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For the 100th time, I'm not tired, I just need a good eye cream. Eyes, you see, age us faster than a lip line two shades darker than the lippy. Thank goodness the beauty companies are working night and day to come up with a cream that can make us all look well-rested.
1. Prevage Eye Anti-Ageing Moisturizing Treatment
$165 for 15ml
This isn't due until March 19, but we're counting. We're fans of the original Prevage, the lovechild of Elizabeth Arden and Botox-maker Allergan, and the eye treatment shows every sign of being as effective. Both have the powerful antioxidant idebenone, but this has added juice in the form of I-Seryl Complex, fancy-speak for a special blend of ingredients that includes peptides, algae extract and Haloxyl to help puffiness, dark circles and crow's feet.
* From selected department stores and pharmacies.
2. Dior Capture Totale Multi-Perfection Eye Treatment
$150 for 15ml
Sharon Stone is the face of Dior's Capture Totale range. She's looking younger than ever these days. "I've always said that, if I had to, I'd hang upside down like a bat, but what I will never do is cut my face or change my physical appearance in this way," says Ms Stone. Must be a combination of this range and airbrushing that works for her, but I'm sold. This has all manner of complexes to help to reduce circles and smooth and firm skin.
* From selected department stores and pharmacies.
3. Dermactin-TS Anti-Wrinkle Eye Cream
$95 for 38.45ml
With more ingredients than a recipe from El Bulli's Ferran Adria, all you have to do is apply twice a day to get an improvement in the appearance of fine lines, crow's feet and dark circles. The original Dermactin-TS was made to help stretchmarks, but some brave soul found it fabulous on the face. If the story sounds familiar, it is. It is cult product StriVectin-SD's creation story.
* From selected pharmacies.
4. Lancome Absolue Premium Bx Yeux Advanced Replenishing Eye Cream
$149 for 15ml
There's a new Absolue Premium Bx range specially for 50 to 60-year-olds. Its motto: repair, nourishment and radiance. The line is patent-heavy starring Pro-Xylane to "redensify and restructure the fundamental matrix that irrigates skin's three compartments". It may sound heavy, but the "bio-assimilation" from brown algae, soya, barley and wild yam means the eye area looks smoother, denser, nourished and rested.
* From selected department stores and pharmacies.
5. Chanel Precision Ultra Correction Eye Total Eye Revitalizer
$186 for the kit
This kit demands time and effort, so you must be committed. For anyone 45 and over, this 10-minute treatment can do wonders in 10 days. The roll-on serum is followed by a massage technique that should be strictly adhered to, and is followed by the eye patches which need to stay on for 10 minutes. It sounds a palaver but for revitalised, tight skin, diminished dark circles, less puffiness and crow's feet, it's nothing.
* From selected department stores and pharmacies.
