Read thisisvalmonroe’s full HowNotToFckUpYourFace column on resisting the beauty industry’s marketing and what to do about reddened lower lash lines
. I hope you’re buying it.The lower lids of my eyes have begun to look slightly red for the last couple of years. I just turned 65, and nothing I do seems to relieve the issue. I always notice it in photographs, and it just makes me look very tired.
My internist suggested allergies, but no meds have made the redness go away. The ophthalmologist sees nothing amiss and prescribed drops for dry eye, but still no effect. I’ve noticed this in older folks for years. Is it just part of aging?what you mean, and I’ve noticed it, too, on a few other mature people I know.
Then he suggested that the lower lashes might be irritating the eyes; this can happen as we age. Sometimes older people’s lower lids can begin turning inward toward the eye, which causes the lid and lashes to rub against the eyeball.The likeliest cause of your issue, said Matarasso, is that, again, as we age, sometimes the lower lid gets weaker, droops slightly, and no longer meets the iris of the eyeball.
Surgeons gonna surgeon, so Matarasso advises that if the condition is troublesome, a doctor can put a tiny stitch in the outer corner of the eye that will increase the tension in the lower lid, pulling it up slightly. That may be a fine solution if the issue is really bothering you. But — not to get all Pollyanna — you could also practice yourValerie Monroe was beauty director atwhere she wrote the monthly “Ask Val” column for nearly 16 years.
. Her goal continues to be to shift our thinking in the beauty arena from self-criticism to self-compassion and to learn how to be loving witnesses to ourselves and one another as we age.
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