Don't Let Your Eyes Show Your Age
There are some parts of our face that start to show the signs of aging way before anything else. Chief amongst these are our eyes. While a pair of dazzling eyes can be some of the most flattering and effective parts of your whole look, they also start to show fine lines, not to mention deep wrinkles, dark circles, and drooping, even when the rest of our face may be looking relatively young. Here, we’re going to look at what you can do to fight some of those premature signs.
Watch out for the sun
There are plenty of reasons that you want to keep your eyes safe from the sun. First of all, UV exposure can start to affect your eyesight, making you more likely to experience macular degeneration. However, UV-A rays, in particular, can be really bad for your skin. These rays dig deep into the skin and can affect the pigmentation, which can start to show as dark patches, age spots, and so on. Of course, there is always the risk of skin cancer that should be taken as seriously as possible As such, if you’re heading out into the sun, make sure that you do more than bring sunscreen. Wear a pair of sunglasses with real UV protection.
What about those dark circles?
The issue with treating dark circles is that they are caused by so many different things. Some people inherit them from their parents. Some people experience dark circles due to fat loss, due to a loss of collagen, because their blood vessels are congested due to allergies or exhaustion, or otherwise. Treating the cause is always better than treating the symptom. However, some of the better eye creams out there do typically try and treat all of these issues by hydrating, providing collagen, and otherwise covering up the dark shadows. If you can find out what’s causing your dark shadows, however, you can get even more specific in your treatment.
Fighting to keep your eyes open
Another highly visible sign of stress, aging, or general wear and tear is when your eyelids start to droop. However, while some of this drooping can be affected by the loss of elasticity in the skin (more on that later), there is also a drooping look that is caused by a condition called ptosis, or low-lying lids. This can make your eyes look sleepy and unfocused. You don’t necessarily need any invasive treatments to take care of it, either. Some ptosis eyedrops can help fight it as well. This can help you make your eyes look a lot more lively, giving you a more alert and youthful look and letting you show off your beautiful irises at their very best.
Stopping the sag
As mentioned, your eyelids can start to droop and look saggy. Ptosis is just one of the possible reasons and one of the easier ones to treat at that. For a lot of other people, this sagginess can be caused by plain and simple gravity. Lines of rest (aka wrinkles that appear as the skin settles and loses elasticity) will appear first and then they can start to sag. Elastin eye treatments might be able to help you start reversing the process if you catch it early. However, if the sagging starts to get more serious, then you might need to look at options such as surgery to reduce the amount of loose skin.
Maybe express a little less
The lines of rest mentioned above are one of the two major types of fine lines and wrinkles. The others are known as lines of activity, and these are particularly prone to striking the eyes, first as well. You may recognize them as things like crow’s feet. Essentially, the more your facial muscles move, the more they tug on the skin to the point that it starts to cause lines. Restoring elastin and collagen in the skin through the right creams can help. However, a very effective treatment to stop these lines of activity is to use botox shots. Botox effectively freezes the tissue connecting the muscles to the skin so that the skin isn’t tugged as much, allowing it more time to heal up.
Stop straining them
Eyestrain, itself, doesn’t have too many long-term negative health repercussions. However, you will still want to look after your eyes, especially if you spend a lot of your time face-to-face with a computer screen and that abrasive blue light. After all, eyestrain can cause your eyes to sting and water, which can cause you to blink a lot more, which can increase the fine lines of activity as mentioned above. For that reason, try to make sure you’re only using screens in well-lit areas, and consider even using accessories like blue light glasses to shield your eyes from the light that can cause eyestrain in the first place. Breaks from the computer are recommended as well, and this doesn’t mean you glue your eyes to your phone as well. Smartphone screens give off blue light, too.
Mind your stress levels
It might not be immediately obvious how to keep your stress levels down. However, learning management techniques such as yoga, meditation, and deep breathing exercises can help you keep things on an even keel when you’re feeling a little overwhelmed. But how does stress affect your eyes? When you’re stressed, your body doesn’t regulate its production of cortisol (aka the stress hormone), so there is more of it in your bloodstream. Alongside a great many effects (many of them not positive), cortisol can change your skin, making changes like wrinkles, crows feet, and reduced firmness much more apparent. If you want to keep healthy skin, you need to work for a healthy mind, too.
There are a lot of ways that your eyes can start to show your age, even a little earlier than the rest of your face. However, there are also plenty of tactics to make sure they look youthful, alert, and gorgeous as they ever were.
