For Your Eyes Only

When it comes to skin care, we’re pretty savvy about all the essential steps. Cleansers are vital for washing away dirt, grime and sebum; serums deliver supercharged ingredients to address dark spots, improve collagen production and reduce the appearance of fine lines; and moisturisers are non-negotiables to hydrate dry skin and deliver a plumping effect.

When we come to speak about the eye care department, it is often shrouded in mystery. Do we need to use one every day and do they even work? Often times we find ourselves questioning the legitimacy of such. But the truth is, it does work if you use it diligently.

Then there’s the next question – do we use the eye serum or the eye cream or both? 

This is really a question of preference, as well as the products you are using. According to scientists and multitude of researches, eye serums will pack more of a punch long term, but might not be as comforting on a daily basis as they aren’t as emollient as an eye cream, in the same way that face serums aren’t as emollient as a moisturiser. 

Traditionally, serums are formulated to be more fluid than cream. Serums are more of a gel-like consistency that absorb quickly, easily and generally don’t leave any residue on the skin’s surface. This makes them ideal for application under makeup. An eye serum will plump up the skin to provide a smoother base for makeup, minus any oiliness on the surface that could potentially interfere with your makeup application. Eye serums are also best applied underneath eye creams. 

An eye serum may or not be on the top of your list when it comes to beauty, but there are a lot of fans and skin care experts out there who’ll tell you they’re a necessity. An eye serum uses much of the same theory to a regular face serum. Serums as we know, are designed for the long game rather than shorter-term goals. Traditionally, they are known to penetrate deeper into the skin to target cells that aren’t yet at the top surface level. It is important to know that the skin around the eye is 30% thinner and more fragile than that of other areas of the face and hence more sensitive to aging factors. Blinking around 20,000 times a day can cause the skin to lose its vitality and gravity’s undesirable effects on both the upper lids and skin beneath the eyes, causes eye bags and puffiness, which some of us brand as “Gucci Bags” or “Prada Bags”. With all these happening, the eye area is undoubtedly the first part of the face to show signs of aging. 

Ladies, using an eye serum has a lot of benefits. It can minimise the look of dark circles. Yes, those unsightly bags that can add on an extra decade onto your appearance. The skin under the eye is so thin that it actually shows and puffiness surely exacerbates it. It also reduces wrinkles and fine lines that can be caused by prolonged sun exposure, tugging at the skin when removing makeup, lack of moisturising in the eye area or eye rubbing. The firming and smoothing qualities of an eye serum also provides for a better foundation and base layer in how your makeup applies and wears throughout the day. It preps your skin for makeup and at the same time, keeps the skin hydrated. Most of all, it combats aging. Supplements and extra sleep may help skin make baby steps to return to its normalised state, but only to a certain extent as experience usually suggests. To nudge the skin towards reaching its optimal health and beauty, the continued use of an eye serum is the best way to go, to ensure bright, revitalised eye appearance that contribute to your everyday glowing look. 

If having read all this isn’t already enough to convince you to include the eye serum into your daily skin care regime, then I don’t know what is. 

One particular eye serum that is currently trending in the market is the Skincode Exclusive Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum that is suitable for all skin types. It provides a tightening and lifting feeling and instantly illuminates the eye area while maintaining the skin’s health. 

Putting it into practice

Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum

15 ml | For All Skin Types

When it comes to skincare, the earlier the better. Many people start using eye serum or cream in their 30s—when they start noticing the first subtle crease on the outer corner of their eyes but even before you see a wrinkle, you can start as early as your 20s. That's because the best results come from prevention. The main goal of an eye serum is to brighten the eye area and reduce the look of fine lines while keeping skin at its optimum health. 

As women, we know too well that the skin is the first to suffer the moment we encounter stress, both internally and externally. If you want to ward of wrinkles, curb crow’s feet and say ta-ta to puffiness all while promoting a healthier, more youthful appearance, then the answer, is a wholehearted, affirmative yes to a miraculous, effective eye serum.

Just think of serum as a multivitamin that works from the inside out. They are chock full of nourishing, moisture-loving active ingredients that work wonders for your skin if applied regularly. With that in mind, Skincode introduced to us its powerful Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum that improves the skin immune system by strengthening the cells, thereby protecting the skin from and helping it fight against stressors that often make it dry, dull, and less resilient. 

This Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum is a multi-targeting silky gel serum that redefines and plumps the delicate skin around the eyes while removing dark circles, bags and reduces puffiness. These three little things can completely change the look of your face, making you look tired, drawn, and ultimately, old. Applying this wrinkle prohibiting eye serum formulated specially for this around the eyes can help reduce them quickly. And unlike the eye cream, this gel serum is lightweight and easily absorbed hence allowing the skin to absorb them with ease. 

