You’ve had a good night’s rest, drunk gallons of water and if you were any more moisturised your face would slide off the pillow.
So why, when you inspect your face in the mirror in the morning, do your eyes still look so tired?
Puffiness, dark circles and those fine lines (which no cream seems to shift) can make you look exhausted even if your complexion is otherwise glowing. And, of course, the heatwave and high pollen count seem to only exacerbate the problem.
‘The skin under the eyes is very different from the skin on the rest of the face,’ explains aesthetic doctor Dr Wassim Taktouk, of London’s Taktouk Clinic (drwassimtaktouk.com).
‘While the rest of the face has five layers – bone, muscle, fat, collagen and skin – under the eye you have very little fat, and very little collagen. The skin itself is thinner, too – around 0.5 mm, compared with up to 2 mm elsewhere on the face.’
