*Here are the 5 eye creams I ACTUALLY LIKE and recommend!* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bc6RhpCD2Z7Odqc.html

for the first time, I heard someone telling the truth, instead of advertising brands. Thank you :)

I’ve just accepted that dark undereyes is just something I have. It’s genetic and I’m not comfortable getting fillers or anything and concealers don’t fully cover it. It’s not ugly it’s my face! Oh well!!

I’m a licensed skincare specialist. What she’s saying is so true & I’m betting that the cosmetic companies would hate for the consumer to know the truth about skin!!!! Keep it simple, cleanse ur face nightly, get 7-9 hrs sleep and keep comfort food out of reach with the occasional reward!!!!!

Summary of the video: Dark under eye - use caffeine. Due to blood capillaries. Wrinkle - use retinol based product. Due to repetitively movement eyes make. Puffiness - use cold spoon (thermo therapy). Due to build up of fluid because of bad dietary.

I love the whole “turn and learn” notion. I find myself doing this with cosmetics, food, drinks. Even dog food. I’ve become much more consciously aware of chemicals I put on and in my body.

that little graphic that comes up when you say “turn & learn” makes me so happy hahaha

My mom is an aesthetician and she refuses to sell any eye creams to her clients because she has always said they are basically glorified moisturizers.

"....Rubbing dollar bills underneath your eyes, and hoping it absorbs..." I love it!! Thank you for having the integrity to use your platform to dispell the nonsense, whilst sharing helpful truths with those of us who were unsuspecting.and perhaps ill-informed about the cosmetic industry and skincare.

The biggest eye cream scam I ever saw was the La Mer eye cream. Literally just Vaseline and fragrance.

You're such a good teacher! I love the analogies like folding paper and wrinkles. Brilliant.

This was EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you so much for shedding light on eye creams and the different issues that can occur x

Cassandra, your channel is incredible! Being that I have my own training as an esthetician, nutritionist and herbalist I always go off on a tangent after watching your videos. Then, I find a video of yours on exactly what I was talking about right after! I LOVE your channel. I have been binging it and find it to be incredibly educational and fun 🤩 . I am learning so much and cannot tell you how helpful you are. Thank you so much for what you do!

Forever in awe of the endless information she has to share

Esthetician here: I agree with everything you said here but I wanted to add something. After using loads of eye creams in my career, I have noticed that many spa eye creams do address specific eye concerns. They tend to be non-fragrance and lighter weight. They seem to absorb better and are less irritating to they eye area that my facial creams. Some people just have dryness under their eyes and a lighter weight cream can be helpful. Beauty counters, box beauty stores and drug stores are over hyping their claims and a lot are useless. Thank you for your content. I appreciate the education you are bringing to the consumers.

Realist video ever. Much respect to you.I’ve had periorbital dark circles forever . Every time i went into Sephora they’d have me buying a million eye creams that never worked and then i realized creams don’t work for people like me. Thank you for it just promoting products like everyone else

And this is why I follow Cassandra. I showed this video to 2 of my dermatologist friends and they both say she's just stating the truth. Something influencers and cosmetic companies do not want you to know.

I love how i now watch your videos before buying new skincare products, currently filming a the ordinary one month review and I have seen soo many of your videos about the ordinary and they were so helpful in finding what I should buy and how to use it safely and properly!!

I’ve been super happy using The Ordinary Caffeine and Granactive Retinoid around my eyes. For me, the Granactive Retinoid isn’t irritating at all! I actually use Caffeine on my whole face due to your suggestion ☺️ I also use NIOD Fractionated Eye Contour Concentrate for loss of firmness.

GIRL thank you for some STRAIGHT answers, after lots of research, trial and error with care...I’ve learned just alittle more and will continue to build ‘my’ eye solution. Great video of explanation and solution. I’ve got some super stubborn dark circles haha

I agree, I heard a famous european dermatologist saying- " eye creams is a total waste of money !"

