How I "Fixed" My Droopy Hooded Eyelids

[Music] hey everybody it's Angie and welcome to hot and flashy in today's video I was going to talk a little bit about my eyelids and um how I have gotten them to improve or look improved over the course of the four years that I've been out here on YouTube if you watched any of my earlier videos you will have seen me with more sagging more wrinkled more hooded eyelids that really really bothered me and if you watch any of my videos now you will see that my eyelids are a bit less sagging a bit less wrinkly the skin is a bit firmer probably starting about 2 years ago I started receiving comments asking me what I did to my eyelids specifically did I have surgery on them and I actually put out a video a few years ago trying to explain that I didn't have eyelid surgery um but that it it was really just a combination of my skincare routine that was starting to work and some makeup techniques and possibly a little bit of Botox that was helping my eyelids well now it's another two years beyond that and I've noticed that especially lately over the last couple of months those questions have been snowballing in again so I feel like when people start asking over and over the same question and I see it like five times a week 10 times a week then it's time to address the issue in a video because while I'm not hiding anything from you and everything I have done has been out there for you to watch in a video I can't direct you to all 415 of my videos and say oh just watch all those and then you'll know what I've done you don't have the time for that what I'm saying is that everything I've done is out there for you to see I haven't done anything in secret behind your back you know if I have a procedure done I make a video about it and you guys know about it and then you get an update two weeks 3 months 6 months and I tell you if I think it worked or not if I even switch up anything in my skin care I tell you guys about it I'm going to condense it all down into this video all the things that I think have contributed to my eyelids looking better and you know that's that's all I can do because I don't know for sure if there was if there was one thing that I put on and it was like instantly within a week or 10 days they were suddenly better I would say yes it was that one thing but it hasn't been like that if you look from the old videos to the Now videos you can see a very very very slow slow progression painfully slow four years worth of slow but you know four years they do look better and I will say again that a lot of it is makeup but I took some pictures of my eyelids this morning when I first woke up to show you them with no makeup on them and you can see that you know they're improved but they're not improved to the point of it being like a surgical result some people have written it in the past and said that they could see the surgery scar on my eyelid and so they knew I was lying the point of this video is not to prove that I haven't done it but I just wanted to show you my eyelid so up close and personal that you could see that there is not a scar there and you can see when my eyes don't have makeup on them that while they look better than they did in a very very first year of videos they're not like so fantastic makeup really is a big part of it so the number one thing that I think has helped my eyelids to improve is using retina and as I always tell you guys I don't put it on my eyelids you're not supposed to use it on your eyelids and I don't I just put it around you know leaving a hole for my eye I put it everywhere else but I feel like it is firmed and toned up the rest of my skin it helps to produce more collagen but the thing is the way I put it on so when I put on my retina I don't wait afterwards to then put on my next moisturizer or serum I just slap them on one right after the other and even though I don't put the retina directly on my eyelid I do put my next serum on my eyelid so I start it down here where my retina is and I smear it up onto my eyelids and I think that I'm getting a little bit of a shmear of the retina up onto my eyelids not enough that it's going to cause irritation but enough that it has helped to rebuild some of the collagen in that area that's made the skin firmer and plumper than they were four years ago when I started when it was really quite saggy and quite wrinkly okay now so that's the number one thing the number two thing that I think is definitely the eyeshadow when you guys see me on YouTube you see me from this camera angle I always have the good eyeshadow done I don't have it done like that every day and depending on how I wear my eyeshadow it can make a huge difference in how my eyelids appear the shadow makes the hood recede and then the light color makes the eyelid look bigger and more prominent and if you want to know how to do that I've done plenty of eyeshadow to tutorials showing exactly where to place the eyeshadow exactly what colors to use exactly what brushes to use and I'll link a whole bunch of those in the information box below the video number three is that I started sleeping on my back I mainly started sleeping on my back to get rid of some chest wrinkles that were forming because you know sleeping on your side you wake up and it's like a big why of wrinkles I was also having a vertical wrinkle down my cheek and um I had read that simply sleeping on your back eliminate those wrinkles so I started sleeping on my back well little did I know I was going to have a third benefit to it which is that I feel like it is really helped my hooded eyes because again sleeping with your face mashed into a pillow it mashes that hood down and it was creating more wrinkles on my eyelids while