The average cost of upper eyelid surgery ranges between $3,500 and $5,000.  Risks are generally minimal but complications can arise. These include damage to the tear duct, inability to fully close the eyelid, and nerve damage to name a few.  Removing too much skin can result in a “hollow” look. There are also several conditions which increase the risks associated with upper eyelid surgery. You may be excluded as a candidate for this procedure if you have any of the following conditions: dry eyes, high blood pressure, diabetes, hypothyroidism, cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, or Graves’ disease. Your physical structure, including bone and supporting structure, may also affect your eligibility.

So what are the alternatives if you can’t afford surgery, don’t want to undergo surgery or suffer from a condition that eliminates you as a candidate?  First, forget the various eye creams; they don’t work.  Before I took the bull by the horns to find my own solution for drooping eyelid skin, I tried them all. False hope, false advertising.  Some people claim that facial exercises can help. Strengthening the muscles that lose tone over many years certainly makes good sense but requires months of diligent focus to see results.  I ordered a facial exercise program and lasted exactly three days.

There are also two other less invasive procedures that claim to offer an alternative to upper eyelid surgery, although you’re still in the “patient” category.  They also involve considerable expense and time.

The first is laser skin resurfacing. Using a controlled beam of light, the outer layers of skin are removed in hopes of stimulating the production of collagen.  This treatment appears to be very effective for damaged facial skin.  It is recommended for fine to moderate wrinkles, liver spots or age spots, uneven skin tones, sun-damaged skin and acne or chickenpox scars. Laser skin resurfacing is not at all convincing as a solution for drooping upper eyelids, however, unless the droop is very minor.  Someone actually burns the top layer off your eyelids?  Shudder.  This procedure requires significant downtime and has a potentially painful healing period.

Another treatment touted as a “breakthrough” alternative to blepharoplasty is Thermage.  This procedure uses radiofrequency on the skin, and like laser resurfacing, is supposed to stimulate the growth of new collagen around the eyes and to tighten up existing skin. Thermage claims to soften crow’s feet, reduce hooding of the brow, and eliminate under-eye bags.  Again it’s not clear to me how radiofrequency can effectively treat significant sagging of the upper eyelid skin.  The websites themselves characterize the results as “modest”. As of yet, I’ve found no convincing photographic evidence that either of these two alternatives are particularly effective on drooping upper eyelid skin.

If you analyze the problem of drooping eyelid skin, it’s clear that to “fix” the problem, you either have to remove the excess skin surgically or find a way to keep the excess skin from drooping.  It took me three years (see the Eye Magic Story blog entry) to figure it out, but happily, I did.  My product, Eye Magic , does exactly what’s necessary–prevents the droop by holding back the sagging eyelid skin.  Not only does the product provide a non-surgical solution to the problem of drooping eyelids, but I’ve been able to help thousands of other women (and men) save money, time, and hassle with this effective alternative.

You can visit our website to see how it works; there’s lots of information and a video.  It’s easy. Eye Magic restores your eyes to a more youthful shape just like surgery, lasts all day and takes years off your face, without the cost and potential complications of going under the knife.  You’re not a “patient” and you get your eyelids back now.  I use it every day.  So if drooping eyelid skin is your problem, try Eye Magic first before you take the risk or spend the big bucks.  As I like to say, “You won’t believe your eyes!”

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