You sure you're applying face lotion on correctly?

The other day I was on the train and I saw a lady putting moisturizer on her face. Yes, I know nothing shocking about that apart from she's doing it on the train and not at home or toilet. But what did get to me was, she applied it wrong! So what exactly did she do then, you must be thinking. She put some moisturizer on the palm of her hand, rubbed her hands together and aggressively (not even gently) rubbed both of her hands on her face.  Ok, if that's the way you apply yours, you must stop now!

First of all, you're not suppose to put face lotion on the eye areas. The skin around the eyes are really delicate and face moisturizers are too strong for those areas. You should be using eye cream/ gel, etc basically product that is designed for the eyes. Second of all, putting cream the way she did and aggressively can create    small wrinkles.

The correct way...
When applying eye cream, you should be gentle. Gently dab across the skin under the eye, dab until the cream has been absorbed. For the upper part of the eye, you should also dab under the brow bone and a bit on the crease of the eye. Do not rub the cream in because that will create wrinkles under the eye, so you got to be dabbing gently.


The diagram below shows the motion that the moisturizer should be applied in. The red ovals in the diagram indicates where the eye cream should be applied.(Took me ages to draw this!)

Apply about 1cm dollop of cream (or more if needed) on each of these areas; forehead, nose, chin, both cheeks (maybe a little more on the cheeks).
When you put the cream on, imagine you've split your face in 2 halves.
From the middle of forehead; rub out to the left and rub out to the right on the other half of the forehead.
The nose; rub it down the nose.
For the cheeks and chin;  rub outwards, starting from the jawline and up to the cheeks.

Always do it in outward motion, this is like giving yourself a face lift and will prevent wrinkles. 

This also applies to anything you put on to your face; toner, serum, etc.