Not getting enough sleep can cause a lot of damage to your skin. If you’re up all night with the baby or catching up on a work project to meet a deadline, you need something extra to protect the skin around your eyes to keep it looking its best. Here are some causes of eye fatigue and anti-aging eye solutions:
Saggy Skin
Are you feeling like the skin around your eyes is losing its firmness? Perhaps it is not as tight as it once was and you are starting to see creases form at your outer corners, or wrinkles on the eyelid. If this is the case, you need to act fast! Part of the reason creases around your eyes form is because of rubbing them too much, not getting enough sleep to allow your skin to repair, and not keeping your skin hydrated. Using an eyelid firmer in cream or gel form can help in adding back lost moisture to your eye area to reduce the look of creases to give you that extra lift, tightening the skin on your eyelid to give you a brighter, more youthful glow.
Dark Circles
Your blood vessels play a big part in the appearance of dark circles. The skin around your eyes (preorbital skin) is the thinnest and most delicate. Because of this, blood vessels around the eye can easily be seen through the skin, giving a blue or purple undertone to your under eye. Besides thin skin, this is also due to bad blood circulation, which can be caused by stress or not enough sleep. If you are having trouble sleeping, or need help going to sleep faster instead of tossing and turning for hours which cuts your sleep time in half, try the Origins sleep eye mask, which blocks out light and is extremely comfortable as it is made out of cotton and linen. Using a sleep eye mask helps you relax faster and catch up on the sleep you so desperately need.
Puffy Eyes
Puffy eyes are caused because of fluid retention. Your skin has tiny glands called lymph nodes which carry and filter fluid, nutrients and waste substance throughout your bloodstream. When you sleep less, your body has less time to rejuvenate and process these fluids out of your body, and instead it retains them. This affects your eye area negatively, causing puffiness in your eyes. To help drain any excess fluid, you can massage your preorbital skin upwards around the eye in a circular motion. Start at your eyelid, go down to right above your cheekbone (as you want to avoid pulling your delicate eye area), and then come back upward to your eyelid by massaging up the side of your nose. Use eye cream while massaging, which will hydrate your skin and help your fingers glide easily. An alternative to massaging would be using a cooling eye mask for 10 minutes which facilitates the drainage of excess fluids as well.
Using a sleep eye mask and treating your eye with a firming cream will considerably improve the appearance of your eyes by keeping you well rested and looking bright!
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