“Gosh, I look so old.” Seemingly just a routine morning, except that I actually looked, really looked, at my eyes in the mirror. They were horrible. Frog-like puffy eyes. Where did they come from? How did I develop these awful rings under the eyes? I don't know, my eyes had never before looked like that, or at least I never noticed it. I couldn't believe how I had aged dramatically in just a few months. Some of it was due to poor nutrition, I'll admit, way too much coffee (and too many doughnuts, for quite the bloated look). And certainly not getting enough sleep regularly, contributing as did lack of exercise.
But anyway, I had to do something. And fast. So to cure puffy eyes, I headed straight to Starbucks and ordered two black teas, took them home, squeezed the excess liquid from the tea bags and refrigerated them for a short time until I had my fill from drinking the tea.
I had not used tea bags before but recalled reading about them. The theory behind tea bags on the eyes is that the caffeine in them will tighten the skin under the eyes, thereby reducing the puffiness. Sounds good in theory, so I tried laying down for 20 minutes with a tea bag on each closed eye. Well, long story short, it bombed. At the slightest movement, a tea bag would fall off. I couldn't move, I couldn't even breathe, or else plop, a bag falls. I attempted to hold the tea bags in place with my fingers but my arms quickly tired. Forget that!
I suppose I could have given cucumber slices on the eyes a shot. I see photos of women in spas always laying there with cucumber slices on their eyes (since the cucumber provides hydration), but cucumber slices probably wouldn't have fared any better for me than tea bags.
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Lack of sleep, stress, aging, environmental factors, even genetics each can play a part in one's natural eye appearance. I am talking about the negative eye attributes here: puffy bags, rings under the eyes, dark circles, crow's feet and fine wrinkles in the thinner skin around the eyes. To combat these issues, cosmetics and skin care companies developed eye gels and creams, applied by using your fingertips to massage under the eyes.
Nivea, L'Oreal, Garnier, and a few others have each gone a step further by adding a small rollerball to apply the eye gel. Think roll-on deodorant but with a smaller rolling ball, so it is easy to grip and roll around and under the eye as a thin layer of the gel is secreted.
Do these eye roller gels really work? I don't know, but I am testing the Nivea for Men Face Care Revitalizing Eye Roller Gel and will show the results in an upcoming blogpost. Meanwhile, we have listed descriptions of nine popular eye roller products available for both women and men to reduce under eye puffiness, bags under the eyes, dark under eye circles, and eye wrinkles for both women and men at http://www.squidoo.com/when-rolling-your-eyes-can-be-a-good-thing.
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