Top 5 Undereye Anti-Aging Skincare Tips!
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hey everybody it’s Angie and welcome to
hot and flashy you know one of the most
common questions that I get asked by
viewers is why is your under-eye area so
smooth and what eye cream do you use and
I know that everyone wants to know what
to do about wrinkles underneath the eyes
about dark circles about puffiness and
eye bags and also crow’s feet to the
sides of the eyes and that’s because the
eye area is one of the first areas to
show the signs of aging on our face the
reason it shows the signs of aging
sooner is because the skin around our
eyes is thinner than the skin on the
rest of our face and it also has fewer
oil glands than the skin on the rest of
our face and as you know after a
lifetime of sun exposure and repeated
facial motions like smiling or squinting
you really start to see a lot of fine
lines and wrinkles or even some major
wrinkles or you know major puffiness or
major darkness underneath your eyes and
people want to know what to do about it
and as much as I’d love to tell you that
there’s one magic eye cream that will
take care of all those things for you
you know I have to tell you the truth
and the truth is that there just isn’t
one it does not exist and as a matter of
fact I don’t use anything labeled eye
cream in my skincare routine yet I’ve
been able to improve the look of my eye
area over time and not just with Botox
so in today’s video I’m going to give
you my top anti-aging skincare tips and
tricks for the eye area
so my number one tip is of course to
protect the skin around your eyes and so
when we’re talking prevention we are
talking sunscreen and I know that a lot
of people don’t like to use sunscreen
especially around their eye area because
it can sting it can burn it can also run
into your eyes if you’re active and it
can burn your actual eyeballs so the
solution for that is to use mineral
sunscreen around your eyes so I put my
sunscreen underneath my eyes and also on
my eyelids every day because those are
areas that the Sun will damage and so my
two favorite sunscreens for the eye area
are the elta MD UV elements SPF 44 this
is not specifically for the eye area but
it works great there and the other one
is the colorscience
CAIR three-in-one renewal therapy this
is an SPF 35 the reason I like tinted
products for the eye area is that it
makes it so that you can eliminate one
step of your eye makeup and you know
kicking on a lot of eye makeup in that
area will make your wrinkles look worse
but if you have dark circles you
definitely need some coverage there so
it’s best to start color correcting and
I like this guy because it is like a
peachy color corrector and if you don’t
have huge dark circles then this one is
good because this is kind of a light to
medium tan colored tint and because
they’re all mineral these won’t burn or
sting your eyes or the skin around your
eyes so those are great products and
don’t just rely on your sunscreen alone
if you’re going to be out in the Sun all
day sunscreen is a screen so it still
lets some of the damaging rays through
no matter what so you shouldn’t expect
to get zero UV exposure just because
you’re wearing sunscreen even if you
reapply often you still need to go with
the physical protection of either a pair
of sunglasses or a baseball hat or a big
floppy hat to protect that delicate skin
around your eyes so this is my favorite
pair of sunglasses right now I just got
these a couple of weeks ago and I love
them because they’re big and they shade
my entire under eye area but they don’t
touch my cheeks and they’re so
lightweight and I gotta say part of the
reason that I think I don’t have as much
sun damage around my eyes as I should
it’s because I always wore sunglasses
when I was younger I have blue eyes and
they’re very sensitive to sunlight and
so I always would get a headache from
bright sunshine so I always wore
sunglasses and I think that really saved
the skin around my eye area because I
wasn’t wearing sunscreen back then you
know there really wasn’t any I didn’t
really start wearing sunscreen seriously
until seven years ago when I started my
youtube channel so you know it’s never
too late to start wearing sunscreen so
I’m sure I shot some of you a couple
minutes ago when I said I don’t use an
eye cream but that’s because for my
anti-aging skincare I am into finding
the most potent the most effective
anti-aging ingredients and using them
everywhere that I want to anti age and I
find that looking at most of the
ingredients list on the eye creams out
there but they’re pretty subpar they are
basically nice moisturizers that might
have
possibly two pretty weak anti-aging
ingredients in them and for my eye area
which is the area that’s going to show
my age first I want the strongest
ingredients I mean I may have to ease in
with them over time so that I don’t get
irritation with them but my goal is to
have the strongest ingredients work in
my skin over time to actually turn back
the hands of time because I can’t go
back 40 years and start slapping on
sunscreen I have to work with what I
have and what I have is wrinkles and so
I need to be using the most potent the
most effective anti-aging skincare so if
you’ve watched me for any amount of time
you guys know that the gold standard the
most effective anti-aging skincare
ingredient you can get is tretinoin this
is a prescription ingredient it’s known
as retin-a and it’s not the same as
retinol so if you’re buying an eye cream
with retinol in it don’t think that it’s
gonna do the heavy lifting that retin-a
or tretinoin can do it’s not that it’s
worthless and it’s good for like younger
people who don’t have major wrinkles but
you know if your wrinkles have gotten
pretty big over time then you’re gonna
need the big guns the heavy hitters to
fight it so this is my current tube of
tretinoin I get a prescription from my
