For fifteen years, I’d been trying.
And I’m not guessing. I tried all of it, on my own eyebags.
Eye creams? I bought the forty-dollar jars and the hundred-dollar jars. They’re all moisturizers. Lovely for dry skin. But an eyebag isn’t dryness, and you can’t moisturize one away.
Retinoids? I gave them months. Burning, peeling, on the thinnest, most sensitive skin on my face. At the end of it, my eyebags were still there. Just redder.
Concealer? That’s the one Soo-yun took out of my hand. And the truth is you cannot cover an eyebag. An eyebag is a shape, not a color. Concealer changes the color. The shape stays. By lunchtime it’s creased into the lines and made everything look worse.
“In Korea,” she said, “we learned this a long time ago. A cream can’t reach it. A concealer can’t hide it.”
And the worst thing? The beauty industry knows all of this.
Creams that don't touch the eyebag, retinoids that burn and change nothing. Concealer that can't hide it.
It's generated billions of dollars for the beauty industry.
Because every product that doesn't work just sends you looking for another one. And another.
The second you find something that actually works, they stop making money.
That's why, in that whole aisle, not one product was built to actually fix an eyebag. It's exactly the way they wanted it.