In fact, everyone will have dark circles more or less. Don't worry, as long as you know what kind of dark circles you belong to, you can find solutions for different types, so as to completely repel the annoying "blinking problem" from maintenance steps to changes in daily life and diet.
What kind of dark circles do you have?
Many people often don't know what kind of dark circles they belong to. If you want to prescribe the right medicine, you must make a correct judgment.
Three kinds of dark circles-
Blue dark circles: due to poor blood circulation, the skin around the eyes is blue, which is the most common type of dark circles.
Dark circles under the eyes: A shadow is formed on the face due to puffiness and bags under the eyes, which belongs to slack dark circles.
Brown dark circles: Pigmented dark circles caused by pigmentation around the eyes or dull skin.
Inspection method
Method 1: Gently flatten the lower eyelid with your fingertips to see if the dark circles have been alleviated.
Method 2: Raise your hand in front of the mirror, raise your face about 45 degrees, and observe whether your dark circles have changed in the mirror.
If: the color becomes lighter after the lower eyelid is even+the dark circles on the face are still obvious = blue dark circles.
If: the color becomes lighter after the lower eyelid is even+the dark circles become lighter when lifting the face+the eye socket skin protrudes sideways = black dark circles.
If: the color of the lower eyelid remains unchanged after the lower eyelid is even+the dark circles are still alive when the face is raised = brown dark circles.
Blue dark circles with poor blood circulation
Congestion caused by poor blood circulation appears through thin eyelids, especially for people with fair skin.
Checkpoint
Color: cyan, which will deepen to cyan when tired.
Scope: it will appear from the top of the head to the lower eye socket, and the size varies from person to person.
Who is most prone to cyan dark circles?
◎ People who are afraid of cold and have poor blood circulation;
◎ People who don't exercise enough and sit still all day;
◎ People who lack sleep and have irregular work and rest.
Bags under the eyes, dark circles with puffy shadows.
With the increase of age, the lower eyelid becomes slack, which leads to the enlargement of the bags under the eyes, thus forming a black shadow that looks like dark circles.
Checkpoint
Color: light gray to dark gray.
Scope of application: lower eyelid, under eye bags, slender figure.
Who is most prone to dark circles?
◎ People with thin skin, many fine lines around eyes and loose skin;
◎ People with big eyes and deep facial features;
◎ People who are prone to edema.
Pigmented brown dark circles
Due to pigmentation of the lower eyelid or external stimulation, the skin around the eyes is dull.
Checkpoint
Color: Different shades of brown with uneven skin tone.
Scope: It mostly appears in the eye head, both upper and lower eye sockets, with a wide range.
Who is most prone to brown dark circles?
◎ People who often bask in the sun or do their homework badly;
◎ People who make up every day but don't completely remove makeup;
◎ People who are allergic and like to rub their eyes.
Fight against blue dark circles
Blue dark circles represent: Beibei, 25 years old, freelance.
Caption: I am very afraid of the cold. My dark circles are particularly deep when I don't have enough sleep, and my skin is white, which is more difficult to hide.
Diet: In order to keep fit, I always control my diet, only eat vegetable salad and like to drink cold drinks.
Sleep: I don't go to bed until 2 am, but I can guarantee an average of 8 hours of sleep every day.
Exercise: Take a bath three times a week. Because I am very busy, I have little time to exercise.
Catch the criminal.
1, the first reason for poor blood circulation is fear of cold, and people who often drink cold drinks or like ice products should pay more attention.
2. Fatigue, lack of sleep and lack of exercise are all causes of poor blood circulation.
This is definitely NG
Drink several cold drinks a day.
Cold drinks are often the cause of cold body and poor blood circulation, which will lead to dark circles, so you must drink warm drinks instead.
Rub your eyes hard.
Don't think that rubbing your eyes hard can also promote blood circulation, which will cause damage to your skin and even produce fine lines.
Habit change, fight against blue and dark circles.
Buying eye cream with the function of promoting blood circulation, plus acupoint massage and drinking warm drinks, and taking a bath every day can completely solve the blood circulation problem.
Eat less salad and more warm vegetables.
Eating salad often can cause a cold. Even in the process of losing weight, you can't just eat cold food. It is best to use hot vegetables or vegetable soup instead to avoid catching cold.
Get into the habit of drinking warm tea
Strictly control the intake of cold drinks and drink more hot drinks, especially honey black tea, which has a good effect on keeping warm.
Bathing can improve blood circulation.
Forming the habit of taking a bath every day helps to improve metabolism, so that even in winter, your hands and feet will not be cold.
