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Recommend me a good eye cream for 40 plus!

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Welshheart · 05/05/2020 18:27

Hi all. Can anyone recommend me a good eye cream for me, i haven't really bothered with one before now, but as im nearly 45, have a 2yr old to run around after and gone through a lot of stress the past year, due to separation and health issues, and recently started hrt after stopping my cycle..

The point im writing about is I have lots of undereye wrinkles which make me look (and feel) a lot older, also as well as the wrinkles i now get bags under which i never used to first thing in the morning, and slight puffiness which makes it look even worse...have always used concealer in this area as used to suffer with dark circles but now the wrinkles are more of an issue, and concealer just looks rubbish over it

I'm a bit confused when it comes to buying skincare as there are a LOT of products out there, and can be pretty expensive...do you get what you pay for do you think? The most i'm prepared to spend is £30 on eye care.
I've had a look at Olay, Nivea, Yeouth, Loreal, Neutrogena...and lots more that claim to work but if anyone actually uses one (that is in my age range) and is happy with it id be really ! if someone could give me a heads up..if it contains a sunscreen already that would be useful for preventing more(another thing ive not done) as cant really be doing with applying moisturiser plus eye cream plus sunblock every day..less products the better, i dont want it getting complicated!

Currently just use moisturiser with a spf, nivea was pretty cheap,and only during lockdown read that supposed to be using sunblock as well so i slap on a 50 that i got for my son....otherwise that's it.

Many thanks

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TheCanterburyWhales · 05/05/2020 21:42

I have tried lots of eye creams from Chanel and Dior to 99p from Superdrug. I stopped using them as wasn't convinced.

But, I recently got some Kiehl's mini pots, 3 different ones and bloody love them all!
Avocado eye cream- hydrates and plumps the eye area
Midnight Recovery- night time
One with copper something or other- been using this for about 4 days and swear the lines look less noticeable. Will prob buy a big pot of this one.

Ponks · 05/05/2020 22:43

For the puffiness the caffeine serum from The Ordinary is great, can be a bit drying . Inkey List also do one but not tried that yet.
For hydration I really like the Prai eye cream, it's about £25 and very hydrating so guess it helps fill the wrinkles in a bit. If you get their throat cream from M&S you get a free eye cream at the mo.

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