Was just about to buy an eye cream with my Sephora gift card, I’m so happy you talked me out of it

I love how you break down the scientific terms! Just stumbled upon your channel yesterday and recognized you from your old acne video! It’s amazing how far you’ve come from those days! Skin wise and career wise! So admirable ❤️

I can't believe KZfaq recommanded me your video. The last time I've watched a video of yours was like back in 2010 or something when you used to deal with severe acné. Im happy to see you are still around and doing great ☺️😙

This is SO informative! I like how you categorize the different issues and how these can be best accommodated! Skincare = selfcare! 💃🏼

I have been using Retin A all over my face for 8 years!! I am 47 years old and have no wrinkles!!😊💟

This girl is brutally honest and we absolutely love it!

Thank you! Finally I know what to look for! Most eye cream claim to help against puffy eyebags or wrinkles, but I need something against these dark eye circles. I hate how they claim puffy eyebags and dark eye circles are the same. They are not!

Omg you're like the science teacher I've been dreaming of, thank you so much 🥺

companies may hate you, but we love you!! thank you so much for the precious information 💓

Back then when I didn’t know anything about skincare, I bought something from elf and it was only for the eyes it was supposed to get rid of dark circles. It didn’t work at all

I'm trying to do the 10 step beauty routine but I wanted to skip eye cream and save some money, so I remember to learn from the best. Some products double as serum and treatments for me, so I cut down a few steps. :) Love you and James Welsh. Y'all are on the same page. I can't believe how much your channel (and skin) has progressed and changed over the years!

I need to thank you for teaching us so much. Too many people are talking about something they don't really know but here with your explainations it finally gives me real answers

You make me smile ❤ So true about the eye creams. Was in the trade for over 30 years and I was constantly telling my clients the same about miracle "eye creams " I never bought into the hype. Excellent video and so much amazing information..You talk so much sense.

Alright, I'm subscribing. I learned so much in just 11 minutes. Thank you for making complex matters graspable for everyone!

This girl is what I need to listen to ( along other useful channels of course) for my skin routine. Thank you!!!

I will say this. I have dark deep set hereditary eye circles. I was a huge sucker for eye creams and gels to help improve my eye looks. I decided to go to the drs and take a blood test to see if I have any deficiencies or allergies that might contribute to my under eye darkness/ circles. Turns out I’m anaemic, have a few vitamin deficiencies and I have mild allergies. Once I started eating cleaner and avoiding foods that would agitate my skin, my UNDER EYE DARK CIRCLES / BAGS have IMPROVED!!! Yes I still have darkness under my eyes but it is MUCH better than it was before. Also I stopped smoking and have tried to sleep 8 hours.

Me who just bought an eye cream watching this: 👁👄👁

I just love how much I learn watching your videos! You are inspiring! I’ve struggled with acne for what feels like my entire life. The struggle is real. Thanks to you I’ve transitioned to a whole food plant based diet, and I’ve been using Dr. Bronner’s soap, Juice Beauty Essence and jojoba oil!!! I feel so healthy, motivated, and grateful! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️ P.S. Could you please do a video like this on acne scars and textured skin? 🙏🏽

Wow.Just wow.I cannot thank you enough.I have dark circles,puffines and under eye circles. This video was not only educational,it was life changing. Once again,thank you!

Thank you so much!!! I've watched KZfaq for like 2/3 of my life and NEVER!!!! left a comment... You are so awesome and informative I actually felt it necessary to comment... You are AMAZING &THANK YOU!!!

Whao! The best explanations I've heard about skincare that you can understand. You use those Terms and explained what it means. So easy. Goid job and thank you. You learn everyday. 👏

Beside special treatments and eye-safe retinoids, I would also add one situation when a person would need a separate moisturiser for the eye area: oily skin. My skin is very oily (truly oily, it stays oily the whole year and the whole face, not just the t-zone) and the moisturisers I use for the face (water creams and lotions that are basically just hydrating agents) are simply not occlusive enough for the drier under-eye area. I need more fatty, occlusive ingredients for under eyes, so I use a different product there. However, I do not use creams that are marketed as eye creams, exactly for the reasons you stated in the video. I use face creams or sleeping packs that are intended for dry or dry to normal skin types. If it's in a jar, I scoop them over to a small travel box so that I only touch and expose to air and light a small amount at a time. They last forever as I only use a tiny bit.

