Undereye cocktail: Part 1

Picture #1: July 16, 2007. No makeup whatsoever (as if I needed to tell you)

I must be a masochist. Why else would I be willing to share close up shots of my most loathed facial feature, with out the usual shovel full of concealer, in such a public way. It is, however, in the interest of science and cosmetic adventure, and so seems worth it.

I've been using a new cocktail on my eye area for a few days now, and since it's so hard to be objective in an analysis of success, I am documenting the progress through a series of photos to see how effective it is. I'm sharing them on this site so that those of you who also suffer from under eye circles (and a general all around eye purpliness) can benefit from my experiment. And others can just use this as an opportunity to point and laugh at my raccoon face.

By "cocktail" I mean that I have been applying Vita-K Solution for Dark Circles in the morning and at night, and following it up with Aloette's Eye Recovery Complex. The former is (duh) a Vitamin K serum (which the lovely Brigita at Simisoskin.com explained is one thing that will truly help get rid of under eye circles in that Vitamin K breaks up the coagulation of blood, which is what those dark patches are. Gross). The latter is a lovely eye cream that also contains Vitamin K, but has lots of other lovely things in it to make your eye area pretty and moisten it up. Very necessary, as the Vita-K alone is pretty drying and uncomfortable.

So I've been doing this for a few days now, and I think I have already started to notice a difference. The Vita-K reviews were very mixed, but those who liked it claimed to see the same quick beginnings of effect. Maybe the difference has nothing to do with the cocktail, but rather just a good night sleep and flattering light. It's difficult to tell, but I'm pretty sure the dastardly dark patches look better.

*For the record, and to show the progress so far, here's the only other picture I have that clearly depicts my circles with no makeup to cover them up. This was taken a few weeks ago, and has only survived because Bartleby was so cute and snuggly, who could throw that away? I'm the one without the fur. (Also, I don't know why Bartleby looks like he's missing an eye--he really does have two of 'em)