around your eyes, they are creasing on soft tissue. Lines are formed after years of facial expressions and sun exposure that cause a breakdown of collagen, which then creates a wrinkle. A topical cream is merely keeping the tissue soft and, therefore, the lines less noticeable, less hard looking.
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