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When your eyes look tired, the rest of your face will also take on a duller and more haggard finish. After all, your eyes are the first part of your face that people notice when they look at you! The brighter and perkier your eye area looks, the more radiant and youthful the rest of your face will appear.
So, what can you do to brighten eyes that always seem to look exhausted? Read on as VouPre shares some top tips:
1) Use Cold Temperatures to Your Advantage
Cold temperatures are commonly recommended as a way to quickly brighten eyes that look tired. The way in which cold temperatures constrict blood vessels minimizes the appearance of the capillaries under the skin. This then reduces the look of swelling, puffiness, dark circles, and dullness. Since the skin around the eyes is thinner than the skin elsewhere on the face, cold temperatures work particularly well when used on the eye area.
While a cold compress is usually what’s used, you have a few other options too. Cooling globes, for example, like the one found in VouPre Collagen Cooling Set Limited Edition, work in the same way. The mask, mist, and cream that are also in this set all work to leave the skin feeling cooler and calmer, which will leave your eye area looking fresher.
The VouPre BioCool Collection does similar. Each product in this set contains ingredients that will leave your eye area feeling cooler and looking brighter. Start by applying the Glacial Overnight Mask before bed, and then follow up with the Invigorating Luminous Serum and the Cool & Calming Cream after cleansing the next morning. Your eye area, along with the rest of your face, will look beautifully radiant!
2) Lighten the Look of Dark Circles
Dark circles can have a huge impact on your complexion. They’ll make your entire face look fatigued due to the shadows that they cast. These leave the eye area looking sunken while making the rest of the face appear paler. It doesn’t help that those darkened areas of skin will fail to reflect light in the way that they otherwise would. Again, this detracts from how vibrant the skin looks.
Fortunately, there’s plenty that you can do to lighten the look of your dark circles. Your first step should be to find yourself an eye cream that has been designed to do just that, such as the VouPre Dark Circle Eye Cream. With ingredients like resveratrol, caffeine, and vitamin C, your dark circles will look significantly lighter in no time.
You may also want to reassess some of your lifestyle habits. A lack of quality sleep, high levels of alcohol consumption, smoking, and dehydration can all contribute to dark circles. Make the necessary lifestyle changes, and you should soon start to see an improvement in your complexion.
3) Tackle the Appearance of Puffiness
Just like dark circles, puffy bags under your eyes will also make your face look tired and worn out. Those bags cast shadows that give the eye area a swollen appearance. Again, it’s very difficult for puffy skin to reflect light, which only makes the eye area look darker and duller. If you want to brighten eyes that look tired, dealing with any puffy bags is a must.
So, how do you smooth away the look of puffy eye bags? Once again, cold temperatures can be a big help. They’ll usually reduce the appearance of swelling and puffiness pretty quickly.
Certain eye creams are also formulated to tackle the visibility of puffiness under the eyes. The VouPre Firming Eye Renewal Cream is one. In addition to helping with the appearance of puffiness, it will also firm up the look of loose and creased skin to give your eye area a more youthful finish.
Puffiness can also be caused by a lack of hydration, which is where the next of our tips comes in…
4) Apply a Hydrating Eye Serum
Moisture can do so much for the skin. Simply giving your skin a moisture boost can lead to a brighter, smoother, softer, and more radiant complexion. When your skin cells are hydrated, they’ll look plump and supple, which is exactly what you need if you’re hoping to brighten eyes that appear tired.
What makes this tricky is that the skin around the eyes is so thin. It doesn’t take long for the moisture in those skin cells to evaporate away. This is why you need to follow a particular process if you want to bump up your skin’s moisture levels.
The first step is to apply a hydrating eye serum. A quick glance at a product’s ingredient list will tell you how hydrating it really is. The VouPre Advanced Gold Eye Serum, for example, is packed with humectants such as aloe vera, sodium hyaluronate, and peptides. These all bind moisture to the skin to provide quick hydration. This formula also contains licorice root extract and vitamin C to lighten the look of dark circles and discoloration, along with plenty of other antioxidants to keep your skin cells feeling young and healthy.
