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Eye cream hasn’t helped my wrinkles — what will?

QMY UNDER-EYES have gone crepey. I have been using expensive eye cream day and night for years, with little effect. Is there anything else I can do?

AI’VE been shopping around for the best way to tackle this myself (a good eye cream such as Elequra Eye Architecture Cream, €51, elequra.com, will help delay new lines, but it won’t delete existing ones), and have plumped for platelet-rich plasma (or PRP) therapy.

Your specialist doctor will take some of your blood, extract its regenerating growth factors and inject this plasma under your eyes.

I was given just two deep jabs to flood my under-eyes with plasma, causing grotesque swelling for 48 hours.

However, afterwards, I saw a subtle softening and smoothing of my under-eye skin, with the promise of steady improvement as my body’s own collagen production gets revved up.

Other doctors prefer multiple injections into the very top, as well as deeper, skin layers; this may be more effective at providing both an instant and longterm effect.

The most important thing, as always, is to find a qualified physician. A minimum of three sessions is required, starting from €350. The treatment is available at clinics nationwide.

Despite the needles, this is one of the more gentle non-surgical under-eye procedures, which I think is important.

But be warned: too much stress on the skin, even when it’s ‘controlled damage’ to kick-start a healing and collagen-boosting process, may eventually age skin faster!

INGEBORG VAN LOTRINGEN is beauty director at Cosmopolitan. Email questions to features@dailymail.ie