Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror in the morning and seen such dark circles under your eyes that it looked like you spent the night in a coffin rather than a bed?
Statistics show that as much as 90% of us will have to deal with those plaguing dark circles under the eyes.
But the good news is that these circles don’t have to be permanent! We’ve put together a simple 5 step system to help you get rid of your circles naturally.
1. Understand Why You Get Dark Circles
Because there are many different causes of dark circles, you should choose a treatment that will address your individual cause.
Dark circles can be caused by gluten intolerance, lack of sleep, sinus or nasal congestion, genetic pigment irregularities, excessive sun exposure, aging process, alcohol, caffeine, smoking and even allergies.
By monitoring when you get circles, you will be able to track what kind of behavior triggers them in your body, and you will be able to address them accordingly.
3. Raid Your Refrigerator
You might be surprised at the effects some of your groceries can have on your dark circles. Try applying some cucumber slices, refrigerated tea bags or ice cubes wrapped in a cloth to your closed lids. All of these methods will reduce puffiness and invigorate the skin.
4. Use A Chilled Spoon
Dr. Oz recommends putting a spoon in the freezer for 10-15 minutes and then covering your dark circles with the back of the spoon.
He says in this article that this can help relax the blood vessels in and around the eyes, causing them to recycle the impurities that cause the circles.
5. Get Your Beauty Sleep
Although science is not quite sure why a lack of sleep causes dark circles, it is definitely clear that it does. By making sleep a priority, you can not only affect how tired you look, but it will, unsurprisingly, decrease how tired you feel.
Getting enough sleep has also been shown to decrease the effect that aging has on your body, reducing wrinkles that you already have and preventing new ones from forming.
In order to get fully rested, most adults usually need around 7-9 hours of sleep a night, but this amount tends to change throughout your life.
If you have trouble falling, and staying, asleep, it might be because you are getting an insufficient amount of vitamin B6 or minerals calcium and magnesium, as all of these contribute to a healthy sleep cycle.
6. Night Creams
Night creams can be extremely beneficial because they can help replace vital nutrients that are lost throughout the day.
For example, vitamin K and retinol both help improve the health of your blood vessels and reduce the appearance of under eye circles.
You can usually find many of these nutrients in wrinkle creams as well as under eye creams.
One product that we have found to both reduce dark circles as well as wrinkles around your eyes is Prototype #37-C.
With such a large dose of peptides, Prototype #37-C has helped many people improve the color and smoothness of the skin around their eyes.
All in all, it is important to choose something that works for you, so you can get older without looking like it.