Eye Creams

The skin around the eye is thinner than the rest of your face and has almost no oil glands. That is why it creases first, and why an active you tolerate perfectly well on your cheeks can sting there.

Be honest about which problem you actually have, because they do not share a fix. Puffiness is fluid, and caffeine genuinely helps. Dark circles are often pigment or visible blood vessels, and neither disappears entirely. Fine lines respond to peptides, retinal and time.

Patches are the fast version — fifteen minutes before you go out, mostly hydration and de-puffing. Creams are the slow version. A pea-sized amount, patted along the orbital bone with your ring finger, not right up to the lash line.