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The thin skin around the eyes requires special gestures and dexterity to apply the ideal product. How to do it? What are the right actions? An expert shares her daily habits that will open your eyes.
With the moisturizer and the serum, the eye contour promises to be an essential to take care of your eyes, especially as the years set in. The thin and fragile skin in this area needs daily care to smooth fine lines and relax the eyes. But with what gestures? A few days ago, Jeanne Casimir, an expert facialist at Elizabeth Arden, gave her good advice in the magazine She.
Step 1: Smooth the eye contour
On clean, dry skin, ready to receive care, the eye area has its place: apply it between the serum and the face cream. For that, “pour a small dab of product on your index and middle fingers” explains the expert. It is then a question of applying the product, to the bottom and top of the eye contour, leaning on the bone located all around the eye, and smoothing with the fingertips from the inside towards the exterior of the face. “Always remember: keep a neutral face, without contracting other areas of the face.
Step 2: Reduce puffiness and dark circles
To reduce puffiness and dark circles, then tap lightly under your eyes and with your fingertips. “This involves targeting the hollow of the dark circle in order to activate blood and lymphatic circulation.”. Doing so will help decongest the area.
Step #3: Relax your temples and crow’s feet
Then move on to relaxing the eyes,”more particularly the area of time”. Concretely, this aims to counterbalance the natural squinting of the eyes which we call crow’s feet. The expert advises simply tapping with your fingertips on either side of the affected area.
You can also gently stretch the temple area with the opposite hand, using upward and downward movements.
Step n°4: Lift your eyes
For those who wish to reduce the effect of drooping eyelids, it is also possible to lift the eyes. Jeanne Casimir advises placing one hand above the opposite eyebrow (passing the opposite arm above the head) and gently lifting the tail of the eyebrow with your fingertips. “Caution: never work on the eyelid. The goal being to work the muscle of the forehead and not the skin, that would cause damage”explains the expert in the women’s media.
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