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  • Polynucleotides and Skin Boosters for the Under Eye: a Claim by Claim Evidence Ledger
  • Microneedling Under the Eyes: Evidence, Limits, and Who It Actually Helps
  • What is new in under-eye rejuvenation
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Dispatches

Dispatches

  • Chemical Peels Around the Eyes: What They Can Fade and What They Cannot
  • Can iron deficiency cause dark circles?
  • Allergies: the most overlooked cause of dark circles
  • Lasers and energy devices for under-eye pigment
  • Tear trough filler: what to know before you book
  • Do eye creams actually work?
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Explainer

Explainer

  • What Causes Bags Under Your Eyes: Fluid, Fat, or Fading Support
  • The Stretch Test: How to Tell If Your Dark Circles Are Pigment, Vessels, or Shadow
  • Pigmented, Vascular, or Structural: The Three Kinds of Dark Circles and Why the Distinction Decides Everything
  • When Tear Trough Filler Goes Wrong: Puffiness, the Blue Tint, and How It Gets Fixed
  • Dark Circles in Deeper Skin Tones: What Actually Lightens Under-Eye Pigment
  • Rapid Weight Loss and Dark Circles: Why Losing Fat Can Deepen Under-Eye Hollows
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Field Notes

Field Notes

  • Photographing your own under-eyes: a three shot protocol that does not lie to you
  • Cold Spoons, Tea Bags, Cucumber: What Home Remedies Actually Do
  • Does Screen Time Cause Dark Circles? Separating Myth From Mechanism
  • A realistic daily routine for dark circles
  • Are dark circles just genetic?
  • Makeup vs. treatment: a realistic comparison
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Suniti Raghunathan

Health Reporter · Editorial staff

Suniti Raghunathan

Covers consultations, aftercare, and the practical side of under-eye dark circles for first-time patients.

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A clinician in a treatment room drawing a clear solution from a small glass vial into a fine gauge syringe on a sterile tray, with a reclined patient softly out of focus behind.

Advances · 6 min · Suniti Raghunathan

Polynucleotides and Skin Boosters for the Under Eye: a Claim by Claim Evidence Ledger

Four separate promises are being made for injectable polynucleotides around the eye, and they are supported by four very different tiers of evidence. Sorting them is the only way to know which one you are actually buying.

July 26, 2026

A clinician guiding a microneedling pen near a patient's under-eye in a bright clinic

Advances · 6 min · Suniti Raghunathan

Microneedling Under the Eyes: Evidence, Limits, and Who It Actually Helps

Microneedling has quietly become one of the most requested under-eye treatments. The evidence supports it for one circle type in particular. Here is how it works, what studies show, and where it stops.

July 8, 2026

A gentle skin-booster treatment performed around a patient's under-eye

Advances · 7 min · Suniti Raghunathan

What is new in under-eye rejuvenation

Biostimulatory treatments and combination protocols are changing the under-eye game.

May 3, 2026

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