4-Minute Secret to Reduce Dark Eyes Circles

Hi and a warm welcome back to my channel. My name is Danielle Collins and today I'm going to be showing you a little routine that you can use if you get dark circles under the eyes. Now dark circles can be genetic, they can be related to allergies, they can be related to intolerances, perhaps they can be related to lack of sleep or a lot of stress, so lots of reasons why we can get dark circles and sometimes they can be quite hard to eliminate. But what I'm going to show you is a few techniques you can do which really boost the circulation, help to improve the lymphatic drainage around the eye area. So whatever the reason you get those dark circles, these techniques should at least help to reduce but hopefully if you do them regularly they will eliminate them. I've seen lots and lots of people use these techniques and completely eradicate their dark circles under the eyes and what I really recommend is after this you make sure you drink a big glass of water, it's just going to help with that detoxification process. And another top tip is make sure you don't drag the delicate area around the eyes in day-to-day life, this can really aggravate those dark circles. So you want to make sure you've got super clean hands, nice long spine, shoulders relaxed and we're going to start by just taking our index finger, just come under the eyes and work all the way around, so nice and gently. Now if you find you're quite heavy-handed here or you feel as though you're dragging the skin, you may want to grab a mirror and actually see if you're dragging the skin. I would change that just to that ring finger instead, we tend to be a little bit gentler when we use that one and really work with the breath here, so breathe in through the nose and breathe out through the nose as you do it. So this is really aiding with that lymphatic drainage, so we're helping to remove those toxins, giving that lymphatic system a little helping hand, it really responds well to massage and we can really help to drain any lymph. And then just coming to this little acupressure point here, just holding there, take a deep breath in and a deep breath out and then as we're doing acupressure, we're just going to move down to a little acupressure point here. This one is great for the cheek area, it's very good for circulation around the cheeks, however this one is very renowned, particularly in Ayurveda, for being good for reducing dark circles under the eyes, it just helps to release any stagnant energy, just help that prana flow a little bit more effectively, so even though we're not directly working on the eyes here, this all makes a big difference. Then just take that same index finger, both hands now and just working all the way around the eyes, nice and gently here, use your breath, inhale through the nose, exhale through the nose and we're using quite light touch here, we don't want to go too heavy-handed again, so start super gentle, you can build up a little bit but remember gentle is still helping to boost the circulation, really bringing all the fresh blood, fresh nutrients and oxygen right up to the skin surface and this is really going to help to feed the skin, really reduce the appearance of those dark circles. So, just going around a couple more times there and then just bring your hands down, so doing both those techniques of the massage around and the tapping every day and both your acupressure points every day and remember to drink your water and be really delicate with this area, particularly when removing eye makeup. If you'd like more information about face yoga, you can go to faceyogaexpert.com, you can follow me on Instagram at faceyogaexpert, I'm also on Facebook, the face yoga expert. Take care, bye-bye.