How To Get Rid Of Puffy Eyes & Dark Circles
#15 Limit Your Sodium Intake
A major culprit in puffy eyes and dark circles is salty foods, which are all-too common in an age of overly processed foods. But limiting the amount of sodium you ingest on a daily basis is not only better for your eyes, but for your diet as a whole.
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Limit Your Sodium Intake
A major culprit in puffy eyes and dark circles is salty foods, which are all-too common in an age of overly processed foods. But limiting the amount of sodium you ingest on a daily basis is not only better for your eyes, but for your diet as a whole.
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Drink Plenty of H2O
In the instance that your body is too full of toxins--which are puffing out your orbs--a good system flush can work wonders. But no need to take on some intense 7-day detox; drinking plenty of water, with maybe slices of lemon or cucumber, can help get rid of those eye bags.
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Cucumber Slices
Those silly pictures you see of women at luxury spas with green facial masks and cucumbers on their eyes? The look isn't just for a laugh: those veggie slices have been helping reduce dark circles and puffiness for centuries.
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Bust Out Those Teabags
Cold, wet teabags can help pull toxins out of the skin around your eyes and reduce puffiness.
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Vitamin E
Be careful, a little bit of this stuff goes a long way: Too much vitamin oil will be counter-productive and add to puffiness.
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Get Your Zzz's
It's true: That extra work stress that your boss puts on you that keeps you up at night could be giving you puffy eyes and dark circles. Getting a decent amount of shut-eye works wonders on your orbs. So, at least, give yourself lots of sleepy time over the weekends.
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Spoon It
Cold helps reduce swelling, and an icy spoon pressed to a puffy eye is a simple at-home remedy to help reduce eye circles and darkness.
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Ice Ice Baby
If your dark eye circles are hereditary, you can still reduce them at home with a staple from your freezer: Wrap a couple cubes in a wash cloth and dab your peepers. The cold will bring down the swelling.
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Raise Your Head
Propping your head up with an extra pillow at night can help prevent fluid from collective in your eye area. Just don't prop it up so much that you wake up with a whole other ailment: neck pain.
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Watch Your Late-Night Fluid Intake
Remember all that water you should drink to help flush out your system? Be careful not to drink all of it before bed. This will cause it to store up while you sleep and could initially add to the puffiness and dark circles instead of preventing them. That especially goes for other fluids, such as alcohol.
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Avoid Oil-Based Makeup
The type of makeup that you put on your face everyday could be one of the biggest reasons your eyes won't de-puff. Stick to a lighter-weight, oil-free foundation, no matter what skin color you are.
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Remove Your Makeup
Forgetting to wash off your makeup before bed doesn't just clog the pores on your cheeks and T-zone; it can also allow oils to get absorbed under eyes, making them puffy the next morning.
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Allergies
If no beauty remedy seems to diminish those pesky under-eye circles, it is a possibility that your peepers are reacting to allergies you didn't even know you had. Your doctor can prescribe an antihistamine to help reduce puffiness.
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Mask It
When all else fails and you STILL have a little eye puffiness the next morning, go to your makeup arsenal for help. Dark eyeshadow can help disguise upper eyelid puffiness, while a green foundation--the kind used to cover up bruises--can help disguise under-eye bags.
