Crease Maintenance Guide
Real life crease stability
"Before the exercises, my crease would come and go and it honestly affected my mood all day. Once I started doing the eyelid crease exercises consistently, the crease stopped feeling ‘fragile.’ It became easier to reset when it acted up, and I felt way more confident because my eyes looked balanced again.” — M., Verified Client
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If your eyelid crease feels inconsistent, faint, or suddenly less cooperative, it does not mean your progress is gone. Most crease “issues” are temporary and predictable.
This page helps you recognize when your crease needs support, why those moments matter, and how to re-stabilize the crease pathway without overdoing it.
Crease maintenance is not about doing more. It is about doing the right thing at the right time.
If an exercise is not working, it is usually a technique issue (direction, pressure, or footprint). Email us for a quick correction.
Figure 1: Exercise sequence demonstration
Baseline blinking with an unstable crease pattern → Tracing-the-Line → Holding-the-Line → a more stable double eyelid crease outcome.
The eyelid crease exercises
These are three mechanical exercises that target how the upper eyelid initiates a crease and how that crease becomes repeatable across normal blinks.
Crease pathway: the route the eyelid repeatedly bends along during a blink.
Repeatable: the crease forms in the same place across many normal blinks.
Competing fold options: different bend routes that can take over depending on conditions.
Tracing-the-Line
Goal: make the intended crease pathway easier for the eyelid to find.
How to perform Tracing-the-Line
- Relax your face and keep your gaze neutral.
- Using an eyelid tool, identify the intended crease location (the path you want the eyelid to bend along).
- With light pressure, trace along that intended crease pathway in a smooth motion.
- Repeat several passes with consistent direction and consistent endpoint.
- Finish with a few natural blinks to let the eyelid “test” the pathway you just reinforced.
Why it works (science, in plain language)
Blinking is a repeated folding motion. If the eyelid has multiple competing fold options, it often defaults to the easiest mechanical route under the current conditions. Tracing-the-Line biases the skin toward one intended pathway, increasing the chance the eyelid selects that same crease route on the next blinks.
Holding-the-Line
Goal: reinforce the crease once the eyelid has found the correct pathway.
How to perform Holding-the-Line
- After Tracing-the-Line, place the eyelid tool on the same intended crease pathway.
- Apply gentle, steady compression (not scraping, not dragging).
- Hold briefly with consistent pressure, then release smoothly.
- Blink naturally a few times and observe whether the crease returns to the same spot.
Why it works (science, in plain language)
Once the eyelid is folding along the intended crease pathway, stability improves when the tissue repeatedly compresses and relaxes in that same route. Holding-the-Line strengthens that compression behavior so the crease becomes more repeatable under normal blinking.
Looking-Up
Goal: strengthen crease repeatability when gaze direction changes.
How to perform Looking-Up
- Keep your head still and move only your eyes.
- Look upward (comfortable up-gaze, not extreme).
- Blink naturally while holding the up-gaze briefly.
- Return to neutral gaze and blink again, observing whether the crease stays consistent.
Why it works (science, in plain language)
Gaze direction changes eyelid geometry. Some people notice their crease is stable in one angle but less stable in another, especially on the difficult eye. Looking-Up trains crease repeatability across geometry changes so the eyelid keeps choosing the same crease pathway.
When do I need eyelid crease exercises?
You may need crease exercises during or after the situations below. Tap a card to see why it matters.
🌅 After waking up in the morning MOST COMMON
After a long low-movement window (sleep), eyelid tissue often looks slightly puffier and the crease pathway can feel less “ready.” Small changes in thickness and surface tension make the eyelid more likely to default to an older fold option until the intended pathway is re-engaged.
📱 Long periods of looking down POSTURE
Down-gaze changes eyelid geometry. In that angle, the eyelid can initiate folding from a different starting point, which competes with the intended crease pathway. This is why creases often look weaker, shifted, or less repeatable after long scrolling, cooking, or any sustained down-gaze routine.
🎬 Low blinking (studying, reading, watching movies) DRYNESS
When blink rate drops, the eyelid does fewer full crease-forming cycles, so it gets fewer repetitions of consistent folding. Dryness can also change surface friction, which can make the crease pathway less predictable from blink to blink.
😭 After crying WATER RETENTION
Crying can temporarily change eyelid thickness and moisture, which shifts where the eyelid naturally wants to bend. Even mild puffiness can make the crease softer or uneven until the tissue settles back to baseline.
🏋️ After sweating, gym sessions, or sauna use HEAT
Heat and sweat increase hydration and soften skin behavior temporarily. When the eyelid surface is warmer and more hydrated, the crease can form but not lock into the same pathway as cleanly. That can show up as a crease that looks less sharp or less repeatable for a short window.
🚿 After showering MOISTURE
Steam and water change surface friction and the way eyelid skin folds. Hydrated skin can behave more “slippery,” which can make the crease pathway look softer or slightly displaced until normal tension returns.
🚗 Driving and squinting SQUINT
Squinting changes muscle balance and encourages partial-blink folding patterns. Repeating squint-biased folds can temporarily bias the eyelid toward a competing fold option rather than the intended crease pathway, especially on the difficult eye.
💻 Using a computer set below eye level ERGONOMICS
A low screen creates prolonged down-gaze and smaller blinks. That combination reduces clean crease-forming repetitions and increases time spent in a crease-unfriendly angle. The crease pathway can feel less stable until posture and blink mechanics return to normal.
🧴 After removing cosmetic day tapes RESET
Cosmetic day tapes can temporarily prop a fold. When they are removed, the mechanical guidance disappears instantly. The apply–remove cycle can briefly stimulate multiple skin tension directions, so the eyelid behaves like it has competing fold options rather than one stable crease pathway. This can make the crease look weaker, displaced, or inconsistent right after removal.
Skin tension lines: directions the skin naturally prefers to stretch and recoil. Stimulating multiple directions at once can temporarily create competing bend routes.
🌇 Early evening slump FATIGUE
By early evening, especially after poor sleep, blinks often become heavier, smaller, or less complete, and the eyelid-opening effort is less consistent. The eye area can also look a bit more puffy when you are tired, which changes how sharply the eyelid bends. Together, this makes the crease pathway less repeatable even if it looked stable earlier in the day.
What if this is not working for me?
If tracing or holding does not revive your crease, it usually means the technique needs a small correction.
Most common reasons
- The tracing direction is slightly off.
- The pressure is inconsistent.
- The crease footprint is being followed incorrectly.
These details are small but high impact. A quick review usually fixes the issue fast.