If you’re reading this in Britain, the answer has always been no.
And I’m not guessing. I watched Sarah try all of it, for years.
Eye creams? Her bathroom cabinet had six jars. Some cost £60. They’re all moisturisers. Lovely for dry skin. But an eye bag isn’t dryness — the skin has given way — and you cannot moisturise skin back into shape. Six jars, years of use. Her eye bags never moved an inch.
Retinoids? She gave them months. Burning, peeling — on the thinnest, most sensitive skin on her face. At the end of it, her eye bags were still there. Just redder.
Concealer? She wore it every day for twenty years. And the truth is you cannot cover an eye bag. An eye bag is a shape, not a colour. Concealer changes the colour. The shape stays. By lunchtime it’s creased into the lines and made everything look worse.
And the worst thing? The beauty industry knows all of this.
Creams that don’t touch the bag, retinoids that burn and change nothing. Concealer that can’t hide it.
It’s generated billions of dollars.
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 not one product on your shelves was ever built to actually fix an eye bag. It’s exactly the way they wanted it.