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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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