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Beauty Sleep is Important! |
Lack of sleep. Most adults need 7-8 hours sleep per night. Continuous late nights and lack of beauty sleep will eventually affect your skin and overall wellbeing too.
Alcohol (and drug) consumtion. Stating the obvious here but alcohol interrupts your natural sleep pattern and is a major cause of dark circles. Ever notice them after a night out?
Lack of nutrition. Again, a bit obvious, but a healthy, balanced diet is very important. We need enough vitamins, minerals and oils for healthy skin renewal. A poor diet can affect our skin, hair, sleep patterns and stress levels, which can all contribute to dark circles and puffiness around the eyes. Regular excercise is also helpful.
Fluid retention. Blood vessels under the eyes can become dilated causeng discolouration. Excess salt in our diets and smoking are common causes of this, but it can also be related to medications or illness.
Dehydration can also cause dark circles to appear, so make sure you drink enough water.
Allergies, Hayfever, and Iron Deficiency can be causes also.
Genetics. If it's in your family it is more likely you will get dark circles.
The Cures: the following tips can help...
Sliced cucumbers over the eyes, while lying down. The lying down bit is important to help improve circulation around the eyes.

A cold spoon over each eye. Pop them in the freezer for a few minutes. This helps with undereye bags too.
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Tap in and massage |
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The Body Shop cooling eye gel |
The Cover-ups:
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Skinflash |
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Try an illuminating concealer brush such as YSL Touche Eclat, or Dior Skinflash, concentrating on the inner corners. This will brighten up the eyes without looking heavy. Brush it only along the darkest parts, then dab in with your ring finger.
When using eyeshadow, keep dark colours away from the inner corners of the eyes, and apply only on the outer corners and socket line. Stay away from purples. dab a little light gold or cream eyeshadw on the inner corners, to open up the eyes.
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Keep under the eye clear and fresh |
That's it for today folks!! I hope you ladies have found this helpful in some way.
Anne xx
That actually worked!!! I tried the Lemon Aid and worked it exactly as you said and I can't believe the difference. Thanks ;)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! That's great to hear some good feedback, so thank you. Do try the other things and see how you get on. Feel free to let me know what worked and what didn't as it's all about learning from each other too! Anne xxx :)
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