Once you’ve applied your eye serum, follow up with an eye cream. This will help to lock the serum, plus its hydrating ingredients, into your skin, as opposed to allowing them to evaporate away a short while later.
5) Try LED Light Therapy
When trying to brighten eyes that look tired, it makes sense to first figure out what’s causing your eyes to look that way in the first place. Whether it’s dark circles, puffiness, dehydration, discoloration, or anything else, knowing the specific issues that you’re dealing with will help you to find a solution sooner.
With that said, there’s one method that you can turn to that will help with just about every possible skin concern behind your tired-looking eyes: LED light therapy. This technology has been around for a while but was previously only accessible for skin care via a dermatologist. Now, however, times have changed, and there are numerous LED light therapy devices out there to choose from.
How will LED light therapy help? Red light will soothe the appearance of puffiness and swelling. It will also tighten and firm up the look of your skin. Meanwhile, blue light will lighten the visibility of discoloration while also calming the feeling of inflammation and irritation.
While there are plenty of eye-specific LED light therapy devices out there, it can sometimes be more beneficial to opt for one that can be used on your entire face. This way, you can turn to it when you’re dealing with other visible skin concerns too. The VouPre L’Rae Beam does just that, with this device offering three different modes. In addition to red and blue light, this device also gives you purple, which is a combination of the two and can be useful when dealing with various potential skin concerns surrounding your eye area. You’ll also be able to benefit from electrical muscle stimulation, radio frequency electrodes, and stainless steel chillers.
6) Refresh the Look of Your Skin With Under-Eye Patches
You’re probably familiar with under-eye patches. Even if you’ve never used them before, they’ve been all over social media lately! While many view them as nothing more than a trend, these patches can actually be very useful at brightening the look of tired eyes.
Of course, this all depends on the patches that you choose. Just like other types of face masks, under-eye patches are designed for a range of different purposes. You need one that will directly tackle the root cause of your tired-looking eyes.
VouPre’s Pure Soothing Eye Jelly Masks Limited Edition stand out because of how these patches can help with a few different issues. Not only will they immediately cool, calm, and refresh the complexion, but the ingredients in these patches will also deal with the appearance of dark circles and puffiness.
Never used under-eye patches before? They’re just like any other sheet mask. Simply apply them to your under-eyes, wait for 10-15 minutes, and then remove them before carrying on with the rest of your skincare routine.
7) Give Cucumber Slices a Try
While LED light therapy may be a very modern way to attempt to brighten eyes that look tired, some of the more traditional methods work well too. Placing cucumber slices over your eyes is one example. Not only do they impart a cooling sensation that will soothe the feeling of inflammation, but they’re also a great source of vitamin C and folic acid. Both nutrients can go a long way in easing the look of puffiness and discoloration.
If you’re not a fan of DIY skincare, the VouPre Hydrating Toner makes for a great alternative. This solution contains cucumber fruit extract, bringing you the benefits of cucumber in a very convenient format. Simply swipe this toner over your eye area after cleansing, and your skin should immediately look and feel fresher and brighter.
8) Cut Back on Screen Time
Have you been spending a large amount of time staring at a screen lately? This could be why your eyes have been looking tired. If so, the best way to counteract this would be to cut back on screen time as much as possible. This will reduce strain on your eyes while also minimizing the appearance of blue light damage.
Speaking of blue light damage…
It’s worth taking some extra steps to ensure that this doesn’t affect your skin. Keeping your devices on night mode can help with this, as can using a blue light filter or wearing blue light glasses. Regular blue light exposure can quickly leave your skin looking dull and damaged, so don’t let this happen to you!
Summary
While there may be several contributing factors to tired-looking eyes, there are also, fortunately, several steps that you can take to brighten up the appearance of your eye area pretty quickly! Follow the tips that we’ve shared above, and it won’t be long before the skin around your eyes is looking smoother, firmer, and beautifully radiant once again.
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