How to Moisturize Skin Around the Eyes

Keep the skin under your eyes supple.

Signs of age often show up around the eyes before other areas of the face. As the skin is thinner than the other skin on the face, as well as lacking oil glands, dryness and wrinkling can become prominent with age. Caring for the skin surrounding the eyes should be a bit different than the other parts of the face. The key is to add moisture and to keep the skin hydrated.

Things You'll Need

• Night-time eye cream
• Gel eye cream
• Pin
• Vitamin E capsule

Instructions

1. Pat a night-time eye cream underneath the eyes using your ring finger. Start with a pea-sized amount. Tap the ring finger gently against the outside corner of the eyes and work your way inwards. Choose an eye cream that contains hydrating ingredients like Shea butter and vitamin B3.

2. Dab a pea-sized amount of the same eye cream on the eyelids with your ring finger. Do so every evening before bed. Smooth it onto the eyelids and up to the brow bone.

3. Apply a gel eye cream underneath your eyes every morning. Dip your ring finger into the gel eye cream and pat it gently underneath the eyes only. Avoid putting it on the eyelids.

4. Stick a pin into a capsule of vitamin E oil. Squeeze the oil out and onto your fingers. Slather the vitamin E oil around the eyes. Apply it two to three times per week before bed. Put it over the nighttime eye cream.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep eye creams away from your lash-line.

• Do not pull or tug on the skin around the eyes.

References

• The Wall Street Journal; Beyond Cucumbers: How to Care For the Delicate Skin Around the Eyes; Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
• "Oprah"; Everything you need to know about preparing the way for stunning eye makeup; Jenny Bailly; February 2007