It happens that a woman cries, which is why her tear-stained eyes then become swollen and red, and her face looks unattractive. If this happened in the evening, then by the morning the consequences will disappear on their own, rarely when swelling remains, and the look betrays recent crying. But if you had to cry during the day, then women hide the marks, returning their face to a normal appearance. Foundations will not help here; traditional methods are required.
The effect of tears
When crying, the lacrimal glands secrete tears, a salty liquid. Tears wet the front of the eye and accumulate in the recess of the inner corner - the “lake of tears.” The superior and inferior lacrimal canaliculi then direct the flow of tears to the lacrimal sac, and from there into the nasolacrimal ducts. With a sharp increase in the production of tears, the excess does not have time to escape through the ducts and irrigates the face.
Excess salt in tears causes stagnation of fluids in tissue cells and water retention in the body. This occurs under the influence of salts on the walls of the capillaries, which causes injury to the surrounding tissue - hence swelling and mild inflammation with redness.
The most important thing is within us
To begin, go to the mirror, stand straight and completely relax. Relaxation is very important. Release your facial muscles. Then start grimacing, depicting certain emotions: sadness, joy, anger, bewilderment. Don't force yourself at first, play what you want. Don't rush, do it calmly, somewhat slowly.
Don’t try to immediately portray vivid emotions; beginners often make this mistake. Direct your attention inward. Stanislavsky said that the main thing happens inside.
Having depicted one emotion, feel how your facial muscles work in it. Feel what your body wants to do. If you take the time to do this, you will quickly notice that even in such a feigned emotion, in anger your teeth and fists clench on their own, in sadness your head and shoulders drop, in joy there is lightness in your chest.
Washing away the effects of tears
After the crying is over, you should wash your face using cold water, gradually moving on to a contrast wash. Wash in 3 approaches after 10 minutes, without touching the soap. This will cool and invigorate, and improve blood circulation, soothing teary eyes and removing redness.
If there is no place to wash your face, carefully apply a handkerchief or napkin soaked in cold water to your eyes for 10 seconds at a time. After 5-7 minutes. the procedure is repeated.
Auxiliary techniques
Let's talk about other ways to learn to cry on purpose at any time, namely, how to properly use certain products and medications for these purposes.
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The classic situation with onions is familiar to everyone: when cutting this vegetable, tears flow from the eyes by themselves. Onion cells contain a special substance that can irritate the mucous membrane of the eye and cause a natural protective reaction in the form of tears.
Refreshing menthol
Products containing menthol can also help in this matter. You need to apply a little of this ointment or drops to the bridge of the nose or the area near the eyes. Menthol fumes will quickly provoke tears. But under no circumstances apply products to the eyelids or mucous membranes of the eyes!
Drying out
There is another way to safely induce tears. To do this, you need to dry out the mucous membrane of the eye. Everything is simple here: you need to open your eyes as wide as possible and try not to blink. You will quickly feel the mucous membrane of your eyes begin to dry out. After this, you need to blink several times in a row, this will trigger the hydration mechanism, and the lacrimal glands will fill your eyes with tears.
Help from massage and gymnastics for teary eyes
Massage techniques:
- Using your fingertips, gently stroke around the eyes in one direction and the other, starting from the inner corners.
- Moving in the same way, tap with your middle finger.
- With your eyes closed, gently massage the inner corners of your eyes and between your eyebrows with your fingers. This will help remove residual tear fluid and reduce pressure in the sinuses, but do not rub your eyes.
- Lightly tapping the eyelids of closed eyes will improve the movement of fluids, relieving puffiness.
Massaging with cold fingers helps, for this they are moistened with ice water or ice cubes. Ice made from frozen herbs (melissa, mint) or sparkling water is useful.
The techniques are performed for 10-15 seconds. with repetition after a pause.
Gymnastics exercises for the eyes:
- Rotate the eyes in a circle to the left - down, 4 times with pauses.
- The same, but start to the right and top, the same 4 times.
- Continuous blinking for 15 seconds.
- Alternating between closing your eyes for 8 seconds and opening your eyes.
Exercise will help improve blood circulation and relieve swelling.
Development is the path to the artist’s skill
Now we need to make the state more manageable. To do this, let's start from the outside. Look at the facial expressions of a crying person. Find the right moment in the movie and watch it carefully several times. Now play: reproduce the facial expressions of someone crying, sob.
Remembering your own crying will help you force yourself to be natural. Connect them together, external facial expressions and breathing when crying with personal internal experience. Do not be distructed.
In the future, to trigger the necessary emotions, it is better to take not your personal experience, but, for example, a scene from a film in which you want to cry. This will help you learn to simultaneously experience the role and observe it in order to make adjustments. However, there are no strict recommendations here, as in any creative process.
This skill cannot be learned quickly. If you know that in the future you will need tears on order,” work on yourself over a period of time.
At first, remember which episodes in your life were the saddest. Immerse yourself in this moment. At first, not even full-blown tears, but moist eyes will suffice. If you perform this performance every day, over time you will be able to bring tears to tears just by remembering an event.
Memories of sad events that touch the soul are not the best way to cause tears.
Psychologists say that a person may even develop depression because of this. Therefore, soberly assess what is more important to you - momentary wet eyes or long-term stress with unpredictable consequences.
A sad memory can be not only of an incident in your life, but also of a scene in your favorite movie. Train regularly - and after a while you will be able to shed a tear, in a couple of seconds “penetrating” the image of your favorite movie character.
