Start with what your eyes are doing

Most dry eye is evaporative — the oil glands in your lids have stopped releasing properly, so your tears evaporate before they can do their job. Drops soothe the symptom; light and heat treat the cause.

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At home A month of the CORE 4 — warm compress, preservative-free drops, lid hygiene wipes and Omega-3 — is included in the full treatment plan. We also carry the Umay Rest thermal eye device in clinic.

A blocked gland that has become swollen or infected. As a rule of thumb we reach for IPL with styes and RF with chalazia, though it is not a hard line and plenty of cases need both.

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Blepharitis — inflammation along the lid margin, often with debris at the lash line. Uncomfortable, and a common reason eye makeup stops sitting well.

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Excess skin on the upper lid that softens your eye shape, and in some cases starts to sit in your field of view. Plexr Plus tightens the skin; Morpheus8 works on what sits beneath it. Sometimes both are needed, in that order.

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The skin around the eye is the thinnest on the body, which is why it creases first. It is also the area we are most careful with.

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At home A retinol built for the eye area, introduced slowly.