Bleaching undereye circles

Hi everyone I'm new to the forums.

Ever since middle school around the 7th grade I have had a little problem with dark circles, but they started worsening after I started High School. Now at the age of 25 and after 2 kids they are even darker! Before I didn't mind them and learned to embrace them, but my significant other started pointing them out when we first me, I still didn't care much, but now I'm finally starting to and wanting to get back my "childhood days" skin before I started the 7th grade, which is around the time I started menstruating by the way. I'm not sure if it's a lack of iron, since I always suffered from anemia, but I want to do something. I started taking iron supplements, but don't see much of a difference and I also have sleeping problems, but I'm starting to tackle that by taking Melatonin and it's starting to help immensely. 

4 days ago I started bleaching the skin under my eyes. I have read on this dark circles website that 3-4% Hydroquinone which is what my cream has will help lighten them. I know a lot of people say it's bad and it's not recommended, but I'm actually looking for people who have tried it and had results. Also, if you can post some before and after photos that would be awesome. Thank you

Hi all, thanks for the replies. I will consider all your suggestions if all else fails. I have noticed some of my undereye skin lightening faster than other parts! And I definitely see some difference in color changing. What scares me is that a little patch (inner eye part) are getting lighter faster than the outer parts of the circles, weird? but it's working! I started applying with a q-tip as to avoid "coloring outside the lines", so when it becomes more noticeable I will definitely avoid the lighter patches.

Tiffany, I bet not anything like mine. I might post pictures of them soon, plus I'm tanned. I look Indian, but I'm Latina..that's how bad my circles are.

Hey! Thanks for the new suggestions and posts, I will definitely keep these in mind and I'm so glad there are many of you here to help :).

Well, it's been 2 weeks since I started bleaching the circles and I used a toner twice in 2 weeks or 1 week and a half (not too sure). Today when looking in the mirror I noticed that almost "half" of the circles (starting from the outside of my right eye) is missing. I was shocked..I showed my significant other to see if he noticed the same thing I did or if I was just seeing things and he also sees it.

I am shocked and in disbelief. Will keep you guys updated.

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Originally Posted by fawnie 


Agree. I would use niacin/B3 + chrysin + vitamin K *at least* to fade pigment/undereye circles.

I take Niacin (I stopped though because the latest brand I bought makes me flush too much and it's too painful and intense). I also take vitamin K..do you mean apply the creams? Because I take these vitamins and b3 as well I just don't take Chrysin.

Well, my circles are definitely lighter but my right eye is lighter than the left ,lol. I stopped applying bleach on the lighter areas of my right eye for now and a little more on my left eye so it could even out hopefully it will even out soon because it looks kind of funny one eye is lighter than the other hehe. I also don't go out much anyway only like once a week I work from home so it's ok. When I go out in the summer I will definitely wear shades to protect the skin. Will this be permanent or will they get dark again if I stop using the cream? 

I hate the cream because I can taste it in my mouth sometimes I don't know how or why since I always make sure to wash my hands after I apply the cream I also wash around my mouth area and still I taste the awful cream in my mouth yuck

Thanks for the tips! They are getting extremely light, but my right eye is getting lighter faster than the left, yikes! I do want to do it 'naturally', but wasn't sure if that would work with my circles since they are so deep and dark. I will try the lemon and vitamins (which I take, a bunch of them actually, lol).

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Originally Posted by BrightFuture123 

Hey ZombieChick, I personally wouldn't want to use the bleach/cream at all. It's extremely strong 

and can cause skin damage if you aren't careful with it. I've always been big on natural skin treatments.

Make it at home kind of things.

 

Other people already posted some ideas, but I'll give you my own:

In addition to taking vitamin K and vitamin A (you can find supplements/fruits)

Try getting some lemon, juicing it in your cleanser, and then gently rubbing

it over your dark patches. Be careful to avoid your eyes, of course, it will sting if you 

get any of the mixture in. Try it for a few weeks and see if it works for you.

 

Hope that helps!

Here is a small update.

I don't know if you can tell by the photo but my right eye is still lighter than the left eye. I was applying bleach under the right eye but now I stopped completely and I'm just going to keep applying to the left side until it catches up with the right. I don't know if you can tell much let me know if you can see what I'm talking about.

Left being your right and I just put Nadinola before I snapped this picture that's why my circles look greasy.

Nevermind