Press the acupoints on the top of the head
By the way, pressing the acupoints on the top of your head when combing your hair can improve blood circulation and make your skin beautiful.
Action solving, alternating hot and cold to promote circulation
Hot and cold towels are alternately applied to the eyes, which can promote blood circulation and solve the problem of blue and dark circles urgently.
Preparation items: washbasin, microwave oven, plastic wrap and two towels.
1. Pour cold water into the washbasin, then add ice cubes, and then soak the towel for about 1 min to make an iced towel (if there is no ice cube, ice water can be used instead).
2. When the towel is cold, wring off the water, but be careful not to wring it too dry, otherwise the towel will not keep warm.
3. After the other towel is completely soaked, wrap it with plastic wrap and heat it in the microwave oven for about 1 min.
Look up and fold the ice towel on your eyes until you feel tired.
5. At this time, apply a hot exchange towel to your eyes, alternating hot and cold to make blood circulation better. Remember, cold compress and hot compress must be done alternately for 5 times.
Attention! Don't burn your skin with hot compress.
When hot compress, be sure to pay attention to the temperature of hot towel not exceeding 42℃, otherwise it will accelerate skin aging.
※ Recommended for skin care products with cyan dark circles.
Choose eye care products that can promote circulation and strengthen skin, and continue to use them will definitely see the effect.
Water pride marine eye firming essence: Extracted from various plant essences, smaller molecular particles than ordinary eye cream are more easily absorbed by eye skin.
Helena Rubinstein C Essence Eye Cream: Highly acclaimed essence eye cream, with unique C3 slow-release technology, triple vitamin C essence is released layer by layer, which activates the microcirculation around the eyes and lightens the blue dark circles caused by fatigue.
Fight against dark circles
Dark circles: Tingqi, 28, teacher.
Situation: I always feel old recently. Looking in the mirror carefully, I found that the dark circles were at work. Looks like I have to take good care of it.
Food: two meals a day, mainly meat, insufficient vegetable intake.
Sleep: at least 8 hours, average sleep 10 hours.
Exercise: I have almost no habit of doing exercise. I only do stretching exercise when I take a shower.
Catch the criminal.
1. With the increase of age, the skin around the eyes becomes loose, which is obviously different from the cheek skin.
2. Excessive intake of water and salt causes eyelid edema.
This is definitely NG
Excessive intake of water and salt.
Excessive salt intake can cause edema, so it is forbidden to eat snacks or supper with high salt content within two hours before going to bed.
Usually go to bed late and make up sleep on weekends.
If you don't get enough sleep at ordinary times, sleeping on weekends can only eliminate the fatigue of the body surface, but can't prevent the skin from aging.
Flatten the bags under your eyes with your fingers.
In order to make the bags under the eyes look smaller, you can't help but flatten them with your hands when applying lotion? Doing so will only make the eyelids relax faster and make the dark circles look more serious.
Danger! Crow's feet is a "reserve army" to relax dark circles.
The initial symptom of loose dark circles is crow's feet. If you are not careful, dark circles will appear immediately.
Habit change, fight against dark circles.
It is difficult to quickly repel the dark circles caused by age, but as long as you insist on good maintenance, you can definitely improve it effectively.
Get into the habit of stretching before going to bed
Spend 10 minutes before going to bed every day to do stretching exercises and gently stretch your body, so that the blood circulation of the whole body will be better and the edema problem will be improved.
Intake of high antioxidant food
Foods containing vitamin A have a good antioxidant effect, and carrots and spinach are the best choices.
Exercise more and walk more.
When the blood circulation is smooth, the skin can get nutrition. Even if you don't have time to exercise, walking or stretching can make your metabolism better!
Action solving, clever use of collagen eye cream
Relaxation and edema are the main causes of dark circles. If you want to restore the elasticity of eye skin, applying eye cream to supplement collagen is the best method, and with acupoint massage, you can get better results.
1, before massage, recognize the positions of acupoints: the central depression of eyebrows is Yuyao point, and the depression of the lower eye tail is about 1/4, which is the retrobulbar point. Massage these two acupoints can effectively improve wrinkles and relaxation.
2. After applying the eye cream, gently press the point behind the ball with the belly of the ring finger, and push upward. There will be some slight pain at this time, but it will be very comfortable after massage.
3. Place the thumb pulp vertically at the fish waist point and gently massage.
4, the palm gently covers the eyes, and the maintenance ingredients are fully absorbed by the palm temperature, which has the effect of eliminating fatigue.