dermatologist and I have been using this
for seven years already and let me bring
in a couple of pictures these aren’t
from this year but this is the last time
I didn’t update on my tretinoin use and
you can see that by using this over five
years it really decreased the size of
the wrinkles around my eyes and it made
the skin around my eyes actually look
younger
this helps with dead cell turnover on
the surface of your skin and so it makes
the surface layer of your skin look a
lot younger but it also hits retinoid
receptors deep inside your skin and
increases collagen production and it
increases the thickness of your skin
wherever you use this and so while I
didn’t put it underneath my eyes when I
first started using it it took me about
a year to get up to using it there by
slowly acclimating my skin I did
eventually get up to the point where I’m
putting it under my eyes every night and
it has really turned back the hands at
I’m on my I wrinkles so that’s a really
important thing to use and you’re not
going to find this in any eye cream
because of course it’s by prescription
now if you can’t get a prescription
don’t want a prescription can’t use
tretinoin because some people just can’t
they can never acclimate to it there are
some other options that are
over-the-counter one of the probably
most effective ones is going to be
different gel this is an acne medication
that was available only by prescription
and now is available over-the-counter
and this is probably the most potent
form of retinoid that you can get at the
drugstore so that’s a good one to try
but warning this is drying so just like
with the trent annoyin you may have to
work up to putting this underneath your
eyes so then the other retinol that I
recommend is retinaldehyde so this is a
step between over-the-counter retinol
and prescription tretinoin and then for
over-the-counter retinol i like the
ordinary this is their advanced retinol
2% if you want a starter retinol to use
around your eyes while you’re trying to
acclimate to tretinoin this is a good
thing to do so you can put this right
under your eyes still even with a
retinol i wouldn’t start in with it
every single day i also put the other
acids in my skincare right up underneath
my eyes this has also taken a long time
to acclimate to doing that so i do use
the ordinary lactic acid 5 percent and i
do use timeless 20 percent c plus e for
Rula Cassatt serum and these are going
to do great things for your skin they’re
going to help to gently exfoliate that
area they’re going to help to brighten
and firm the skin so those are great but
again on day one you don’t want to start
in putting tretinoin and vitamin C and
an alpha hydroxy acid all underneath
your eyes because you will end up with
redness and irritation and dryness so
using a lot of acids in your eye area
can be done I have worked up to using
them every day but it’s taken a long
long time so you have to consider it a
marathon and not a sprint and be willing
to take the time to acclimate slowly so
that you don’t make your under-eye area
look older and worse while you’re trying
to make it look better but using
tretinoin and other acids around your
eye area or anywhere on your face can be
a little bit drying especially at first
and so I like to counteract that by
using lightweight hydrating serums
during the day and then more occlusive
more moisturizing cream
at night so the two things that I’m
loving for around the eye area that are
very hydrating are the timeless coenzyme
q10 serum this one contains Co Q 10
which is an antioxidant it also contains
mitrik so 3,000 it has hyaluronic acid
the may love hydrator has hyaluronic
acid panthenol and resveratrol some
other really great anti-aging
ingredients and then I top my serums up
with another lightweight moisturizer I
use the sera vpm daily facial
moisturizing lotion I love this because
it’s got a big dose of niacinamide it
also contains ceramides and those are
fatty lipids that are so good for your
skin those are the kind of things that
keep your skin looking plump and
hydrated and there’s nothing better for
that skin around the eyes then some good
hydration then for nighttime I use
heavier more inclusive moisturizers
after I put on my tretinoin and my other
serums I’ll usually go in with either
the CeraVe skin renewing gel cream or
the CeraVe skin renewing night cream
they again have those ceramides in them
they also have good occlusive
moisturizers that will really lock in
the moisture while I’m sleeping another
product that’s kind of similar to those
because it does contain the ceramides is
this Paula’s Choice Omega plus complex
moisturizer this has Chia and flax seed
what I like about this is it’s got a lot
of oils in it and you know oils can
really help to soften and smooth your
skin and make it look nice and again I
don’t just put these around my eyes I
will put them on my whole face now I
know based on comments from another
video that I did about eye creams that a
lot of people think that milia are going
to be caused by using a heavy or
occlusive moisturizer around the eye
area and I did a little research into it
and I found that that actually it’s not
heavier occlusive moisturizers that
cause Melia I don’t really know what
causes is but what it is is basically
some keratin or some dead skin that gets
trapped underneath the skin but what
helps with them and what can help
prevent them is exfoliating the skin so
as long as you use those exfoliator that
I mentioned before like tretinoin is an
exfoliator and also the lactic acid that
I showed a couple minutes ago that is an
exfoliator so as long as you’re putting
your exfoliators underneath your eyes as
well
you can then use a nice heavy
moisturizer that will help to lock in
the moisture to that skin and really
that moisturized skin around the eyes is
what helps it to look a lot younger one
of my top tips and recommendations for
under eye wrinkles and under eye bags
and under eye darkness is to start
