Under eyes dark circles - the four types guide

You have probably tried the eye cream. Maybe several. The cold spoons, the tea bags, the colour-correcting concealer, a week of proper sleep to prove something to yourself. And the circles are still there.

Here is what almost nobody tells you: dark circles are not one condition. They are three completely different things that happen to look similar from a distance — and each one sits in a different layer of your face and responds to a completely different approach.

Which means every product that failed you was probably a perfectly good product. It was just built for a problem you do not have.

Inside this guide:

• Three simple tests that identify your type in about sixty seconds
• What congestion, pigment and shadow circles actually are, and how to tell them apart
• What genuinely helps each type — and what will never work, however long you persist
• An honest table of what face yoga can and cannot change, with realistic timelines

Written by a face yoga instructor, with no product to sell you and no promises I cannot keep. If your type turns out to be one that training will not shift, this guide will tell you that too.