Do you create your own wrinkles?

Yes, quite likely.  By applying your eye treatment the wrong way, among other causes.  What causes wrinkles around your eyes?  A lot of things.  Passage of time is not the only cause of wrinkle formation under the eyes.  Excessive sun exposure, squinting, smiling, smoking, muscle movement, and injuries also cause facial wrinkles.  If you notice more wrinkles under one eye, smiling or sleeping habits may be the culprit.  You may smile brighter on one side of your face, or you may sleep more on one side than the other side, pressing that side of your face against the pillow, resulting in under-eye wrinkles.  But among the above causes is also repetitive motion or incorrect eye treatment application.  By pulling and stretching your skin too hard twice a day (or more often), every day.

We receive this question often. How to correctly apply an eye cream to delay aging vs contributing to it.  Out of other places of your body, rubbing the skin is not a good option here.

An eye treatment should be applied to orbital bone of the eye as shown on the image above.  Orbital bone can be easily located by gently pressing the skin under the eyes until you find the bone just at the top of the cheek bone.  Trace it around the eyes with your fingers so you can actually feel the entire circular bone.  This is the area that eye treatment should target.  Apply a small pea size of your treatment using patting motions towards the outer side of your eye.  Using the ring finger will less likely cause tagging or pulling of the skin, since generally it is considered to be the weakest finger of all.

It’s also essential to avoid applying eye treatment too close to the lash line, as the product may end up in your eyes, picked up by your eyelashes.  With every blink the eye lash hairs would lift microscopic amounts of product and it can eventually be transferred into your eyes.  Anything that enters the eye cavity can act as an irritant and cause unnecessary adverse reaction, puffiness or allergy…

Leave your eye treatment on about a minute or so to absorb, before you put makeup on top of it.  That way, your powder or concealer won't cake up from the extra emollient base in your eye product.