The outer beauty and attractiveness aren’t just the perfect body but also the state of your skin, its complexion, smoothness and elasticity. Dark circles and bags under eyes is a cosmetic problem which is quite common and can be experienced at any age. As a woman gets older, this problem becomes more and more steady and hard to correct, it influences badly a woman’s appearance and shows her age. Young mothers suffer this problem most of all, as the birth of the child leads to the chronic lack of sleep, overfatigue and eating disorders.

The skin in the eye socket area is rather thin, and venous and lymphatic vessels are placed very close to its surface. As we get older, our skin gets thinner, and muscle grid supporting it gets less elastic. The vessels become more visible under the skin. The slightest lymph or blood outflow, related to a number of pathological states, causes the stagnation of blood and lymph in the eye socket area, which becomes evident to those who surround you. If you experience this problem for a long time, it can cause the formation of the dark circles and bags under eyes or make our eye sockets clearly marked, and cause the interstitial fluid stagnation.

It is worth mentioning that the time period from the dark circles under eyes formation (related to the fact that the blood vessels or , to be more precise, small veins become seen under your skin) untill the formation of the bags under eyes can last rather long. But the problem will for sure become evident, so the sooner you take necessary preventive measures and chose the appropriate treatment, the better.

There are several causes and factors of dark circles and bags formation under eyes. They are as follows:

• • Bad heredity (anatomical face features);
• • The lack of sleep, overfatigue;
• • The lack of iron (Fe);
• • Long hours spent at the computer;
• • Excessive pigmentation and long hours spent in the sun;
• • Some kind of chronic systemic disease, attended by fluid retention (allergic reactions, anemia, heart disease, thyroid disease, kidney disease, liver diseases);
• • Malnutrition (eating foods with excessive salt content, eating spicy and fatty foods, dehydration);
• • Using of the inappropriate cosmetic products;
• • Smoking.

If one eliminates these most common pathogenetic factors, the skin in the eye sockets area will look younger and healthier. At the same time any eye cream for dark circles isn’t able to make you beautiful if you don’t sleep well or smoke. You should do all that is necessary, as here the integrated approach is needed!

If you saw dark circles and bags under your eyes, the first thing you should do is to eliminate all of the most common causes of dark circles and bags formation, listed above. If doing so you still have the same problem or don’t see any significant changes, then you should use more effective methods.

If you are adherent to the traditional medicine and natural approach in treatment, then it is highly recommended for you to choose home remedies for dark circles and bags under eyes.

In other case you can take an advantage of recent medicine and cosmetology solutions. What you can try is:

Cosmetic methods for dark circles and bags under eyes treatment

• • Lymph drainage procedures - microcurrent therapy, ultrasonic lifting, d'Arsonval and facial massage – make it possible to improve the blood supply and avoid the fluid stagnation. If the dark circles under eyes are not seen too much, it is possible to lighten them with the help of peeling.
• • Fraxel and peelings increase the permeability of the skin, which makes it possible to achieve the incredible effect with the help of active anti-aging serums, containing vitamins and plant extracts.
• • In case the bags under eyes are seen too clearly, the ELOS-rejuvenation therapy, mesotherapy and biorevitalisation therapy can be rather effective. 1-4 mesotherapy sessions can eliminate the bags under your eyes as well as eliminate newly formed fatty hernia. To perform this procedure we use the fat splitting preparations which tone up the lymphatic vessels and venules.

The procedures mentioned above can be recommended by your cosmetologist from the specialized clinic only (after the patient’s full medical examination, as there are some contra-indications here).

Another cosmetic way of treatment (or to be more precise, the problem-disguising way)is the use of special eye creams for dark circles.

Medical methods of dark circles and bags under eyes treatment

If you want to achieve the stunning effect in a short time, or cosmetic procedures you tried turned to be not effective enough for you, you can turn to the recent medicinal and scientific solutions.

Laser Therapy. This method uses warmth to eliminate the blood vessels that are seen too clearly. In this way the circles under your eyes look less intense, and the vessels are not seen so well under your skin.

Blepharoplasty. It is mostly recommended in case of overhanging eyelids and bags under eyes, so much talked-about. If we speak about the recent solutions, then the transconjunctival blepharoplasty is worth mentioning (in case of this procedure the cut of the tissue is made on the lower eyelid mucosa), as well as laser therapy. This way of eliminating bags under eyes makes it possible to avoid the scar formation.

Certainly, as any other surgery operations, blepharoplasty can have some aftereffects. The surgeon must provide you with all the information needed not just on the operation itself, but on its aftereffects as well. And it is always up to you to decide if you need this procedure or not.

Now you have the general idea of what the most common causes of dark circles and bags under eyes are, and in what ways it is possible to treat them. We hope you will take advantage of this info, and your skin will get the second chance to start looking young again!