Overtime, late nights, lack of sleep, certainly bring a lot of discomfort, and the “by-product” – dark circles under the eyes is also annoying. What’s worse, some people sleep to make up for it, but the dark circles have taken root, as if they were still the same. So, how exactly do dark circles form? And why does it “linger”? How to deal with it?
Fatigue caused by a good night’s sleep
How do dark circles under the eyes come about? Most people know that fatigue, staying up late, and poor rest will make the “panda eyes” come to you. The lower eyelid is the intersection of arterial and venous vessels and is rich in capillaries, explains Dong Xiuqin, chief physician of the Department of Dermatology at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital. The soft tissues in this area are lax, which makes it easier for the blood vessels to expand as they are reinforced by less tissue. When staying up late, not enough rest, fatigue and other situations occur, in order to adapt to the body’s needs, the body’s self-regulation will affect the body’s small blood vessels and the venous vessels will dilate. When the veins around the eyes with less external pressure are more dilated, dark circles are naturally formed.
In addition, staying up late, lack of sleep or eye fatigue, so that the subcutaneous microvascular blood flow around the eyes slows down, coupled with increased oxygen consumption resulting in increased hemoglobin, metabolic products will slowly accumulate together, resulting in the skin around the eyes appear blue-black, into “panda eyes”. Overall, temporary dark circles under the eyes are the result of dilated blood vessels, and to solve them, you should pay attention to regulation and sleep.
Follow the doctor’s guidelines to get rid of dark circles under the eyes
1.Sleep “beauty sleep”
How to come, how to get rid of. To stay away from dark circles, it is important to get enough sleep. It is best to go to sleep at around 11 pm, not only healthy and conducive to the repair of dark circles.
2, massage acupuncture points to promote blood circulation
Massage can help promote blood circulation and improve dark circles. There are several acupuncture points that are particularly critical –
(1) Zanzhu point: located on the inner side of the eyebrows, can help relieve eye fatigue, help accelerate blood circulation;
(2) Ching Ming point: located in the depression between the root of the nose and the corner of the eye, it can effectively eliminate eye fatigue;
(3) pupil point: located in the outer corner of the eye, is an important point to promote circulation and prevent fine lines under the eyes.
3, cucumber slices on the eyes
Cucumber is rich in vitamin E, which is beneficial to the self-repair of the eye skin, and is helpful in relieving the dilated veins.
4.Egg whites on the eyes
Egg white is rich in vitamin D, vitamin B, with astringent effect, can help the contraction of capillaries in the lower part of the eye, eliminate dark circles. You can add some salt to the egg whites to increase the osmotic pressure, which can also help eliminate edema and help to relieve dark circles.
How to cure the lingering dark circles?
Some people say, “I can’t get rid of my dark circles no matter how much I sleep, was I born with them?” Dark circles under the eyes are really born. The actual fact is that some people are born with insufficient thickness of soft tissues in their lower eyelids, the skin around the eyes is thin, and the cyan color of the blood vessels under the skin is easily visible, so the dark circles are “resident”. A little bit of rest is not good, there will be a serious “panda eyes”.
As we age, the skin becomes thinner, and the orbital fat and collagen are gradually lost, and the skin around the eyes loses its support and sags. In addition to poor circulation, the soft tissues become more lax and the veins are more likely to expand. This situation cannot be simply solved by sleeping on it.
Many people use make-up techniques to cover up dark circles under the eyes, which can easily lead to skin pigmentation in the long run, forming “panda eyes” that are difficult to remove.
For pigmentation caused by “dark circles”, can be treated by the following methods –
1. Hyaluronic acid injection. For tear trough dark circles, which are shadows caused by tear troughs that make the area around the eyes look darker, hyaluronic acid injections or autologous fat transplants can be used to fill the tear troughs. After the tear trough is filled, the shadow will naturally cease to exist, and with the thickening of the tissue here, the dark circles under the eyes will naturally be relieved.
2. Laser. For dark circles under the eyes caused by pigmentation, they can be treated by laser. Dong Xiuqin said, laser beauty can improve the metabolism of the skin, promote blood circulation, lymph circulation, stimulate the thickening of the skin, collagen renewal, the symptoms of dark circles will be improved. In addition, laser treatment can also be used to improve dark circles by occluding the dilated veins.