Under-eye care
Your under-eyes changed faster than the rest of you.
When you lose weight quickly, the skin under your eyes is the first place to show it. Here is exactly why that happens — and what a cream can and cannot do about it.
Why it happens there first
The skin under your eye is about half a millimetre thick — roughly a quarter of the skin on your cheek. Underneath it sits a small pad of fat that gives the area its shape. It was never large, because it only had to fill a shallow space between your eye and your cheekbone.
When you lose weight quickly, your body draws down fat stores everywhere, your face included. Most places have enough in reserve that the change is gradual. The under-eye doesn't. A small absolute loss is a large proportional one — and the skin that used to sit smoothly over that pad now has less underneath it to sit on.
What you see in the mirror isn't really a colour. It's a shape. The surface has become slightly concave, and a concave surface catches shadow. That shadow is what reads as tired.
Why your concealer stopped working
Concealer corrects colour. You have a topography problem.
Adding a light-reflecting product to a hollow doesn't fill the hollow. It sits in it, creases along the fold by mid-afternoon, and often draws more attention to the shape than the shadow did on its own.
You aren't doing it wrong. You're using the right tool on the wrong problem.
Most eye products are built for the opposite problem
Walk down the eye-care aisle and nearly everything there is designed to reduce puffiness — caffeine to constrict vessels, cooling applicators to move fluid, hydrogel patches to draw water out.
Those are all solutions for having too much under the eye. Yours is the opposite. At best they do nothing. At worst, a product designed to deflate the area makes a hollow slightly more hollow.
The product
KOÍLOS Peptide Eye Cream
A peptide cream for under-eye skin that has become thinner, drier and more lined than it used to be. Applied morning and night, patted with the ring finger — the skin there is too thin to drag around.
It is lightly tinted with mineral pigment, so it does something visible on contact as well as something slower underneath.
- Actives
- Hexapeptide-11 · Dipalmitoyl Hydroxyproline
- Hydration
- Sodium PCA · Glycerin · Propanediol
- Tint
- CI 77491, pure mineral pigment
- Certification
- COSMOS NATURAL, certified by ECOCERT · 99% natural origin
- Size
- 15 ml / 0.5 fl oz — about six to eight weeks of twice-daily use
- Fragrance
- Contains fragrance from natural essential oils. Not fragrance-free.
What this won't do
Nothing you put on your skin will replace fat that your body used. We aren't going to claim otherwise, and you should be suspicious of anything that does.
What a topical can change is the skin sitting over that space — and that matters more than you'd expect. Rapid weight loss tends to leave that skin drier and less resilient at the same time as it loses support underneath. Dry, thin skin creases into fine lines more readily, looks crepey in raking light, and scatters light unevenly, which deepens the shadow. Skin that is properly hydrated and intact sits smoother, catches light more evenly, and reads as rested over the same underlying shape.
It won't give you your face back. It will make the skin over that area look smoother, better hydrated and less tired — which, for most people, is most of what they were actually looking at.
On how long it takes. Most people see nothing for the first three weeks. Eight weeks is when to judge it. Anyone promising a visible change in seven days is selling you the tint and calling it a result.
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