"The skin under my eyes has been two shades darker than the rest of my face since my twenties. My father had it, my brother has it, so I figured that was just my face. What made it worse is that it reads as tired or fed up to other people. I've had men at work ask if everything was alright at home when everything was fine.I'd been through vitamin C serums and two brightening creams that did nothing, and now I understand why.

They sit on the surface and the colour isn't on the surface. About five weeks in the dark band has lifted enough that there's no hard line anymore where it meets my cheek. It hasn't vanished and I'm not going to pretend it has, but it blends now instead of announcing itself."

"I'd wake up with both eyes swollen no matter what time I got to bed. Salt made it worse, flying made it much worse, and by the time I got to the office it had settled into two soft pouches that made my whole face look heavier than I am. I'd been icing them with a spoon like my mother used to, which tells you how far I'd got.Three weeks of using these twice a week and the morning swelling is simply not there.

That's the part I keep telling people about, because it's the first thing I see in the mirror. I'll also say I was nervous about anything with needles in the name near my eyes, and there's been nothing. A slight tingle the first night and that was it."

"Mine wasn't puffiness, it was the opposite. The area under my eyes had sunk in and gone shadowed, so in overhead light or on camera I looked unwell. I tried concealer once on my wife's advice and it settled into the crease and looked worse than doing nothing at all.

It's taken about a month but the hollow has filled out and the shadow it was throwing has gone with it. My face doesn't look drawn in photographs anymore, which was the whole reason I ordered. I'm on video calls most days and I've stopped angling the laptop to avoid the overhead light."

"Somewhere past fifty the skin under my eyes went thin and crinkly. It had lost its hold, so it moved when I smiled and stayed creased for a second afterwards. That bothered me more than any of the colour ever did, and nothing I put on it made the slightest difference.

I have skin that reacts to almost everything so I nearly didn't order these. No stinging, no bumps, nothing at all, and I've been on them six weeks now. The texture has smoothed right out and the whole area sits firmer than it has in years. It's still improving as far as I can tell, so I've kept going."