sleeping on your back with your head
elevated now this one is a hundred
percent free but it’s not necessarily
easy to do and I know everyone wants
something easy and like that magic cream
but as I said before it doesn’t exist
I learned this a few years ago when I
was visiting my dermatologist and she
could tell which side I slept on by how
deep my wrinkles were on that side of my
face I was completely horrified but you
know I went home that day and I started
trying to train myself to sleep on my
back and one of the things that helped
so much was getting a sleeping wedge and
also putting some pillows on top of it
to elevate my head and once I did that
it was much easier to acclimate myself
to sleeping on my back so this is the
sleeping wedge that I got it’s a ten
inch wedge I got it on Amazon and it has
this removable cover that you can wash
mine actually does need washing right
now so I got to put that in the wash
today but it’s a great little tool that
really helped a lot so the first thing
is to sleep on your back so that you’re
not ironing in those wrinkles overnight
when you sleep with your face smashed
into a pillow and the second part of it
is to keep your head elevated overnight
so that blood and other fluids don’t
pool underneath your eyes causing
puffiness and dark circles so while some
dark circles and puffiness underneath
the eyes can be caused by the buildup of
fluids there some are hereditary and so
if you have the hereditary dark circles
or puffiness then there might not be
that much that you can do about it and
sleeping with your head elevated might
not help that much with it for you I’d
say that the best thing that you can do
is to use makeup to cover up your dark
circles and I actually have a whole
video on how to apply your concealer and
to keep it from creasing underneath your
eyes so I’ll put a link to that right up
here if you want all the details on how
I trained myself to sleep on my back I
talked about it in one video and I also
did a blog post on it so I’ll link the
blog post in the info box below the
video and I’ll link the video that I
talked about it right
here another top tip is to use gentle
oil-based makeup removal so if you are
using a harsh soap based detergent if
you’re using drying my solar water if
you’re using those makeup removing
towelettes where you scrub and tug at
your eye skin those are the enemy of
your eye area so I’ve switched to a
double cleanse where the first step is
an oil-based cleanse it removes
waterproof eye makeup it removes
sunscreen that’s really tenacious it
removes everything so easily my favorite
oil-based cleanser is the clinic take
the day off cleansing balm this doesn’t
irritate my eyes at all so I can rub it
right into my eyes at the base of my
lashes and under my lashes and oh my
gosh how it just dissolves all the
makeup right off is amazing but since
its oil base it’s very slippery so even
though I am rubbing that skin I’m not
pulling on it it’s not moving around a
lot and I’m getting the makeup off then
a second cleanse with a soap free gentle
cleanser and my skin is clean the area
around my eyes is free of harsh
chemicals and I can go ahead with my
skincare and it is ready to accept all
those great anti-aging ingredients that
we just talked about so we can’t talk
about anti-aging for the under eye area
without talking about in-office
procedures like lasers Botox and fillers
botox is probably your best bet if you
have wrinkles out to the side like
crow’s feet but it doesn’t really help
with wrinkles directly under the eyes I
actually don’t have a great time at
getting Botox done for these areas I
have gotten it around my eyes a few
times my cheeks look not in a weird way
that makes this big shadow at the top
and it’s happened a couple times in the
past and you guys have always seen it
and commented on it it actually makes
you guys think that I’ve gotten cheek
filler which wasn’t the cases that I got
Botox for my crow’s feet and that just
makes my face act weird so for wrinkles
directly under the eyes I think that
probably a laser treatment is the best
or like a light treatment like a BB L
depending on how young you are when you
start but I did have one laser treatment
done about three years ago now and it
really did make a difference in the fine
lines and wrinkles directly under my
and I think I’m gonna have another one
done this winter because I really liked
it and I feel like there’s not a lot
that you can do for these wrinkles with
injectables so you have to go to you
know another thing like a laser if you
have deep tear troughs then that is a
job for filler I’ve never gotten that
filler but I know people who have and
they swear by it I hear it hurts though
I’ve really never gotten any filler
around my eyes the one filler that I
think did help with my under eye
wrinkles wasn’t even eye filler it was
voluma that I got my cheeks and that is
to you know give you the better cheeks
and cheekbones and everything when I had
the voluma that is going back I think
over four years ago now so that’s
completely gone but while the filler is
in there it does help the area to look a
lot better because it just kind of you
know plumps up the skin over here thus
reducing the wrinkles so those are my
top anti-aging tips for the eye area
that’s what has worked so well for me
over the last 70 years you know I’ve
only been doing this since I turned 50
and so if you start younger if you start
protecting your skin when you’re younger
if you start getting into skincare when
you’re younger you could have beautiful
crease free eyes by the time you’re my
age or if you have a lot of sun damage
from back then and you already have the
wrinkles there are things you can do to
help your under eyes look a little bit
younger so I hope you found the video
helpful and informative
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bye-bye
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