In a digital world where we’re glued to our screens both at home and at work, where dry eye syndrome is increasingly common and where squinting-as-you-scroll is wrinkling the skin around our eyes, there’s never been a better time to start using a serum. The Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum helps illuminate the eye area, and not only do they restore suppleness and radiance to the skin, making your eyes look less tired, they also smooth the skin around your peepers allowing more light to be reflected into the eyes, leaving eye area brighter and more luminous.

Formulated with Active Cellular Regenerating Complex (ACR) and other key ingredients, this serum is completely free of any animal extracts. With its power packed components, the wrinkle prohibiting eye serum does more wonders than just those abovementioned. It visibly reduces appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, fights signs of aging, and significantly improves skin’s firmness and tonicity. Skin is an organ, and it needs maintenance. It is really never too early for maintenance. We are aging every day, so we should be anti-aging every day. 

Application

Whether you’re an eye serum or cream beginner or a veteran, there’s a chance you could be making some common mistakes with how you use (or don’t use) this essential skin care product. With the Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum, all you need to do is use one pump-full to smooth gently around the cleansed eye contour area. Apply along the orbital bone and gently massage around the eyes a couple of time and press in at temples to finish. Don’t get too overzealous with rubbing. Apply only gentle patting and tapping motions, using just the pad of your ring finger, which has a more delicate touch compared to your other digits. Simply dot the serum along the orbital bone, right under your eyebrow, and under your eyes in a semi-circle shape about half an inch below your lash line. Remember to avoid the soft part of the eye. Also, as the eye area is quite a small area, you don’t want to use too much of it. So a pea-sized pump-full will be enough to cover the skin around both eyes. 

For better results, apply the Skincode Exclusive Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Contour Cream after using this serum. The Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Contour Cream is a multi-targeting eye contour cream, concocted with a new and powerful ACR Complex fortified with an enhanced blend of active ingredients that stimulate the synthesis of ceramides, which improve the skin’s moisture retention capabilities and provide for a barrier against environmental irritants. This is custom repair just for your skin, targeting repair as needed and where needed. This rich, silky cream gel is designed to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, delay the emergence of new ones, reduce the appearance of dark spots and under-eye puffiness while significantly improving firmness, elasticity, luminosity and radiance. 

Incorporate both the serum and cream into your skin care routine and in just about 3 to 4 weeks, visible results will start yielding. 

Ingredients

The Skincode Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum is powered with Active Cellular Regenerating Complex (ACR), a key ingredient in the Skincode Exclusive’s series which comprises of Syn®-Tacks, a blend of Tri-peptide and Tetra-peptide-7, which increases cellular communication and improves epidermal nourishment that reduces wrinkles, increases skin tonicity and firmness and thereby improves skin’s compactness. 

It also contains Sodium Hyaluronate which is a super hydrating ingredient. It can hold one thousand times its weight in water. It works to regulate moisture balance of the skin and has a high capacity to retain moisture. It gives immediate smoothness to rough skin surfaces and significantly improves skin’s appearance thus reducing dryness, itching and burning of the skin. This ingredient offers an excellent environment for the growth of new cells and the healing of existing cells.

Other ingredients include Caffeine which contains anti-asthenic and diuretic properties that help detoxify tissues, thus reducing local fat deposits and puffiness, and CytobiolTM Lumin-Eye, an optimised blend of ash bark extract, organic silicon and vitamin B3 that work together for a good veinotonic activity. To break it down, the ash bark extract, rich in fraxin and esculin, decreases the permeability of blood capillaries, conferring a vasculo-protective action and has an anti-oxidant effect. The Silicon helps reinforce the structure and elasticity of the vessels. While the vitamin B3 (also called vitamin PP) stimulates collagen synthesis and reinforces the barrier function of the skin and the structure of the basal layer of the blood vessels, thus helping restore a normal blood flow and leaving skin looking less puffy, smoother and brighter. The Elder Flower Extract in the serum, originated from plants cultivated in the Swiss Alps, has a distinct anti-inflammatory effect, helps decrease vascular permeability and has anti-oedema properties. The Cellular Wrinkle Prohibiting Eye Serum also boasts the Pro Vitamin B5 that contains anti-inflammatory, protecting and moisturising actions. It helps restore and maintain natural skin moisture, leaving the skin feeling velvety and smooth whilst the Photo-Reflector confers radiance on the complexion by reflecting light.

Take time out of your busy schedule to take care of yourself, set aside some me time, and treat the experience of serum application as though you were in a spa, is the perfect way to unwind, de-stress and take a time out from the toils of modern life.