Eyes · Fact-check
How do you get rid of under-eye bags? First, work out which kind you have.
Most advice about under-eye bags treats them as one problem with one fix. They're usually two problems that look alike in a mirror, and the fix for one does very little for the other. Knowing which one you're looking at saves a lot of money on eye creams.
Puffiness and hollows are not the same thing
Puffiness is fluid. It's usually worse in the morning, changes from day to day, and often follows a short night, a salty dinner or a few drinks. It tends to ease as the day goes on.
Hollows and fat pads are structure. A shadowed groove under the eye, or a small bulge that looks the same every day regardless of sleep, comes mostly from anatomy and ageing. Sleep, water and creams don't change it much. This is general wellness information, not medical advice.
What actually moves puffiness
Consistent sleep matters more than one long lie-in: similar bed and wake times across the week. Sleeping with your head slightly raised can reduce overnight fluid pooling. Keeping salty food and alcohol earlier in the evening helps for the same reason.
A cold compress in the morning gives a short-term reduction. It's a quick fix for a day, not a routine that changes anything long term. None of this is a 10-step miracle routine, and it doesn't need to be.
A quick self-check, not a diagnosis
Look at the same spot in the same light for a week. If it's noticeably better after good nights and worse after bad ones, it's mostly puffiness and it will respond to habits.
If it looks the same every day no matter how you slept, it's more likely structural. That isn't something to fix with effort, and if it bothers you, a dermatologist is the right person to talk to, not an app and not a cream.
How we score the eye area instead of guessing
We don't give the eyes one vague number. Under-eye (dark circles and puffiness), brows and freshness are scored separately, and each is tagged for how much a 90-day protocol can realistically move it. See /methodology for how that scoring works.
See which of your eye-area scores can actually move
Take the free quiz, then unlock your scan (the price is shown before you upload) to see your under-eye, brows and freshness scores separately, with a 90-day plan built around the habits that will actually show up in a re-scan.
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