I was asleep at night and I think that that has made a huge difference I actually didn't realize that until I got an email from a viewer who said you know I haven't done anything else else that you've done except switch to sleeping on my back she said within a couple of months of starting to sleep on her back she noticed that her hoods were less saggy um you know just less flattened when she got up in the morning and less laying on her eyelashes and I was like oh my gosh you know ding light bulb went off I was like why didn't I think of that of course that has to be part of it the other thing is I sleep with my head elevated I have like a sleeping wedge and I'll link my sleeping wedge below it's the 10-in wedge that helps the fluids that collect in the eye area to drain out of my head during the night so I don't wake up with like really puffy eyes and stuff like that so that's another thing another thing that may have helped is that I do use eyelash growth serums and I had used Leti back when I right around the time that I did that video they discovered that people who were using Leti actually lost fat in their uh periorbital area and so people who had you know very hooded eyes their eyelids became became less hooded while they were on latis of course I didn't last more than I think 4 to 6 months on Lati but it could have had an effect while I was using it another big difference from the beginning is uh the quality of my skin care it's not that I'm spending more for my skin care I'm just using more proven ingredients that work for anti-aging so where maybe before my moisturizers only had nice moisturizing ingredients in them and maybe one um peptide now I'm using like three or four different peptides I'm using ceramides I'm using niacinamide I'm using hyaluronic acid I'm using Matel every single day twice a day I actually don't use a separate eye cream but I am getting all those proven anti-aging active ingredients in all my other skin care the skin is looking and acting younger because I added in all those different anti-aging actives into my skin care that really weren't in there before another thing that I think really had a big effect on my eyelids was that I had a fraxel dual laser treatment done back in January I had my entire face done and she did most of the concentration and most of the passes on my forehead and here on the sides of my cheeks where I had the most um discolorations and sun damage but she also did do a few passes just below my eyebrows on my eyelids she did a few passes under my eyes and I felt like looking at the before and after pictures from that procedure which I will uh put the links to those in the info box below as well so that you can go and take a look at that I feel like that really did have quite an effect on my eyelids and did lift them up quite a bit more all right so now I'm trying to think if I left anything out oh of course Botox in the previous video a lot of people were like well you get BOTOX you can get a lift from your Botox I really don't think that the Botox has that much to do with it I don't get it done in a way where they're trying to do a lift I don't get it done in a way a way where it actually lifts my forehead where I have my Botox put in is mainly here in my 11s because I have those scowl lines right there and I don't like those and then I have them spread a little bit up into the center of my forehead that does not cause any lifting of my eyebrows out here you can have a Botox done in a way that it will give you a lift and quite a drastic lift if you like that look I just don't like it on me so I don't get it so I think that Botox really has nothing to do with it I did say in the previous video that it might have something to do with it but wasn't really you know 100% on that so those are the things that I have changed in my skincare routine and the procedures that I've gotten over the last four years that I think have had a really big effect on my eyelids it's really not one thing that I can point to and say look it fixed my eyelids because it's really a whole basket full of things that I've done over the four years and it has been a journey it has been a progressive Improvement that you can see if if you look back at my videos so I don't want anything to ever be a secret here I don't want you to ever feel like you can't ask me what I'm doing I'm not offended if you ask me if I've had surgery Botox you know a laser whatever I'll tell you if I have or if I haven't and I'll always do a video on anything that I have done including skin care and procedures and a surgery if I do have one you know at some point in time so that is what I've done if you want to try to replicate these results I suggest that you do it all it's not an easy fix I know everyone wants everything to be one quick and easy thing that you could do that would do it in this case it's not it's been a lot of hard work but as you can see it pays off and it has been worth it so that is it for the video for today everybody I hope that all made sense to you and I hope that you'll click the show more button below to find all the links for all the related videos to this so thanks everybody for watching I really appreciate your time I hope you found the video helpful and informative and I will see you in the next video so take care everybody bye-bye

Channel: HotandFlashy

Views: 3,897,100

Keywords: Anti-aging, skincare, style, how to, hotandflashy, hot and flashy, over 50, over 40, 50 +, 40 +, 50 and, mature, skin, face, How to, fix, hooded eyelids, droopy eyes, sagging eyelids, eyelids, wrinkles, hooded eyes

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Length: 11min 11sec (671 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 08 2016