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Elite Longevity

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Skincare Agency Paris

Eye area

Dark circles, bags, drooping eyelids, crow’s feet. We treat every concern of the eye contour.

The eyes are the first area anyone sees. And often the first to give away tiredness, age, or difficult genetics. Skin five times thinner than the rest of the face, the most used muscles in the body, volumes that melt away over the years. The eye contour deserves medical attention in its own right.

Our approach

A separate area, a bespoke approach.

The eye contour accumulates several ageing mechanisms at once: volume loss, skin laxity, altered microcirculation, weakened skin. Treating the eye area means knowing how to read each sign and choosing the right technique for each layer.

  1. 01

    Assess

    VISIA maps the periocular area and reveals what the naked eye cannot yet see. Every consultation starts there. No protocol without analysis.

  2. 02

    Combine techniques

    Dark circles, bags, eyelids and crow’s feet have different mechanisms. An effective eye area protocol often brings together several approaches: filling, firming, skin renewal. The medical team builds the combination suited to each profile.

  3. 03

    Set it in the long term

    The eye area is treated and maintained. Regular follow-up keeps the results going and slows the progression of the signs. The treatment plan is designed for the long term, not session by session.

Portrait of Vanessa Marrapodi, founder of Skincare Agency Paris.
The eyes reveal everything. It is the most read area of a face and the most complex to treat. At Skincare Agency, we approach it with surgical precision, without ever touching a scalpel.

Vanessa MarrapodiFounder of Skincare Agency Paris

Dark circles

Hollow circles or coloured circles

Hollow, coloured or mixed, dark circles do not all have the same origin. Hollow circles result from the melting of fatty tissue under the orbit: the skin thins, the bony rim becomes visible, a permanent shadow settles in. Coloured circles give away vessels showing through skin that is too thin, or localised hyperpigmentation. Two distinct mechanisms. Two families of treatment.

Close-up of the under-eye and the tear trough.

The tear trough, often overlooked

Between the dark circle and the cheekbone, a hollow is invisible until the day it is not. The tear trough amplifies the shadow under the eye and gives that hollow, aged look that persists even after a good night’s sleep. It is often the first area to treat in order to recover a rested eye area.

Dark circles affect every morphology and every age. Some are genetic and present from childhood. Others settle in gradually as facial volumes melt away. In every case, the medical consultation identifies the exact mechanism and points to the suitable treatment.

Dark circles

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The eyes change everything

A rested eye area does not read as a sign of treatment. It reads as vitality. Recover the natural freshness of your eye contour with a protocol designed for you, in our institute in the 8th arrondissement.

Eyelids

Drooping eyelids, a heavy gaze

When the eyelid closes the gaze

With age, the skin of the upper eyelid loses elasticity. It slides over the eye, weighs the gaze down, reduces the palpebral space. The effect is gradual: you do not see it coming, but the mirror ends up showing it. Eyes that close give a tired, sometimes severe look that no longer matches how you feel.

Close-up of a slackened upper eyelid.

What aesthetic medicine can correct without surgery

Medical blepharoplasty treats moderate laxity of the upper eyelids without surgery or social downtime. Through fractional radiofrequency and plasma exeresis, the skin is retracted, the folds softened, the gaze reopened. For more marked cases, other techniques complete the work: botulinum toxin to reposition the brow, tensor threads to raise the outer corner of the eye if needed.

Mild to moderate ptosis responds very well to medical protocols. The consultation determines the degree of laxity and the best suited techniques. In some cases of significant excess skin, the medical team may point towards complementary care.

Eyelids

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Eye contour

Crow’s feet and fine lines

More than 15,000 blinks a day. Constant contractions when smiling, squinting, facing the light. The skin of the eye contour is five times thinner than the rest of the face and has no sebaceous glands to protect it. It ages fast, very fast.

Corner of the eye marked by crow’s feet.

Expression lines are not all treated in the same way

Crow’s feet respond very well to botulinum toxin. The superficial fine lines of the lower eyelid call for another approach: microneedling, skinbooster, cosmetic routine. The distinction is medical before it is aesthetic. A good assessment avoids treatment errors on such a delicate area.

The eye contour is often treated at the same time as the dark circles or the eyelids. A complete eye area protocol takes all three dimensions into account: volume, structure, surface. The medical team reviews the whole before proposing the treatment plan.

Eye contour

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A hollow circle is an anatomical depression: the fat under the orbit has melted away and the bony rim casts a shadow. It is treated by filling (hyaluronic acid, PRP). A coloured circle is a matter of hue: vessels visible through skin that is too thin (blue-purple), or hyperpigmentation (brown). It calls for techniques that thicken the skin or soften the pigmentation. The two types often coexist.