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Written By: Sandhya Raghavan | Updated : October 25, 2017 7:09 PM IST
As the old cliche goes your eyes are the windows to your soul. They can add character to your face and enhance your beauty. Sadly, while the rest of your face gets the best of creams and treatments, your undereye area gets neglected. The skin there is much thinner and more delicate than the skin on the rest of your face. It is also prone to constant exertion and lacks sebaceous glands, collagen and elastin. Little wonder why the first signs of ageing always manifest around your eyes. So stop neglecting your under eyes and never do these six things that are piling ages on your face.
As mentioned earlier, your under eye skin is really thin. Rubbing too vigorously will cause the delicate under eye areas to develop fine lines and wrinkles. This may come as a surprise, but your under eye areas are constantly moving (we blink around 10,000 times a day). Don't stress out the skin more by rubbing or tugging the delicate area in the wrong direction. Here's a tip: While removing eye makeup or while massaging your under eyes, move from the inner corner of your eyes to the outer corner, not the other way round.
An exfoliating scrub for your skin once in awhile is fine. But leave out your under eye area. Indiscriminate scrubbing with exfoliating face scrub could cause microinjuries on the fragile skin. Broken blood vessels can lead to more problems like dark circles. It's best to leave your under eye alone. And if you must exfoliate, use a little bit of cleanser on a soft cotton ball and rub lightly.
A full bushy brow is not just a recent fad; it's a sign of good health, youth and vitality. Thinning eyebrows with hair growing in patches are signs that you are ageing. Combat this eyebrow situation with a good eyebrow pencil to fill out the bald patches and massage your brows with a good quality castor oil every night.
Sometimes, the shape of your eyebrows can add years to your eyes. A downward sloping, droopy eyebrows can give the impression of sagging eyes and hence make you look older. Advise your beautician or the lady who does your eyebrows to opt for a shape with a slight arch instead of a droopy shape.
If you aren't getting enough sleep, it will start showing under your eyes. Dark circles are caused by poor blood circulation around the eyes, which results from poor sleep. The darker the under eyes are, the older you look.
One of the biggest beauty mistakes you could ever make is using a regular cream for the skin under your eyes. Since the skin under your eyes is delicate, your regular cream may prove too much for the fragile skin. Apply creams only meant for under eyes and instead of rubbing the cream in, try leaving it there for a while.
