If you're looking for a way to add a little glow to your skin, eye creams are a great place to start. They're easy to use, and they can make a big difference in the appearance of your eye area. Here are some of the best luminous eye creams on the market today.
$202.00
I use this cream a.m & p.m, it’s especially great in the morning because it really brightens my under eyes and gives that luminous effect without any shimmer/glitter in the product and you only need to use the smallest amount for both eyes. ...I prefer eye creams that have a thicker consistency because the skin around my eyes always looks so dry. ...Eye Cream
What it is:
A refreshing and lightweight eye cream with purslane, a potent ingredient that targets signs of aging and the appearance of puffiness and dark circles.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Dark Circles, Fine Lines and Wrinkles, and Puffiness
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Complex of Yeast, Golden Root, and Sugar Beet: Reduce the look of dark shadows and bags under the eyes with a soothing effect.
- Vitamin E: An antioxidant that helps protect the skin against free radicals and environmental factors.
- Macadamia Oil: Intensely nurturing and moisturizing, helping the eye area retain moisture.
Size: Apricot .13 oz / 3.6 g·ITEM: 2648509
Color: Apricot
$47.50
Just use the eye cream...I love the banana bright eye cream but was a little underwhelmed by this. ...It has such an incredible formula that isn’t heavy at all around the eyes. It instantly brightens and makes my under eye brighter and more luminous.
What it is: A color-correcting eye-cream stick that diminishes the look of dark circles, visibly brightens, and hydrates.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dullness, and Dark Circles
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Two Forms of Enhanced Vitamin C (3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid and Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate): Help brighten and fade the look of dark circles.
- Banana Powder-Inspired Pigments: Light-reflecting mineral pigments that illuminate the look of your complexion.
- Caffeine: Nurtures and supports skin.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, crue
$73.00
Soothing eye cream!...It's very lightweight and doesn't have a fragrance to it. Many eye creams give me little dots under my eyes but not this one. ...I love this eye cream. This is the first eye cream that hasn’t given me breakouts.
What it is: A bouncy, lightweight cream powered by caffeine, niacinamide, and peptides to visibly brighten, depuff, and tighten your eye area.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dark Circles, and Puffiness
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Six Peptides: Visibly reduce fine lines and firms and tighten the look of skin, even on the lids.
- Niacinamide 2%: Is a potent antioxidant that visibly reduces dark circles and brightens the look of skin.
- Caffeine 0.5%: Visibly depuffs for a more refreshed, wide-awake look.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
$122.00
Holy Grail of Eye Creams...Love this eye cream! It does everything and doesn’t bother my sensitive eyes and skin....This ice cream is my under eyes hydrated and Dewey and very luminous.
What it is: An all-in-one, visibly age-defying eye cream for a visible lift in 60 seconds flat—formulated with harungana extract, which is as effective as retinol.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Loss of Firmness and Elasticity, and Dark Circles
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Harungana Extract: Is as effective as retinol while being gentle on skin.
- Cassie Flower Wax: Visibly tightens and smooths lines and wrinkles.
- Albizia Extract and Horse Chestnut-Derived Escin: Minimize the look of dark circles.
What Else You Need to Know: Formulated with 94 percent natural-origin ingredients, this eye cream contains a v
$48.00
Best Brightening Eye Cream!...Love this eye cream! Easy to apply, lightweight formula which blends easily into the skin. ...MY FIRST EVER I CREAM I LOVE!!...I didn’t think eye creams do anything. I can’t believe the difference as soon as I put this on my eyes are actually glowing.
What it is: An eye cream, made with hyperpigmentation-targeting actives like niacinamide, caffeine, and vitamin C, that calm and visibly firm.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Improves the look of uneven skin tone and support the skin barrier.
- Vitamin C: Visibly brightens uneven skin tone while supporting collagen production.
- Caffeine: Visibly firms skin and reduces the look of puffiness.
What Else You Need to Know: This formula works fast to visibly depuff and illuminate your under eyes after continued use. The active levels of niacinamide, vitamin C, and caffeine help reveal brighter-, more radiant-looking skin around the eyes.
Clinical Results: In a self-assessment of 32 users after 4 weeks:
- 94% agreed
$38.00
The eye cream itself is nourishing and always gives my undereyes a healthy, luminous glow....I wouldn't really say that it's brightening, but unless you get an eye cream with a tint, most eye creams aren't.
What it is: A clinically tested, 360° entire-eye gel-cream that hydrates, smooths the look of fine lines, and brightens the appearance of dark circles.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dryness, and Dark Circles
Formulation: Cream
$49.00
Best Eye Cream...First Aid Beauty Brighten + Glow Eye Cream with Niacinamide is my new favorite eye cream! ...Loving this eye cream!...Using this eye cream hydrates and moisturizes my under-eyes instantly..
What it is: This illuminating eye cream gives an instant glow and hydrates to gradually brighten and help reduce the appearance of dark circles over time.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dryness, and Dullness
Formulation: Lightweight Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide
- Pumpkin Seed Extract
- Caffeine
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.
ITEM: 2443703
Size: 0.5 oz/ 15 mL
$49.00
This gel-cream doesn’t irritate my eyes at all. It’s pretty cooling. ...I try every Fenty skin product as they come out and I am impressed with this eye cream. I usually use the olehenriksen banana bright eye cream and I tried this one and it does give a cooling effect and a little goes a long way as it’s easily spreadable.
What it is: Fake a flash nap and instantly wake up tired-looking eyes with this 2-in-1 eye cream and concealer primer with hyaluronic acid.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dark Circles, and Puffiness
Formulation: Lightweight Gel
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Horse Chestnut: A flowering tree that reduces the look of puffiness.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Hydrates, nourishes, and visibly renews.
- Green Tea: Rich in antioxidants to help defend against environmental stressors.
$125.00
I love it, it leaves my eye area super hydrated and with a younger and more luminous appearance. ...Best eye cream ever...i have always had tired stressed eyes used this incredible eye cream for a week immediate results refreshed eyes lines are non existent my eyes are tight smooth and luminous
What it is: A next-gen eye cream that reduces the appearance of deep-set lines and wrinkles, visibly lifts and firms droopy, sagging lids and folds, and restores visible elasticity.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Loss of Firmness and Elasticity
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Encapsulated Retinal: Highly efficacious vitamin A with 2.5X more effectiveness vs. free retinal.
- Gentian Root Extract: Helps improve appearance of sagging and drooping eyelid, folds, and under-eye bags.
- Oat-Firming Film: Provides a visible lifting effect immediately and over time.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, mineral oil, oxybenzone, an
$82.00
I have very dry skin and has fine lines around my eyes. This eye cream really moisturizes my eye area well and works great under make-up too. ...This is a very light yet super hydrating eye cream. I have oily type skin and the same goes for the skin around my eyes but this eye cream doesn’t feel too heavy or greasy like other moisturizing creams.
What it is: A hydrating, visibly firming eye gel with caffeine and peptides that reduces the appearance of puffiness, fine lines, and wrinkles.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Loss of Firmness and Elasticity, and Puffiness
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Caffeine: Known to reduce the appearance of puffiness around the eyes.
- Tetrapeptide Blend: A blend of highly active peptides that visibly firms and smooths skin to reduce the look of puffiness.
- Rosemary Leaf Extract: Soothes skin and minimizes swelling.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone.