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Hello, I’m Dr. Neal Schultz
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and welcome to DermTV.
Dark under eye circles make you look tired
and make you look older and are
very frustrating to treat. A lot of products
out there promise to lighten
those circles but in reality and unfortunately
the only thing they lighten
is your wallet. The reason that these are
so difficult to treat is because
they are caused by any combination of seven
different problems.
There are two types of brown in the skin that
cause them at two different
levels of the skin. There are three types
of enlarged blood vessels: they
can be purple, blue, or pink. And there are
two types of shadows that cause
them: one shadow comes from the bulge of fat
from the lower lid as we get
older and the other comes from fine wrinkling
of the lower lid skin which
appears as parallel lines which when light
hits them from above causes
shadows just like light hitting open flat,
parallel Venice blinds.
Because it is so difficult to find the right
product for you, instead of
being frustrated and using random products,
if you have dark under eye
circles, see your dermatologist so he can
help you find out what the cause
of your circles are and help you treat them.