Dark circles under your eyes might reveal a couple of "dark truths" about your personal health. They usually occur when you're overtired or developing an illness or an allergy. They can also result from losing a lot of weight. But the discolorations--the result of engorged blood vessels around your eyes--are themselves medically harmless. In fact, sometimes they're not even an indication of physical problems.

Everyone gets dark circles under the eyes at various points of time in their lives. The dark circles are often temporary and are not harmful. Contrary to popular belief dark circles under the eyes are not caused by FATIGUE! One of the most common causes of dark circles under the eyes is nasal congestion. In nasal congestion the veins that drain from the eyes into the noses get widened and darker!

The first place to show the first signs of aging is the area around eyes. Why? Well, since the skin surrounding your eyes are thinnest there, it is also the most susceptible to the elements. Also, beneath the skin near your eyes are not equipped with fat or oil glands for protection from damage. We blink, rub and squint our eyes everyday. This hastens the aging process of the skin. As we age, the body does not produce enough collagen and elastin needed to maintain the skin's elasticity.

The dark circles we sometimes see surrounding our eyes are caused by different reasons. The most common cause is actually traced back through genetics --- it is hereditary. When we say it is hereditary, it does not simply mean that your parents pass it on to you but actually made up of different factors.. Some people have naturally thin and more transparent skin than others. The blood passing through the blood vessels often create a bluish color that may be seen through the thinnest skin: around the eyes.

Dark Circles:

Before applying concealer gently pat a light eye cream under the eye to moisturize the skin. Use your ring finger to pat on moisturizer and concealer since the skin in this area is extra delicate and the ring finger, which has the least amount of strength, is less likely to pull or tear. To apply concealer use a concealer brush (similar to a lip brush with soft bristles) to get in those hard to reach areas such as the inner corners of eyes and to get concealer exactly were you want it.. Apply the concealer under your eyes up as far as the lash line to the inner corners. Do not apply concealer to you eyelids because your eye shadow will crease. Then, pat to blend with your ring finger.

One method that you may well have heard of is using cool tea bags and cucumber slices, but how does it work? Well, the purpose of the cucumber is to reduce puffiness and refresh the skin, whilst the tannin from the cool tea bags aims to reduce the discoloration and swelling around the eyes. As you can imagine, this method does take a bit of preparation time, plus there are better alternatives such as using eye creams.

Haloxyl improves blood circulation in the tiny vessels in the delicate skin under our eyes, removing waste products including hemoglobin, which give the darkened color to the skin here. Haloxyl reduced these dark circles by more than 60 percent in trials with human volunteers.