Five Tips to Stop Your Under-Eye Area from Ageing You Prematurely

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Under-eye bags are something which can affect people of all ages, skin tones and skin types and can be dealt with using various products. However, when you’re prone to under eye bags AND the signs of ageing have started to appear, it can be trickier to deal with as the skin becomes paper. We’ve put together five tips to help stop your under eye area from making you look old before your time.

Don’t Over-Conceal

There are plenty of color correcting concealers which can help to mask the appearance of dark circles. However, once your skin starts to thin with age, adding heavy concealer to your under eye can drag the whole area down, making it look far worse. Opt for a mineral powder instead, which will give buildable coverage without the weight.

Use a Tightener

Using a product to tighten the skin under the eye will not only reduce the appearance of fine lines, but it will also help to minimise the size of your eye bags in the process. Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex will help with eye are concerns such as wrinkles, crows feet, puffiness, dark circles due to hyperpigmentation and skin sensitivity due to dehydration.

Get Cool

Using something cooling on the area under your eyes is a simple way to reduce both dark circles and puffiness. An old-fashioned method is to refrigerate two teaspoons and place them over the eyes – if you haven’t got time for this, we recommend Dermalogica UltraCalming Mist which quickly relieves inflammation and discomfort, helping skin recover from damage and lipid barrier breakdown.

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

Fine lines and wrinkles are usually massively exacerbated by dryness, so it stands to reason that adding moisture will help. Additionally, sweeping massage gestures from the inner corner of the eye to the outer is a good way to reduce accumulated fluid from the puffy under eye area, so applying Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex with self-massage will help with both issues.

Pack a Punch

Sometimes, you need to just reach for the most powerful product you can find to hit all of the issues at once and in this case, Dermalogica Stress Positive Eye Lift is the product you need. It’s a high-performance eye treatment and masque that energises skin to reduce visible signs of ageing, dark circles and puffiness, all in one powerful treatment.

Say Goodbye to Puffiness Around Your Eyes

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There are loads of reasons for puffiness around your eye area – tiredness, illness, stress and allergies are just a few of them. Puffiness around your eyes can make you look exhausted and far from your best, so finding a way to deal with it is a must. Fortunately, here at Pure Beauty, we have a whole load of products which can help to banish the puffiness around your eye area, and these are five of our favourites:

Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex

This eye cream from Dermalogica is a real powerhouse of a product, tackling several different issues all at once. As well as dealing with puffiness, the complex also helps to remedy wrinkles, crow’s feet, dark circles due to hyperpigmentation and skin sensitivity due to dehydration. It’s ideal for drier skin or skin with is ageing prematurely and will totally revitalise the eye area.

Elemis Absolute Eye Serum

This eye serum from Elemis is all about the hydration, giving a wash of moisture around the eye area to decongest and tackle puffiness and dark circles. It conditions and nourishes the delicate eye contours, supports and tones the skin around the eyes and has a light texture that disappears immediately so that you can get on with applying your make up without having to wait for things to soak in.

Decleor Lift and Firm Eye Cream

As well as lifting and firming the area around the eyes, this cream from Decleor contains pearlescent particles which adds radiance to your skin. The peptides in the formula encourage circulation and re-energise the support fibres of your skin, which reduces puffiness and smooths wrinkles. It comes with a specially designed spatula to help you to apply the formula to the delicate eye area without causing ‘drag’, which can damage the delicate area.

Dermalogica UltraSmoothing Eye Serum

This eye serum comes from the Ultra Calming Dermalogica range, which means that it’s gentle on the skin and doesn’t contain any ingredients which might irritate the already-delicate eye area. It’s a potent but lightweight product which soaks evenly and quickly into the skin and gives immediate tightening and firming results. It’s perfect for those who suffer with sensitive skin but are trying to deal with the signs of premature ageing.

Elemis Pro-Collagen Eye Renewal

Elemis Pro-collagen products are notorious for their stunning effects and this eye renewal cream is no exception. It firms the area around the eyes, adding moisture and nourishment to the skin and obliterates dark circles and fine lines. It dramatically increases cell renewal and bears the Elemis Promise, so you can be sure that it doesn’t contain any sodium laureth sulphate or other nasties.

The Oscars 2017 – Red Carpet Beauty

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The Oscars are an exciting time for anyone interested in beauty because the looks shown on the red carpets are often a preview of the fashion we’ll see throughout the rest of the year. Aside from some rather unfortunate slip-ups involving envelopes that we won’t go into, this years’ Oscars were an evening to remember and saw some truly stunning looks and flawless faces coming out for the event, so we thought we’d take a look at some of our favourites from the night:

Emma Stone

Despite her being given an Oscar and having it taken away again, Emma Stone looked poised and graceful in her golden gown, which emphasised her alabaster skin and auburn tresses. To achieve a similarly radiant glow to Emma, we’d suggest using Decleor Double Radiance Cream which adds long-lasting moisture to the skin as well as an iridescent sheen to the skin which makes you look like a star.

Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway is a beauty ICON and at the age of seventy six looked as elegant and stunning as women half her age as she presented an Oscar. She’s considered one of the most beautiful and glamourous women to have even worked in Hollywood and while we have no doubt that a good life and genetics are responsible for her ageing so gracefully, we’d be willing to bet there were some amazing anti-ageing products, like the Dermalogica Age-Smart System, at work!

