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The skin under your eyes might be the most noticed skin you have. Skin care under your eyes is very different than anywhere else. Click the link for more info.

It's a question I've had since forever, so I figure there may be others who've also wondered.

Below, Dr. Rhoda S. Nairns, clinical professor of dermatology at New York University School of Medicine and president of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, gives the most complete, understandable and logical answer I've ever come across.

It appeared in the February 2005 issue of Scientific American, in their "Ask the Experts" feature.

Dr. Nairns omitted two things that perhaps she takes for granted you'd be aware of.

I, on the other hand, know that one should take nothing for granted insofar as it involves joeheads.

Let me note the two most important things you can do to mitigate the severity of dark circles and bags under your eyes:

1) Avoid sunlight to the face. It destroys skin, rendering it prematurely old and inelastic.

2) Avoid cigarettes. The constituents of cigarette smoke age blood vessels prematurely, destroying the microcirculation. When subcutaneous tissues don't get blood, they also stop receiving oxygen and die. Dead connective tissue sags.

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