Firmer skin around the eyes, built from your own collagen

The skin around the eyes is the thinnest on the face, and the most exposed. It has little of the oil-gland support that keeps the rest of the face cushioned, and it never rests: every blink and every expression moves it, many thousands of times a day. So the eye area is usually the first place the slow loss of structure becomes visible, as fine lines, a crepey texture, and a softening of what was once a firm contour.

SMOOTH mode treats that loss at its source. The laser delivers its energy as a sequence of sub-second pulses, each one adding a little warmth without letting heat build at the surface. The result is even, controlled heating a fraction of a millimetre down, in the layer of the skin where collagen is held.

Warmth at that depth prompts the skin to do two things: to remodel the collagen it already has, and to begin making new collagen of its own, a process called neocollagenesis. Across a course of sessions, the skin around the eyes firms and smooths because it has rebuilt its own structure. Nothing is placed in the face.

The improvement is the skin's own.

A session is mostly preparation. The eye area is numbed first, which takes thirty to forty minutes; the SmoothEye treatment itself is short, usually ten to fifteen minutes. With the numbing done, the laser feels like little more than warmth passing over the skin.

Most people have some redness in the treated area on the day, which settles over the first day or two. After that, SmoothEye asks for a little patience: the skin around the eyes moves through a phase of renewal, and around days four to six the eyelids can look crepey, and worse, before they recover. By day five to seven the eye area has calmed and tightened, though the exact timing varies from person to person. It helps to know the shape of this going in: the brief rough patch is not a setback but the skin renewing itself.

The recovery is real, but it is visible mostly to you: in most cases, nobody else will know you have had anything done. Your clinician guides you through the aftercare, and the clinic helps you time your sessions around your social calendar and the events that matter to you.

SmoothEye is done as a course rather than in a single visit. Most plans run to four to six sessions, three to six weeks apart, with the exact number and spacing decided by your clinician to suit your skin. Because the treatment prompts the skin to build collagen of its own, the result develops steadily across the course, and goes on improving for a time after the final session as the new collagen matures.

The skin around the eyes is delicate, and treating it well asks for an experienced hand. At Pink, SmoothEye is in the hands of two senior clinicians, Porsha and Stephy, who lead the clinic's anti-ageing practice. They examine the skin and set the plan themselves, and they are the ones who carry it out. You can meet them on the clinicians page.

SmoothEye also suits every skin type. Pink calibrates the treatment for the tone and condition of each person's skin, and holds every Fitzpatrick type to a single standard of care.

Six tones, one standard.