Under eye product

MauraTheThird

Hi, I'm a 20 year broke student, desperately looking for something to minimise the darkness under my eyes as well as maybe reducing the laugh lines I have under my lower lash line.
I get ~7 hours sleep everynight, eat well and drink minimum 2 litres of water a day!

Any ideas of products, or even beauty tricks would be great. I'm sick of looking tired all the time

alleystar

I use Boot's Botanic 80% Organic Hydrating Cream for preventing/ reducing the appearance of fine lines under my eyes. I find it really good. It's 13.50 so it's not that expensive, a tube lasts a good while I think.

http://www.boots.ie/en/Botanics-80-Organic-Hydrating-Eye-Cream-15ml_1262013/

You could try out Garnier Caffeine Eye Roll-On for the dark circles under your eyes although that would be another 13 euro.

There's lots of alternative options too that can be found on the internet, like placing cooled teabags/ cucumber slices/ cold teaspoons/ ice placed in a cloth etc, over your eyes/dark circles. I don't know how well they work though tbh.

_Chaos

MauraTheThird wrote: »

Hi, I'm a 20 year broke student, desperately looking for something to minimise the darkness under my eyes as well as maybe reducing the laugh lines I have under my lower lash line.
I get ~7 hours sleep everynight, eat well and drink minimum 2 litres of water a day!

Any ideas of products, or even beauty tricks would be great. I'm sick of looking tired all the time

I've struggled with this for years, I have actually tried the garnier roll on one, and found it complete rubbish, although I know a lot of people worship it.
I started using Boiing by benefit just before xmas and find it brilliant, and it's a bonus that I can use it on blemished/redness too! It stays on well all day & brightens my eyes, It's not cheap (20ish for the little tub), but I find it does an excellent job so it's worth it, rather than buying 3 or 4 cheap ones that don't work!

panda100

I've tried all types of products for dark circles, and am finally down to a routine that is working for me. My dark circles are not gone, but definitely have been reduced tot he point where I feel they are not noticeable that much.

At the moment I'm using eyesilix in the morning and at night http://www.boots.ie/en/Indeed-Labs-Eysilix-Instant-Eye-Rescue_1282805/

For special occasions and at weekends I use Clarins Eye Revive Beauty flash http://www.boots.ie/en/Clarins-Eye-Revive-Beauty-Flash-20ml_15020/, which is the best eye cream I've ever tried. You can't use it all the time as it will loose it's effect, but it really perks up eyes for a special occasion. If I'm going for a weekend away I will just bring this with me.

For concealing, I use Bobbi Brown corrector and Bobbi Brown tinted eye brightener over this. I've used Booing and it looks very cakey on me. I would definitely ask for testers before buying. On a student budget, I think the best under eye concealer I've tried is Maybelline rewind eraser dark circle corrector. Although, unfortunately it doesn't come in a shade pale enough for my skin, but I do use it sometimes during the summer.