Fat-Elvis
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I'm 26 and the skin under my eyes makes me look like I'm 46. Four years ago I developed chronic dark circles and they've never gone away. I've tried various things but nothing's ever really helped. There have been a couple other things that have bothered me, such as a porous nose, oily nose/forehead, and lately I've developed expression lines around my eyes. Now, the dark circle areas are looking worse, with lots of tiny little expression wrinkles and really faint little whitish bumps. It looks worse under certain lightings than others, but it's far from perfect. Looks worse when I have a light below head level, probably because all the imperfections case little shadows. The past month or so I've been using different stuff on my face to try to combat some of this. This is my regimen: - Nivea extra gentle face wash once a day - Humphrey's oil-conrolling witch hazel toner once or twice a day - Avalon Organics Vitamin C lotion 15spf once every one or two days, kinda burns when it gets into my eyes - L'Oreal Men's Expert Stop Lines anti-lines moisturizer 15spf, on days I don't use the above moisturizer - a few times a week I put emu oil around my nose/eyes (done that for months now) - exfoliate once a week with some fancy oatmeal-based exfoliater I got from Whole Foods I can't really remember when my eyes started looking worse, with the little faint bumps and expression wrinkling, but I think that's gotten worse recently. Could using all of this stuff, so many chemicals etc, be making it worse? Could it be something that'll get worse for a little while before it gets better? I've read of both happening, but not necessarily with the products I'm using. And my face is still pretty oily. Anything else I can use? I used to pride myself on looking younger than I really am (even if that's not the best when you're in your early 20s), and now my eyes look way more aged than they should look at 26.