It’s one of the most common things clients say to me, almost word for word. People keep asking if they’re alright, if they’ve slept badly, if they’re coming down with something, and they haven’t and they aren’t. They’ve had a full night’s sleep and feel completely fine. Their face just isn’t saying that.
That mismatch is real, and it isn’t about sleep at all. It’s about what’s happening structurally under the eye.
The under eye area loses fat and volume earlier and more noticeably than most of the rest of the face, and the skin there is some of the thinnest on the body to begin with. As that volume softens, a hollow appears along the tear trough, and because the skin covering it is so thin, the shadow that hollow creates reads instantly, to you and to everyone looking at you, as tired. No amount of sleep changes a structural hollow. It was never going to.
It’s also, honestly, the area I take most seriously in terms of who should be treating it. The skin is thin, the blood vessels sit close to the surface, and it takes a genuinely light, precise touch to treat well. Get it wrong and the result can look more obvious, more shadowed or discoloured, than the hollow you started with. This isn’t an area to shop around for the cheapest appointment.
Done properly, it’s also one of the most transformative things I treat, because it’s answering a complaint people have carried for years without ever having language for it beyond 'I just look tired all the time.' Once the hollow is addressed properly, that comment usually just stops.
If you recognise that feeling, being told you look tired when you know you’re not, it’s worth having that area looked at properly rather than reaching for another concealer. It’s not in your head, and it’s not about how much sleep you’re getting.
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Love, Penny