Home Remedies for Dark Eye Circles – The Raw Potato Compress

Dark circles, usually, respond well to a potato compress.

Scrub and grate a small potato and fill it in two gauze squares. Apply these to the under-eye areas. Relax with the potato compress on your under-eye area for about half an hour. Then wash off with cool water and use a moisturizer.

Tips for the Care of Your Eyes

Other than giving your eyes the right kind of feeding, sleep is also very vital for clear healthy eyes. Sleep is also imperative for mental and physical health. You need at an average at least eight hours of sleep in a day; without it, your eyes become dull, puffy and red. Dark circles also appear.

Eye problems can arise from stomach ailments. Lemon juice in warm water, first thing in the morning, keeps your stomach free from disorders.

A great reviver for tired eyes, if you just don't have time for a nap, is to relax for ten to fifteen minutes with cotton pads soaked in weak warm tea placed on the eyelids.

This rests and brightens the eyes. A variation of this warm tea compress is a compress of witch hazel (witch hazel should be available at most good chemists). Just soak cotton pads in witch hazel and use in the same way.

Removal of Eye Make-Up (Tips and Guide)

The under-eye area has a minimum of oil glands. It is probably the most delicate part of your face.

Always remove eye make-up with the greatest possible care, being careful not to stretch or tug the skin around .the eyes.

Use an eye make-up remover. Johnson’s Baby Oil is an excellent eye make-up remover.

Soak a small swab of cotton wool into your remover. Remove make-up with gentle arid light strokes.

The Best Way of Applying Mascara

Although eye shadow defines and dramatizes your eyes, only your eyelashes are in a position actually to reflect color into the eyes themselves.

To really emphasize the color of your eyes, you must frame them with a related shade of mascara.

The best way of applying mas­cara is to look down into a mirror while applying your mascara wand to the base of the top eyelashes. Float the mascara wand through the lashes. Repeat as often as you like.

Next, looking up into the mirror, stroke the mascara wand over the lower lashes in a downward direction. Use the tip of the brush.

Now you have not only lengthened, thickened and colored your eyelashes, but also intensified your eye color and made the whites of your eyes seem whiter.

Use an eyelash curler. Curling eyelashes has a great eye-opening effect; and it only takes a second.

Eye Shading Guide – Tips for Eye Shading

Shading and highlighting used correctly add contour and intensity to the eyes.

Pressed powders are easy to apply, while creams give you a silky long-lasting color and a lustrous look.

The best way to apply an eye shadow is to raise your chin and then look down into a mirror. Apply the eye shadow either with the aid of a brush or a foam-tipped applicator.

If you prefer not to use the eye shadow in summer, 'that's okay. But do give this a try.

With a brush, draw a thin line of brown cake eye shadow just into the crease of the eyelid and blend. 'Don't blend down on to the eyelid, just follow the crease.

Shaping Your Eyebrows

The frame of your eyes should be attractively shaped. Eyebrows should be plucked gently from underneath to form a clearly defined arch.

Here is a trick for finding out the cor­rect length of your brows.

Hold a pencil in front of your nose and per­pendicular to it, with its base being close to the outer nostril. The top end of the pencil will point to where the eyebrow line should begin.

Gradually shift to top end of the pencil until it crosses the extreme edge of the eye. The tip end of the pencil will indicate where the brow line should end.

Simple Eye Exercise for Relaxing Strained and Tired Eyes

* Wherever you happen to be sitting, close your eyes and cup the palms of your hands gently over them. Shut out all the light, but be careful never to press on the eyeballs.
Take a few deep breaths. Think black. Shut out everything from your mind except the idea of black.

* Roll your head without moving the shoulders. This move­ment relaxes the eyes and lessens developing wrinkles due to strain. The fresh flow of blood encouraged by the head roll brings the needed nourishment to the tissues. Strain eases away with only a few minutes of this movement.

* Another useful trick is to close your eyes and think of something pleasant for a few moments. Open your eyes and look into the distance for a few moments. This relaxes the eyes and their surrounding muscles. Focus again, this time on an object at an arm's length.
Repeat this exercise several times a day.

* Raise your eyes diagonally leftwards to the ceiling, and then lower them to the floor.
Repeat the exercise raising your eyes diagonally rightwards. Do it at least seven times.