Best Way to Control Lines, Crow’s Feet and Crepines around Your Eyes

Perhaps you think yourself lucky enough to have escaped puffiness and dark circles around your eyes, but unless you refrain from smiling for the rest of your life, it is impossible to avoid accumulating laughter lines around the eye, which often form in the shape of crow’s-feet. Under-eye lines are also the result of exposure to the sun, squinting and even the position in which you sleep.

The skin surrounding the eye is particularly fragile, being thinner and having fewer glands than the rest of the face. Because it is also more prone to dryness, lines, wrinkles and crepiness, as the membranes get weaker and the skin loses its elasticity, the eye zone is also the first to show signs of ageing. But, by taking good care of this area and protecting it from the harsh effects of the elements, you can keep lines, crow’s-feet and crepiness at bay.

Solutions

• Apply a good eye cream both morning and night. Try Shiseido’s Vital Perfection Daily Eye Primer, Lancaster’s Oxygen Supply for Eyes, Nivea Visage’s Anti Wrinkle Eyezone Q10 Repair Cream or L’Oreal’s Plenitude Contour Regard Eye Cream.
• Give your under-eye skin an extra boost by applying a treatment prior to your eye cream. Guerlain’s Issima Eye Serum, Elizabeth Arden’s Ceramides Eye Capsules and Cellex-C Eye Contour Gel are three good treatments.
• Once a week, treat your eyes to a nourishing eye mask, such as Kanebo’s Eye Mask Elixir or Clarins’ Skin Smoothing Eye Mask. Plump up under-eye skin and temporarily reduce lines by means of anti-wrinkle patches.
• Avoid sleep lines and creases by sleeping on your back.
• Crow’s-feet can be improved with laser resurfacing.
• Wear sunglasses, even on a sunny winter’s day, to protect your eye area from the sun’s rays and prevent the formation of sun- and squinting-induced lines and crow’s-feet.