Here's what's actually been happening in that village for generations.
From the time a girl is young, every evening she does one small thing for her under-eyes. Her mother did it. Her grandmother did it.
They know what most people still don't: this one small area decides whether a face reads young and awake or tired and old. Get it right, and the rest of the face follows.
So they never reached for a cream. They used something the rest of us never had.
A plant that grows on the hillsides around their village and almost nowhere else, its sap thick with millions of micro-tightening minerals.
Smoothed under the eye, those minerals dried and connected with one another, forming a film that acted as a second skin — pulling the under-eye smooth.
The minerals also carried a sheer tint that adapted to the skin, neutralizing darkness.
All in under ninety seconds.
Bags pulled flat. Crepiness tightened. Dark circles, gone.