I love how you said "to be inspired by the biology of your beauty" 😊 really made me smile

What you should look for in your eye cream: - Caffeine (constricts the vases, causing blood to accumulate less in the area and making it less purple); - Retinol (for wrinkles). For puffiness: - Thermo-therapy (i.e. eye-patches) or talk to a doctor in case of fat deposits in the area.

Obsessed with the way she explains stuffs.

I recently heard about pycnogenol, could you give us your professional thoughts on its use as an antioxidant?

I really like this video. She explains things so clearly and is really well spoken! Thank you for all this info. ❤

I can't believe that I sat still, listening to someone talking very fast and actually enjoying it. Thanks for the knowledge! I've been working in marketing so I don't let myself fall into its traps; I only have a big jar of soft Nivea cream that works well everywhere on the body and my skin is still healthy. However, it's still great to learn the details!

Your video is 11min 11 seconds. Angel sign!

I’ve always known in my HEART that eye creams were scams lol!

As a premed student I REALLY appreciate you breaking down each term and including several types of images

Thank you so much for be real with us viewers, I was looking for a channel like yours for too long. And most of all, thank you YT recommendation.

This is why ima just get The Ordinary ECCG and call it a day! Thank you for this (and your many other recently) to open my THIRD eye to the industry. 👁💙

Yes you right. When I start get enough sleep and rest my dark circle missing and they said always to moisturised your under eyes since everyone said face moisturiser and eye cream are same ingredient so I use it under my eyes and it works.

Thanks so much, great information. I've been arguing with my sister about this for years.!

Oh my God!!!! This is explained so scientifically yet so simply.... Thank you so much for making it easy to understand...

I stumbled upon your channel last week and I am so happy I did. I have learned sooooo much from you. I feel like I'm attending graduate school for chemistry. Now I can shop for skin care in a scientifically informed way. You are making me a savy consumer!! Thank you thank you thank you! Diane

I just have under eye lines. Theyre hereditary but it’s makes me looked stressed when in lighter places

So informative! You’re great at explaining everything in terms lay people can understand!!

There are lots of good and informative videos on KZfaq, but not outstanding information bombs like this. Thank you! I don't hit the bell often but now I did.

Hi Cassandra! Thanks for your video and for always sharing your knowledge, I really appreciate them. This particular video came in a great moment since I’m running out of an eye cream a friend once gave me as a present. Based on what you shared, I believe I have periorbital hyperpigmentation. I’ve had dark circles since forever (since aprox 10 years old), and always thought they were just dark circles that I could get rid off, but they have proven to be resilient. I wanted to ask you if I understood correctly what you said, if that is in fact my case, they will never go away? I don’t really mind them, I’m already used to them, but if there IS something I can do, I’d like to know. Thank you again for your videos! Sending you loads of respect and appreciation from Uruguay! 💙

I would literally love and enjoy taking your class if you were to ever be a professor at a college/university like this was amazing !

I find your videos incredibly informative; thank you so much for creating them! I’m learning new things about my skin every time

Hi Cassandra, thank you for a brutally honest review, we, your viewers, truly appreciate it. On the topic of anti-ageing (anti-wrinkles) eye creams - have you ever come across Sesderma's Retises Eye contour anti-wrinkle 0,05%? Can you advise anything based on the ingredients? Now that we know that retinol is key, I think that it would be very interesting to learn what concentration of retinol to look out for to avoid those with negligent amounts. Thank you so much if you take the time to answer my query. :)

This monday suddenly became much more interesting with a new Cassandra video 😍☕

THIS GIRL KNOWS HER SHIT!!! Thank you so much for this channel and all of your videos!!

Bobbi Brown extra eye repair ...I’m on my 3rd jar, and I can’t give it up it’s truly amazing! Best eye cream I have ever used...eye area looks so good ❤️🙌🏻

As as I want to agree with this whenever I stop using eye creams and use face moisturiser on my eye area I get milia or the area gets super dry. So if your eye cream helps then I would continue to use it. I recently tried the Niod fractionated eye serum and I must admit I can actually see a difference. When I finished it I used Cerave PM rather than spend again on the eye serum, but it caused dry patches so I'm back to eye creams. Guess it works for some people

You are so amazingly informed and explains so clearly! I love how you repeat turn and learn so now I will remember it!

