Every 4 years, I shake off my label of “football idiot” and wear the mantle of “football fan” – maybe not quite fan, but once every 4 years… like NOW! I stay up past my bedtime and wake up at unGodly hours to catch football matches on telly, scream at the referee for being blind and yell “Goal!” and “Offside!” along with the best of ’em. Yes folks, I’m a FIFA World Cup fan – not a football fan per se. (and I don’t support any team 😛 )
Incidentally, while typing this post, I kept typing “foodball” – that would be fun won’t it? 😛 So with late nights, little sleep and then suddenly being slammed with an avalanche of work, I have Louis Vuitton trunks under my eyes. Not mere eye bags for this snob 😛
Here’s a set of eye patches I’ve been trying out. I mean I like my bags, but heck no! Not under my eyes!
These eye patches are part of Guerlain’s Super Aqua range and are said to be “anti-puffiness smoothing eye patches”. “Anti-puffiness” That’s a good thing! Now how does it fare?
Each set of gel patches comes sealed in individual blue sachets. When you open it (from bottom left corner – don’t try to rip it apart as I did 😛 ) you will see 2 large pieces of gel patches. They are slippery and it takes some doing to peel them off the plastic sheet they are on.
Because they are slippery, once you slap them on your face, they do have a tendency to slip a little so my advise is NOT to be like me and think you can wear these and walk around the house, but put these on and lie back to rest.
Place the eye patch on the lower eye area and put it as close to your lashline as possible. It is surprisingly large (or maybe my eye area is small) so it covers a very large area of my under eye area up till my cheekbones.
After about 15 minutes, I removed it and looked in the mirror. Holy Schmoly! My LV trunks were shrunk down to pochettes! 😛
The picture above says it all right? Huge ugly red puffy eye bags before and much reduced redness and less puffiness after.
Heck I was ready to slam this for an expensive experiment but I have to grudgingly admit that it is an expensive experiment that works. The best part is that it remained less puffy for about 4 days before my hectic lifestyle took its toll. You are recommended to use this twice a week. If I were rolling in it, I would but because I’m not, I’m saving this for when I can no longer bear the sight of my eye bags – or when I have to look alive quickly.
So what’s the damage to the pocket? Are you sitting down? RM361 for a box of 6 pairs of eye patches. That’s right. Time to pick your jaw off the floor and dust it off.
Pros: Works as it says to reduce puffiness, Cooling feel
Cons: Expensive, Tends to slide around
If you have an eye bag problem, you’d realize that with eye bags, you tend to look tired and sleepy, which may not inspire confidence.
In my case, as mine are due to insufficient sleep, the only true cure is lots of sleep. Once I’ve had a good night’s rest, my eye bags go away. But in those times when I need a quick cure, finding a quick short term solution is helpful.
I know this isn’t for everyone due to the price but remember, its from Guerlain – a luxury brand and hence comes with luxury prices – so I won’t ask if you’d try it because I know not many of you will 🙂
Paris B
Guerlain Super Aqua Anti-Puffiness Smoothing Eye Patch retails at RM361 for a box of 6 pairs at all Guerlain counters.
I think I just lost my jaw to the floor.
*picks up Jessica’s jaw, dusts it off and hands it back* Sorry Jess, found it under the chair!
Phew! Lucky me you found it, still in time for the jaw reconstruction! 😉
Yup save you getting replacement parts LOL
Whoa thats pricey! But they give really good results it seems. Maybe when I finally win the lottery 😛
I’m like you too, I always multitask with masks on. Just made dinner with a sheet mask on! If I just lie down I’ll probably doze off 🙂
Hehe… good luck with the lottery! 😀 I’m always pottering around when I have my masks on – or watching telly 😀
Super expensive but super effective! I don’t think I have much eye bags, but I have huge dark circles from lack of sleep and not much incentive to do anything about it… 😛
Concealer!!! 😀
wow expensive stuff!!! my friend swears by the one by SKII, well just as expensive i think. i will stick back to my normal eye-cream for now.
Eye creams don’t help me unfortunately, but an inexpensive method would be a cool spoon – gives similar results.
*Crawls into bed and sleeps at 8.00 PM every night*
Glad that it works for you, Paris, me, ima investing in less gaming and more concealers, wakakaka. Thank God i’m not an eyebag person, but a dark circle one.
Haha… I’m in bed latest by 11pm else its eye bags galore!
That’s RM60 per pair @@”…but looks very amazing on how it helps to “de pufff”
Ya – not for the faint hearted 😛
yeah yeah, I’m burning midnight oil for the football also…. whoa, its really an eye-opening price!! haha…don’t think I have the luck to try on this. I go for the cheaper way… a cold tablespoon and a cup of unsweetened black coffee.
No coffee for me! Makes eye bags worse actually. Cool teaspoon does help 🙂
the price, ouchies! but it really worked on u PB.
now, i’m really curious about what to do with the cup of unsweetened black coffee that Ling said 😀
I think she means to drink it? LOL… I’m not sure. I know some people use tea bags but since I don’t drink tea – its out of the question 😀 Lets hope Ling comes back and enlightens us 😉
WOW! Now that is what u call a RESULT!! Cool ,something that actually shows visible signs of anti-puffiness!! hahaha… but it’s like so expensive! Well I guess if u want results, u have to cough up a bit more… looks like u found a winner~~ haha…
Haha yeah was so surprised that it worked too :p
how long does the effect last, me wonder….
About 4 days as I’ve noted 🙂 provided I don’t indulge in late night too often
oh, the black coffee? is to drink it… there’s a scientific explanation… caffeine is a mild diurectic, which can stimulate the mechanism of micturition, excreting water from your body and thus helps to get rid of water retention. hmm.. also… it stimulates some form of parasympathetic activity eg, increase gastric juice secretion & increase bowel movement. So, if u taken in the morning, it acts like engine starter heating up your body faster, which in turn using up the excessive water stored overnight. Ok… I guess it’s complicated here ^_^ anyway, it works on me and i’m strong believer of that…
Paris, coffee make your eye bags worse? now is my turn to get curious…
Ya cos coffee keeps me awake hence no sleep hence worse bags :p I only ever take coffee in the morning and never after 2pm 🙂
I can see a HUGE difference, WOW!!
Heh yup!
It’s not THAT expensive if you compare it to prices of eye treatments these days. And since they do work….it’s worth it, I say.
I need something to magically erase dark eye rings in 15 minutes, that’s what!
Hmm I have the cure for you – concealer 😉
Oh my oh my oh my. I have really bad dark circles and the worst eyebags amongst anyone I know which I’ve had for years and have never diminished regardless of me sleeping early and all that. Am looking for good eyecream recommendations though. Know any?
This Guerlain one is crazy expensive but wow, it sure does work. Hmmmmm…
I’ll be perfectly honest – I don’t use eye creams. Can’t be dedicated enough so I only use it when I remember. Sorry no help! Sometimes eye bags and circles are hereditary so we can’t help those 🙁
wow, the results are amazing! It worked so well for you and it’s good to know the results last a few days too. But ouch, this stuff is super expensive!
Yup! ouchies 😛