ĐIỀU GÌ CẦN KỲ VỌNG & LÀM THẾ NÀO ĐỂ CHĂM SÓC
📖 The Essential Crease Maintenance Guide
The Crease Maintenance Guide is your fold’s reference manual. It shows why small habits — tracing, gaze-up holds, and gentle removals — are key to lasting results. Clear, science-backed, and easy to follow, it turns crease care into a set of daily rituals that keep your fold stable and elegant.
💖Crease Maintenance Guide🎀
- Trace & Hold for 2–3 minutes after removing tapes. Gentle 20–30 traces, then a calm tail hold. Your crease loves routine.
- Morning gaze up for one minute. Think “tall eyes” while you blink softly.
- Hands off the lids. No rubbing, tugging, or heroic towel wipes.
- De-puff basics — 7–8 hrs sleep, hydrate, lighter-on-salt dinners.
- Dry time — keep sweat and water away for about 4 hours after removal.
🔬💞 Science Behind Your Crease
Relaxed skin tension lines (RSTL) are the “preferred fold paths.” When your developing crease lines up with them and gets light, regular cues, it forms faster and holds longer.
Consistency beats intensity. Friendly, repeat cues > hard pressing. Morning gaze-up plus calm blinking teaches the lid where to fold without drama.
🧠✨ Eyelid Types & Anatomy
- Thin skin, fast feedback. Small tension changes show quickly — great for training.
- Good placement = smooth drape. The upper skin flows instead of bunching at the lash line.
- Follow your line. Aligning with the dominant tension line makes the crease feel stable day to day.
📖 Deeper dive
When placed well, skin, fat, muscle and the tarsal plate move together as one team. If a starter crease sits too close to the lashes, it lacks internal pressure and fades. A slightly higher line supported by RSTL recruits more layers to bend together — stronger fold, happier mornings.
⚙️💗 How Optifold Tapes Stimulate a Crease
🧪 Why this works
Light, directional loads activate mechanotransduction pathways that encourage the skin to bend along the same track again and again. The target is repetition with minimal swelling — not force.
💧 Puffiness & Water Retention
Puffiness can “fill in” a developing crease. Shrink the swell and the crease shows up brighter.
🛌 Sleep details
Too little or too much can nudge water retention. Keep a consistent schedule and a relaxed wind-down. Your eyelids love boring bedtime routines.
🧂 Salty foods
High sodium can pull fluid into tissues. Ease up on late-night salty snacks and hydrate earlier for a fresher morning crease.
😢 Crying before bed
Tears and wiping can irritate the lid margin. If it happens, rinse gently, pat dry, and give the lids a little cooldown before taping.
🍷 Alcohol (incl. alcohol flush info)
Alcohol can temporarily reduce anti-diuretic hormone and shift water balance. Some people experience alcohol flush — warmth or redness even after small amounts. If you notice next-day puffiness, scale back the night before important days and hydrate earlier. Bodies vary — follow your signals.
🚫 Things That Flatten a Crease
- Rubbing or pressing on the lids.
- Getting lids wet or sweaty soon after removal.
- Looking down for long stretches — lift screens to eye level.
- Heavy evening salt or alcohol routines.
- Oversleeping that leaves the face puffy.