Lotions for teary eyes
Place ice in cold water. Moisten a soft napkin or towel and apply it to one closed eye, then to the other. Perform the procedure for 5 minutes, regularly cooling the napkin. Swelling and redness are reduced.
Wrap the ice in a thin, soft cotton cloth. Wait for the ice to melt slightly, and place it on one closed eye for 5-6 seconds, then on the other. Repeat 3 times. This will help narrow the blood vessels and reduce inflammation.
Chamomile. 3 tbsp. l. Tie the herbs and flowers into a knot in a thin napkin and leave for 10 minutes. into a mug with boiling water. Then take it out, squeeze it out and apply it to your eyes. During the day, gently wipe with cotton swabs soaked in this infusion.
Birch leaves. Pour 1 glass of clean cool water and add 2-3 tbsp. l. raw materials. Leave for 9-10 hours. Wet the tampons and apply to the eyes throughout the day.
Take 1 part dill and 2 parts chilled sour cream. Mix and apply to tear-stained eyes, leaving for 15 minutes.
Take 2 tablespoons of chamomile, thyme, sage and birch buds and pour boiling water, leave for 5 hours. Soak cotton pads in the strained infusion for lotions, which are kept for 15-20 minutes.
Compresses and masks
Compresses for tear-stained eyes are more effective than lotions, but they will take more time.
Baked mashed potatoes, if applied warm, will dilate blood vessels, relieve accumulated liquid, reducing swelling.
Cool 2-6 spoons for 15 minutes. in the refrigerator and press lightly onto your eyes. Keep until the metal warms up. If necessary, replace with other chilled spoons.
Chilled milk eliminates dark circles. Cotton pads are soaked in cold milk and applied to closed eyes, changing to others as they warm up. Perform the procedure for 10 minutes.
Milk can be replaced with chilled sparkling drinking water.
Soak green tea bags in cold water and add ice. When the cubes melt, use the soaked lotions.
Keep a compress of strongly brewed black tea for 10 minutes. Relieves redness and removes circles.
Large-leaf green tea is brewed, filtered, and the leaves are wrapped in cloth and applied to the eyes, leaving for 10 minutes. Afterwards they wash themselves using tea leaves.
Beat the egg whites into a foam and apply to closed eyes. Wash after the foam has dried.
Make a puree from washed parsley, put it in gauze bags and make a compress. Remove after heating. To enhance the result, add cold sour cream to the parsley.
Apply for 5 minutes. thin slices of fresh cucumber or raw potatoes to swollen eyes. Replace plastics with fresh ones 3 times.
Peel 2-3 cucumbers, remove seeds and grind into puree. Add lemon juice. Fill gauze bags with the mixture and apply to the swelling three times for 15 minutes.
Mix apple and cucumber into puree; they will reduce swelling and help moisturize the skin.
Peel and grate raw potatoes. Also fill gauze bags and apply to swollen, tear-stained eyes. Lie down, relax, remove after 10 minutes. Use cold water for washing.
Rosemary essential oil relieves inflammation. Add 1 drop to olive oil (1 tsp). The caffeic acid in rosemary will relieve inflammation. After 1 min. blot with paper napkins or cotton pads.
Cucumbers on the eyes or patches moisturize the face and eyelids
A cucumber eye mask is effective for puffy eyes, and this has been proven by research. This vegetable mainly consists of water, so cold circles of cucumber on the face have the same effect as patches. They’re just not as convenient, they contain less liquid and no additional components.
You can go crazy and make ice cubes with cucumber extract yourself, but you need to spend a little time and wait until the anti-edema mixture from the vegetable freezes.
In this video, the girl shows how to make a mixture from cucumbers and pour it into an ice tray to remove bags under the eyes.
Paula Begun, creator of her own cosmetics brand and skincare expert, believes eye patches are an effective tool in the fight against puffy eyelids. If you have bags under your eyes even when you're not crying, patches can help reduce them.
- Organic Kitchen mask “Cucumber slices”, 113 rubles - an alternative to sliced cucumber in the form of a moisturizing jelly for the skin around the eyes. In addition to cucumber extract, the composition contains fruit acids and panthenol for additional moisturizing and combating skin irritation. In 8-10 minutes on the face, the mask will remove flaking and dryness and moisturize the skin around swollen eyes.
- Hydrogel eye patches Petitfee Gold Hydrogel Eye Patch, 1,288 rubles - hydrogel patches fit tightly to the skin around the eyes and nourish it with water and hyaluronic acid. They are also gold and sparkle beautifully.
Pharmacy products
Creams and ointments:
- decongestant, Caffeine cream relieve swelling;
- vitamin E capsules also remove swelling and smooth out wrinkles;
- a compress mask containing retinol;
Eye drops:
The redness will go away if you drop 1-2 drops of the drug into the eye. The drops will also prevent the development of conjunctivitis. No prescription required.
Visine eliminates redness, and Blepharogel relieves swelling.
Cosmetics for teary eyes
Yeast serum is applied for 10 minutes, it will cope with redness.
Tea bags can be replaced with ready-made patches with aloe or green tea, which act as drainage.
The cooled moisturizer is rubbed along the massage lines. After half an hour, reapply the cream.
Only yellow or green will hide redness. To do this, use a concealer or corrector of the same color, and then mask the traces of tears with a foundation. You should choose a bright lipstick color.
