Why I Quit Under-Eye Filler (And What I Do at 49 Instead)
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Why I Quit Under-Eye Filler (And What I Do at 49 Instead)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202621 min

Under-eye filler was the wrong fix for almost everything I was actually trying to fix, and I found that out after years and a stupid amount of money spent on my own face. What most people call under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, hollowing, darkness, crepey skin, fine lines, and true bags, and filler is only built for one of them. This is exactly what I do instead now, and how to figure out which under-eye problem is actually yours before you spend a dollar. Things I Mentioned: Rewritten Show The Face Up serum<...

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If your under eyes make you look tired, no matter how much you slept and you're this close to booking filler to fix it, I'm going to ask you to stop for just a second. See, your under eyes aren't just one problem. They're actually five.

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And filler is really designed to solve only one of them. And if you put it in the wrong one, it can actually make you look worse, sometimes years later. I know because I have spent years and a stupid amount of money testing every fix there

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is on my own face. And listen, I got the filler, I did, I loved it, and I'm never doing it again. So let me show you the five problems, how to actually tell which one is yours, and exactly what I do now, instead.

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