How to apply eye cream correctly for best results

Eye cream is used around the eyes. Many people know about it and a lot of people like to use it. Eyes can reveal your age, so what is the correct way to apply eye cream? How to use eye cream for best effect?

The correct way to apply eye cream

Step 1. Take an appropriate amount of eye cream on your ring finger and control the amount according to the texture of the eye cream. After gently spreading it, use your ring finger to tap lightly on the skin around the eyes in the direction of the arrow. Pay attention to the position of each point. The amount of eye cream should be as even as possible, and key positions such as the corners of the eyes should not be missed.

Step 2. Use your ring finger to lift the curve from the lower eyelid to the upper eyelid in the direction indicated by the arrow. This action needs to be repeated 5 times, and the direction cannot be reversed, because this helps to lift and tighten the eye skin, effectively preventing sagging, which is essential for anti-aging care.

Step 3. Use your ring finger to apply to the upper and lower eyelids in turn, gently applying from the inside to the outside to smooth the eye skin. Apply three to four times on the upper and lower eyelids until the eye cream is completely absorbed by the skin. Be sure to apply gentle force to avoid allergies and redness around the eyes due to friction.

Step 4. Relax your eyes appropriately. Use your fingertips to gently press between your eyebrows and feel the area around your eyes completely relaxed. The order of application may vary from person to person, but it is generally recommended that you apply eye cream after applying facial lotion.

How to use eye cream for best effect

1. Appropriate amount is required

Wrong method: Many people, when using eye cream, always want to apply a thick layer on their eyes, especially women who already have skin problems around their eyes. In fact, using too much eye cream on the eyes at one time will not only fail to improve the skin around the eyes, but will also make the eyes unable to effectively absorb the eye cream, thus causing a burden on the eyes and accelerating the aging of the eyes.

Correct dosage: When using eye cream, an amount the size of a grain of rice is enough.

2. Pay attention to the dividing line between the eyes and the face

Wrong method: Many people develop fat particles when using eye cream, and they always think that the eye cream is too nutritious. Although this possibility cannot be ruled out, more often it is because after applying the eye cream, due to their own carelessness, they overlap the face cream and eye cream, resulting in too much nutrition in the overlapping position, making the eye skin unable to absorb its nutrition, resulting in overnutrition, which leads to the growth of fat particles in the eyes.

Correct way: Use the orbital bone as the dividing line between the "eyes" and the entire "face". When using eye cream, the area where the eye cream is used should not cover the face cream. Pay attention to the dividing line and do not let the eye cream and face cream overlap.

3. Use your ring finger to apply eye cream

Wrong method: Many people apply eye cream directly to the skin around the eyes with their hands, allowing the skin around the eyes to absorb it naturally, or they apply too much force with their hands when applying eye cream, thus damaging the skin around the eyes.

Correct method: Use your ring finger to apply eye cream. The skin around the eyes is particularly delicate, so you need to be very gentle when applying it. The ring finger is the lightest of all fingers. If you are not used to using your ring finger, then when applying eye cream with other fingers, you must be gentler. Applying too much force will easily cause wrinkles around the eyes.

4. Massage and relax your eyes

When applying eye cream, massage your eyes to relax them properly, which can promote the absorption of eye cream by the eye skin. The specific method of using eye cream is as follows:

Lightly apply eye cream around the eyes. At the beginning, there will be the most eye cream on your fingers. The outer corner of the eye is the most prone to wrinkles, while the inner corner of the eye is the thinnest skin. If you use too much, it can easily cause fat particles. Therefore, it is advisable to start from the outer corner of the eye. Secondly, it is recommended to make circles from the inner corner of the eye downward to the outside in order to prevent the corners of the eyes from drooping; but compared to making circles from the outer corner of the eye downward to the inside, it is more likely to cause skin pulling, and pulling may cause sagging and fine lines. In addition, it is best to press in this rhythm: one hard press, two or three gentle lifts. This is a classic lymphatic drainage acupressure method that can also be used on the face. Finally, follow the acupoints taught by the "Eye Exercises": Zanzhu point at the front end of the eyebrow, Yuyao point in the middle of the eyebrow, Sizhukong point at the end of the eyebrow, Tongzi point at the outer corner of the eye, Chengqi point in the middle of the lower eye socket, Jingming point at the eye head, and press these 6 acupoints with the middle finger in this order, or you can slightly rotate your fingertips. These acupoints are easy to find as you feel a sore and swollen sensation when pressing them. Press for about 5 minutes to dredge the meridians and eliminate fatigue. If you stick to this "eye protection homework" morning and evening, or at least every night, you can maximize the effectiveness of eye cream.

This is the end of the introduction to how to use eye cream. Eye cream still needs to be used correctly.