I've been watching your videos ,sincerely this one is the best of the best ,thank you so much Cassandra you have no idea how many lives you change with this valuable information ,not only for make them save money ,knowledge is freedom, can't thank you enough for such an amazing video.

I'm also an esthetician and I have periorbital hyperpigmentation. It has worsened considerably with age. Im assuming to treat it the same way you would as hyperpigmentation like sun spots etc? I was considering plastic surgery but from what the doctor told me it sounded like he would just be removing fat. I have no inflammation. So thank you so much for this this video I will definitely reconsider the surgery.

The under eye area is a very sensitive one that needs a special formulation, that's why they are very similar to regular moisturizers. They avoid the irritating ingredients such as some active ingredients or preservatives. Some face moisturizers are safe for the eye area but not all of them!!

I am with you!!! i always felt the same. Thankyou for saying it out loud :)

I just used The inky list brighten eye cream and caffeine cream this week and it really seemed like it helped with puffy eyes and dark circles. I have always just used a moisturizer all over my face.

I have only moisturiser, but use sometimes hyaluronic acid serum for eyes.

When you mentioned hyperpigmentation around eyes I was hoping you’d also say what can be done with them 😔

Thank you so much for helping us to understand, and just being there for us so we can make good decisions.

I honestly wanna thank you that you are using this platform for the betterment of people rather than just making money out of it !!!

Then how do we get rid of periorbital hyperpigmentation? I've always wondered if it was possible to get rid of

Girl you break everything down so well and it’s easy to digest thank you so much love❤️

You literally saved me from wasting money but also damaging my skin. Cool eye patches? That’s all? And you were right. Thank you so much!

This was so helpful! Thank you 🙂

Can you talk about how skin colour makes a differnce with types of ingredients, I heard that with darker skin tones it tends to scar quicker and easily-

My problem is that my skin is oily but my undereye area is ridiculously dry, I can already see fine lines... So I could never use the same product for the whole face 😬 But it was a very useful video nonetheless 🤗

U actually spit the facts. Thanks!!

Finally! Someone expained me what to used and what not to use even more around my issue!! Thank youuuu

Hello mam, At 4:33 you mention caffeine causes vasoconstriction. I'd humbly like to correct a little. Caffeine acts on vascular smooth muscle cells and after a short vasoconstriction effect, it causes significant vasodilatation. The under eye swelling or puffiness (non medically used term) is caused due to accumulation of tissue fluid aka lymph. Blood cannot temporarily seep out of capillaries and then go back in. So the effect of caffeine at the end is as you mention - depuffing, the process is entirely different. Caffeine dilates the blood vessels basically, so the lymph drains out faster than it otherwise would. Even if you don't apply caffeine, it would drain ultimately, but it will take time. Caffeine helps hasten the process a bit.

i've been using the chanel le lift eye cream thing. one pot lasts me 3 months. I do love it. :v

this is accurate and straight to the point!!..I also spent a lot of money on eye creams because I have dark circles but honestly they didnt do anything. It is really a moisturizer in a small tube. even my regular moisturizer moisturizes my eye area better! :)

Thank you for being straight forward!

Question: would a caffeine serum help reduce the appearance of broken capillaries as well? Really great video!

I have a beautiful eye cream and honestly, I use it mostly because it sits nice under my concealer/foundation. For the most part, I just bring my B/C up around my eyes and add a moisturizer, done!

I just found you video and very impressed by your honest comments on eyes cream. Thank you for sharing !

Thanks so much for this. This is exactly what I needed to know!

Sleep well, eat in was that promote collagen, and the rest is going to just be genetics and age. Keeping your skin hydrated will help but there is a certain point where if you are healthy then that’s just how your beautiful face looks.

GOD Bless you all. GOD Loves you all. Have a blessed day everyone.

Thank you. Finally some intelligent and helpful information shared, definitely subscribing 😊

I’m turning 26 and have acne, blackheads, redness, under eye bags too! I was looking into getting eye creams, collagen and going make up free. Thank you for this info!

I took your advice and stopped buying my “Clinique all about eyes rich” and started using the ordinary caffeine serum.. and guess what! My eyes are worse now! Somehow the circles got darker..I don’t what was I thinking, each body is different and some products will have an effect on someone while it won’t do anything for others..