Viola Davis

As the only black woman to ever be nominated for three Oscars, it seems only right that Viola Davis should appear on every single “inspirational” list, but we were also blown away to discover that the incredibly youthful Davis is actually 51 years old! Her complexion is the envy of women everywhere and we suspect that she uses a powerful night cream such as Dermalogica Overnight Retinol Repair to keep it in tip-top condition.

Priyanka Chopra

As well as being one of India’s highest paid actors, a successful singer, film producer and philanthropist, Priyanka Chopra is also a Miss World winner, so shes definitely someone to aspire to in terms of beauty AND everything else! Her beautiful structured gown for the Oscras looked demure from the front but showed a whole lot of skin from the back, and we suspect there was plenty of Dermalogica Body Hydrating Cream going on back there to keep her skin looking smooth and supple!

Salma Hayek

There’s only one world for the ever-beautiful Salma Hayek – FIERCE! The 50-year old Mexican-American actress looked incredible in her head-to-toe black dress which showed off all the right curves in all the right places. We’re huge fans of Salma, both in terms of her fashion choices and her ethical ones, especially the work she does for UNICEF, women’s charities and other activism. Her complete lack of the signs of ageing is probably thanks to a really good eye cream, such as Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex.

Beauty Focus: Mother of the Bride

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So, your daughter is getting married this year and you want to get your beauty routine dialled in so that you look your best on the big day? Well, first of all, congratulations! And secondly, step right this way because we’ve got a whole selection of products which are perfect for women “of a certain age” who want to perfect their complexion.

Decleor Lift and Firm Day Cream – Normal Skin

When skin starts to age, it loses both the ability to produce its own moisture, as well as the ability to produce collagen. This means that the skin loses plumpness and elasticity, making you appear older than your year, which is why using a good moisturising day cream is essential. This cream from Decleor will add moisture, as well as lifting and firming your skin from within, giving you a more youthful appearance.

Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex

The eyes are a key area to attack when trying to improve the signs of aging, so this cream from Dermalogica is a must-have for any Mother of the Bride. Not only will it actively reverse the signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles, it will also prevent further signs of aging from happening. It’s a powerful but incredibly delicate formulation which is perfect for even the most sensitive of skin.

Decleor Youth Cleansing Milk

Keeping your skin clean and free from daily pollutants is hugely important in keeping the signs of aging at bay, but many cleansers are simply too harsh for older skin. This cleansing milk from Decleor has extreme hydrating power to plump the skin and enhance its youthfulness and is free from parabens, making it ideal for sensitive skin. Magnolia and sweet almond oils cleans and smooth the skin while hyaluronic acid locks in moisture.

Dermalogica Antioxidant HydraMist

This hydrating mist from Dermalogica is the perfect product to keep in your handbag and use every day, or as and when you feel you need it. It has flash-firming properties which will improve skin texture while intensely hydrating dry, dehydrated skin. Hyaluronic acid acts as a hydration magnet to quench dehydrated skin while pea extract creates instant firming action to lift and tighten while rose and clove extracts comfort and refresh the skin.

Decleor Lift and Firm Eye Cream

As well as offering the Lift and Firm Day Cream, Decleor also offers the eye cream equivalent which is for specific use around the delicate eye area. It contains several high-powered ingredients to boost firmness and add radiance around the eye area and comes with an innovative massage spatula to allow for precise application and blending around the eye contour, enhancing drainage.

Flawless without Photoshop

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It’s a sad fact that we very rarely see an untouched image of celebrities these days, no matter how flawless they actually are in real life. This unrealistic standard is so hard for ‘normal’ women to live up to, especially when we don’t even know what’s real and what’s not. Today, we take a look at five “before and after” shots of some of the most famous, and beautiful, women on the planet and makes some slightly more realistic suggestions of how to take care of your skin without the need for Photoshop.

Madonna

Given the fact that Madonna is 58 years old and is a life0long smoker, we think she looks pretty amazing in the first picture, but whoever retouched the second image obviously believes that her skin has too many wrinkles. She could probably benefit from using Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex which helps with wrinkles, crows feet, puffiness, dark circles due to hyperpigmentation and skin sensitivity due to dehydration. It is suitable for drier/prematurely-aging.

Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford may now be 50 but she’s credited with being one of the world’s first supermodels and, in our opinion, still looks incredible. Obviously, it’s inevitable that skin will change texture, and the skin of a fifty year old will rarely be as smooth and taut as that of a 20 year old, but using Dermalogica Body Hydrating Cream daily can help to firm and re-texturise the skin, giving a more youthful appearance.

Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall is best-known for playing Samantha Jones in Sex and the City and is ageing better than most of us could ever hope to, which is why it baffles us that they chose to retouch her photo in the first place. We’re guessing that she already uses a good anti-wrinkle kit because her skin is so radiant and youthful, and we’d recommend Decleor Anti-Wrinkle Starter Kit if you want similar results.

Britney Spears

Proving that even younger women aren’t immune to the compulsive need to retouch images, 35-year-old Britney Spears has been given the treatment here, where they appear to have darkened her skin and sculpted her bottom. For results that don’t require a PC, try using Decleor Gradual Glow Hydrating Body Milk to give yourself a natural colour, plus Decleor Sculpt Stretch Mark Restructuring Gel-Cream for a smoother rear-end.

Penelope Cruz

We’re not quite sure why magazine editors feel the need to make celebrities appear as though their skin has the same texture as glass, but Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz was obviously considered far too human in the before shot, despite being basically flawless. If you’re worried about the texture of your skin, you can always use Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant to help you to appear slightly smoother.