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One of these people slept badly last night.
Which one?
I know you are making assumptions. You're looking at their dark circles.
Uh-uh, bad idea my friend! Bad idea, bad idea…!
Lack of sleep or fatigue is often blamed for dark circles.
And yet, every article I've found where there really is an objective measurement of
dark circles based on lack of sleep…
We can't find a correlation.
On the other hand, I grant you, culturally, we associate the presence of dark circles with fatigue.
That is true.
So it has entered into common belief, even among professionals, I would tell you.
But I couldn't find any proof.
Your dark circles are not an indicator of fatigue.
I know, for me too it's a little hard to believe.
In reality, most of the reasons why we have dark circles or not…
these are reasons over which we have no real control.
Let's say that you are one of the people who have dark circles that tend to be pink, mauve, blue,
in these shades.
Well if it's these shades there, it's because the area under the eyes is a
very special part of the body.
The skin is super thin.
We are talking about an epidermis 1mm thick.
And inevitably, when something is extremely thin, you end up seeing through it.
And it looks like this.
And there, beeeen quite frankly it was your genetics that decided for you if we
would see all the blood vessels in this area.
Depending on your skin thickness, if you tend to have
dilated, large and large blood vessels in that area…
inevitably it ends up showing.
These dark circles of that color are dark circles of vascular origin.
But somewhere, it means that you are someone that's full of life, blood flows
freely within you and you can see it thanks
to the rainbow that you have in front of you!
Besides, I don't know if you know
the technique of applying a cold teaspoon on your dark circles, I imagine it's
to try to cool the area, thus reducing the size of the blood vessels
and making them less visible.
Frankly, I have no idea if it works, but if it does, I
doubt the effect will last more than a few minutes.
Be that as it may, if your dark circles tend more towards a brown color, all the techniques
that intervene on the size of the blood vessels will have no effect.
Because it's a different type of dark circle! This one, the one that is rather brown, is actually
a surplus of pigmentation.
A little as if you had tanned very locally, there's too much melanin.
And this type of dark circles is more present in darker skintones while rather vascular dark circles
are more present in lighter skintones.
If you have this type of hyper-pigmented dark circle, enjoy it because tanned skin is in fashion.
Except that you have already done a little too much tanning in a very local way.
My friends, use sunscreen!
Another type of dark circle is what is
rather called bags under the eyes.
And unlike the previous two, this one has a link with age.
It so happens that in the anatomy of this zone there is a little fat.
And this fat is retained by ligaments which are themselves attached to the bones of the face.
Except that with age, we lose bone volume and that then pulls the ligaments backwards,
because the bone goes backwards.
And so that ligament becomes much tighter.
Except that the skin also become looser so the fat that was there tends
to go down a little bit.
But since it's still held in place by that ligament, which is very tight, in the end
you end up with a fatty mass, with a pocket here where the fat is held in as
if it were in a hammock.
I too am a pile of fat retained by the hammock…
And then there is another type of dark circle which depends on the position of the light.
Because if you ever have a muscle in your eyelid that hangs over the top a bit.
Well, a light like that coming from above will create a shadow, simply because
there's the muscle which is there, just below and it will give the impression of a dark circle.
Or if you have a ligament here that's a little tight, same thing.
It will create a shadow that will give the impression of a dark circle.
And all those dark circles, actually… they're shadows.
Which disappear if the light is moved and placed right in the person's face.
And then there are the lucky men and women who combine several types of dark circles at the same time:
vascular, pigmentary, bags under the eyes, anatomical specificities, etc...
And that's without counting also certain diseases, inflammation and certain problems
that will cause dark circles, or an accumulation of fluids under the eyes…
But we were content to speak only of people who are in good health and who nevertheless have
dark circles.
My conclusion from all this is that our dark circles, despite everything you may read,
are not our fault.
We are born with predispositions or not, and then we grow old and the bags under the eyes
happen.
And in a way, the negative or positive interpretation that we make of our
dark circles, it's up to us.
We can see the younger generations right now on Tiktok even playing with their dark circles
and going so far as to add some as a new beauty trick.
So it may be temporary, but we can decide that our dark circles...
are not a problem.
Verdict? It was him.
You didn't need to look at the severity of his dark circles or eye bags.
No, you had to be smarter than that.
He had a loyalty card
for coffee.
*Moment of cool*
Good thing ridicule does not kill.
So, now that we've said all that, I'd like to add a little nuance to everything
I've presented to you.
In particular, I have classified dark circles like that into several categories, as if
there were a simple classification of only a few categories and that's it.
In reality, it's more complicated than that.
There is no official classification of the different types of dark circles.
So I was inspired by 2-3 articles in particular which attempted to make this classification.
But obviously it's not completely exhaustive and then we can look at things
in a different way.
We worked with a color-based classification; one could look for a classification
based on cause.
Why is there hyperpigmentation, why are there
blood vessels, etc…
And that's another story.
And also you will have noticed that I have hardly presented you with solutions,
treatments for dark circles.
Because it's...
not that easy, because there isn't ONE treatment for *dark circles*.
As we've seen, there are plenty of causes for dark circles so it's very variable.
There are really going to be treatments that are suitable for certain types of dark circles.
And as dark circles are often multifactorial, well, it's hard to know what treatment
is needed.
So we can't say "you have this type of dark circle, so you have this treatment" (which
was kind of my hope before starting the video).
But whatever happens, if you ever buy a concealer cream, check: ok but
what type of dark circle is it for? And are you really aware of the type
of dark circles you have? Plus, does this cream really work anyway?
Not easy…
Not easy.
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