Peter Thomas Roth FIRMx Temporary Eye Tightener (2-Pack)

I hope there's enough character space for my review lol. OK, so after seeing this and similar products bombarding my social media, I caved out of curiosity. I was SURE the reviews were using a blurring effect. I can say that on that part, I was wrong BUT this is not a good product one bit! I have eye bags that take time throughout my day to unswell. Cold fixes just do not work for me, creams, frozen spoons, the gel patches. All of those tricks actually make me look more swollen. I wanted to find something that can help the swelling go down quickly so I could feel more comfortable in the daytime at work (since nighttime is when you don't really notice eyebags as much). So I really wanted to see if this product does what it claims and what everyone's raving about. Here we go: 1 - I used less than a pea size amount. Starting fanning myself and started to feel the tightening effect within a minute. Then it happened, I saw my eyebags start to disappear. I was in shock. I was like holy cow, this really works. It made my bags look almost non-existent and the color of it even seemed to mask my dark circles. I tried it on one eye without concealer and one eye over my concealer to see how the effects differed. It worked over the concealer but didn't tighten as nicely. I was 100% impressed and even thought I was so wrong when I doubted all these testimonies. 2 - I did not get the white beading some complained about. I am fair skinned and this left a white mask like shading on my eye area. I could see the clear difference in the color of this and my skin. I figured - fine, I could even it out with makeup on the rest of my skin. But here's where it went wrong: 3 - Not even 15 mins later, the defect happened. I read some reviews where people said the results go away if you start to make normal eye movements, Well this is 100% true. I could see my eyebags come back and they looked worse if that's even possible. The tightening feeling was still there but my eyebag resembled what a silicone boob looks like - squooshy with tight defined lines…it looked as if the bags were trying to break thru the tight barrier. That's when I was like "Ahhhh ok, there's the catch!!!" What's the point of tightening this so nicely only to have it wear off once you start making normal facial expressions? I honestly don't know how people are saying they are getting hours-long effect with this. I mean for crying out loud, some of the social media videos, the subjects have complete luggage sets under their eyes and it went away and mine aren't even half the size and so there's no way those Ad people are having all day effects when my normal bags didn't even get 15 mins out of it lol The immediate effect was beyond amazing but it does not last! I did it exactly how the instructions told me to. I wish I had the courage to post my before/after and video, so please just take my word for it! Other little things to be aware of. I don't know how people of a darker skin tone are using this because it gave me a light white mask look and I really didn't use a full pea size amount on either eye. It also feels like you have a thin layer of dried glue on your eyes (this feeling didn't bother me though). And when you wipe it off with a makeup remover wipe, you can feel that it has a chalky feel to it, so if you're expecting this to feel moisturizing, it doesn't at all. Also, if your eye tears, you have just completely ruined that eye because it literally takes off the cream in an instant and you can see your normal puffy skin. Unless I one day decide to splurge on surgery for the undereye area, I'm going to have to start embracing my 51 year old eyes because I'm finally learning, the expensive way, that there is no miracle cream that's going to take away the wrinkles and bags. I'll continue to moisturize and adjust my makeup habits under the eye so I don't accentuate my flaws as much but as far as this product goes, it's a definite NO for me. I'm really surprised at the reviews of people saying they have great all day results because I just don't see how it's possible. Good luck to anyone using it!