When should you apply eye cream?
After serums, before moisturizer, in both your morning and evening routines. Eye cream follows the same thinnest-to-thickest logic as the rest of the skincare order: it is a targeted treatment layer, so it touches skin before the heavier face cream that would otherwise block it.
Morning vs night: match the active
Morning is for caffeine eye products, because overnight fluid accumulation is what caffeine visibly reduces; a cooled, de-puffed eye area also sits better under concealer. Night is for retinol eye creams and peptide formulas working on the look of lines and firmness. A combined formula like the OKOA Comprehensive Caffeine Eye Cream, caffeine plus Argireline, runs both slots.
Reviews of eye cream ingredients confirm the split: caffeine for puffiness, peptides and retinoids for the look of lines.
Morning ends with sunscreen over the eye area, the step that prevents more eye-area aging than any cream reverses.
The technique
A pea-size amount covers both eyes. Dot it along the orbital bone, the ridge you feel around the socket, and pat with the ring finger, your weakest, until absorbed. Never rub or drag; under-eye skin is the thinnest on the face and does not forgive tugging. Stay on the bone rather than the lash line, because product applied too close migrates into eyes overnight.
Give it thirty seconds to settle, then continue to moisturizer, keeping the heavier cream just outside the eye zone so the treatment layer stays undiluted.
