Dark circles are undoubtedly unsightly for beauty. Dark circles only show how tired you may be, but they can also appear without you being tired at all, so you don’t need to work for hours and hours for them to appear.
But you will be surprised to find out that your genes have a fundamental part of the dreaded dark circles appearing, but then what happens in your body to make them appear under your eyes? Or even around them.
Dark circles are the result of the thin layer of skin that you have under your eyes when they show the blood vessels and the blood they contain more clearly than in any other part of your body since this skin in this area is thinner than that of the rest of the body.
Causes of the appearance of dark circles, why do they appear on the face?
- As you may know, dark circles appear dark blue not because blood is blue, but because the skin tissue only allows blue-violet to show through it. Although it is true that the color of the dark circles will vary a lot depending on the skin tone you have , because if your skin is very fair (or albino), then it is likely that your dark circles do look more reddish like the color of blood. Below you will be able to know some of the causes of its dreaded appearance, do not lose detail!
- On the one hand, we have the environmental reasons. Sometimes dark circles appear due to reasons and reactions from the environment, such as allergies. They can also come to us from suffering from some type of atopic pigmentation on the skin.
- We can also suffer from them due to the type of pigmentation and thickness of the person’s skin, which worsens over the years, or also due to genetic or hereditary causes.
- If, in addition, we have eye problems such as diseases such as conjunctivitis, they may become more accentuated. The same happens if we habitually suffer from tiredness, stress and fatigue or we rub our eyes too much.
- On the other hand, they can also appear if we expose ourselves too much to the sun or if we have suddenly lost too much weight.