If your eyes are the window to your soul, what does that say about your under eyes?
At Archway Aesthetics, we think of this delicate, thin area as the foundational support for your eyes, essential for creating harmony and balance across your entire face. When this area is healthy, smooth, and well-supported, it enhances the eyes’ natural beauty, brightens your expression, and helps maintain a youthful, refreshed appearance.
Because the skin here is thinner and more fragile than other parts of the face, it requires a thoughtful approach with treatments tailored to strengthen, hydrate, and protect it, ensuring long-term facial balance and vitality.
You may think the best way to achieve that appearance is with under-eye filler. In Summerlin South, our Team Members would advise you to consider other options like cheek fillers, PRP injections, and SkinMedica’s Instant Bright Eye Cream. If you’re considering under-eye filler, you may be wanting to target dark circles, hollowness, or bags under your eyes. However, these alternatives can correct your concerns and improve the foundational support to your eyes often better than under eye filler can.
With education as a cornerstone of our practice, we believe that for you to understand why cheek filler, PRP injections, and SkinMedica’s Instant Bright Eye Cream are the better alternatives, we first need to explain and assess what causes you those under-eye aesthetic concerns.
Understanding the Under Eyes
The area around your eyes is most susceptible to signs of aging, lifestyle changes, and environmental factors. Because the skin here is thinner and contains fewer oil glands, it is more prone to fine lines, puffiness, dark circles, and loss of volume. Stress, lack of sleep, dehydration, sun exposure, and genetics can all accelerate these changes, making the under-eye area one of the first places to show fatigue or age.
Aging
You make a lot of facial expressions throughout your life, often causing you to squint or widen your eyes in reaction to what’s happening. When you convey shock, joy, and even anger, you move the muscles around your eyes, which has a substantial effect on your skin. When you were younger, your skin simply repositioned itself back into place after these expressions.
Now, your skin may be weaker and thinner, casting shadows that make under-eye circles appear darker. We attribute this to a decline in 2 vital proteins in your body, collagen and elastin. These proteins keep your skin firm, smooth, and flexible, giving you the ability to make those expressions without leaving lasting marks on the skin. As they decline, you become more susceptible to lines, wrinkles, and skin sagging, leaving you searching for solutions like under-eye filler in Summerlin South.
Genetics
Passed down from your family tree are all the traits that make you so unique. From head to toe, your genetics determine your hair and eye color, body composition, and even facial structure. Meaning that if you have family members with dark circles under their eyes, it’s likely that you inherited those genes from either your mother, father, or both.
The same goes for hollowness, your face’s structure can cause shadows under your eyes, which create the look of dark circles.
Lifestyle Factors
We can’t talk about under eyes without mentioning the importance of getting a solid 7 to 9 hours of rest. There’s a reason they call it beauty sleep. Without it, you can wake up with dark circles, pale skin, and even redness around your eyes—among other things. If your lifestyle is the reason for thinning skin or dark circles, our Team Members advise against under-eye filler in Summerlin South. Instead, we guide you towards a more holistic approach that focuses on correcting lifestyle factors that jeopardize your health.
While we pride ourselves on helping our Guests recognize their inherent beauty, we place the most value in making you feel cared for. If you’re not getting enough sleep, you can talk to our Team Members who prioritize personalized care to aesthetics. Together, we can create a plan to help you minimize dark circles through a combination of aesthetics services and holistic remedies.
Why Our Team Members Prefer Cheek Filler to Under-Eye Filler
As a reminder, dermal fillers are injectable treatments that restore volume to skin and enhance your facial contours. At Archway Aesthetics, we only use FDA-approved products like Juvederm and Restylane, both of which use hyaluronic acid (HA) to give you natural-looking results.
It seems like the most obvious solution for dark circles and thinning skin is under-eye filler in Summerlin South. In reality, because the skin under your eyes is so thin and delicate, it’s more difficult to achieve the ideal aesthetic outcome.
Often, midface volume loss, particularly the natural thinning or shifting of the fat pads in the cheeks, can make hollowness under the eyes appear more pronounced. These fat pads provide structural support to the lower eyelid area, and when they diminish with age, weight changes, or genetics, the under-eye region can look sunken, shadowed, or tired. In such cases, restoring volume to the cheeks with filler can lift and support the under-eye area, creating a more natural and refreshed look.
Without this midface support, placing filler only under the eyes can sometimes accentuate puffiness, as there is no foundational structure to balance and blend the transition from the lower eyelid to the cheek. By addressing the cheeks first, we ensure a smoother contour, better light reflection, and longer-lasting, more harmonious results.
Think of it this way: windows are the eyes to the soul, under eyes are the foundational support, and cheeks are the walls of the house. Neglecting the walls can lead to a structural imbalance, causing the windows to appear sunken or overly prominent. That’s why we usually suggest midface filler to harmonize and balance your face better than under-eye filler in Summerlin South could.
For midface filler, we typically rely on Juvederm Voluma, a hyaluronic acid-based filler specifically designed to restore volume, provide lift, and enhance contour in the cheeks and midface region. Its thicker, gel-like consistency allows it to integrate smoothly with the tissue while offering the structural support needed to lift and rejuvenate the under-eye area indirectly. Voluma is formulated to provide long-lasting results, often up to 2 years, and its ability to attract and retain moisture helps maintain a natural, youthful look over time. By strategically placing Voluma in the midface, we can restore the gentle curves of the cheeks, improve facial balance, and soften the appearance of under-eye hollowness or shadows without creating an overfilled look.
When Under-Eye Filler Is Preferred
There are certain cases where a Guest may benefit more from under-eye filler in Summerlin South. We determine this by carefully assessing whether the tear trough area has true hollowing and evaluating the overall structure of your under-eyes.
We then examine the skin’s firmness and elasticity to ensure it can properly support the hyaluronic acid filler. At Archway Aesthetics in Summerlin South, we use Juvederm for under-eye treatments because its smooth consistency makes it ideal for delicate areas such as the under eyes and lips.
Dermal fillers restore lost volume and smooth hollowness, creating a more youthful and contoured appearance. They do not, however, improve skin texture or correct pigmentation.
PRP Injections
A PRP facial boosts your body’s collagen production, restoring your skin to its healthy, natural firmness. This holistic approach uses your body’s natural processes as a resource for healing.
PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma, a concentrate made from your blood to accelerate skin healing, regeneration, and improve elasticity. Platelets are found in your blood, and they play a crucial role in blood clotting and helping your body heal. Within the platelets are growth factors, which improve and strengthen skin integrity, as well as plasma, proteins, hormones, and vitamins. All of these work together to revive your under eyes.
The process for PRP injections goes as follows:
Step 1: Collecting Blood
We start by collecting blood from your arm, similar to a routine blood draw. We place this blood into a centrifuge to separate the platelets and form the rich under-eye reviving concentrate.
Step 2: Injecting the PRP Near Your Under eyes
The next step for PRP as an under-eye filler in Summerlin South is injecting it into the treatment area.
Step 3: Your Body Takes Action
The injection sets off a cascade of events inside your body as the PRP stimulates new collagen production and improves circulation.
Step 4: Repeat
PRP requires at least 3 to 5 sessions to see the ideal reduction in under-eye circles and increase in skin firmness and tightness.
Step 5: Admire Your Results
Now you can see what we see: a beautiful and radiant person. PRP can thicken the skin around your under eyes and boost circulation in the area to reduce the appearance of dark circles.
PRP + Microneedling
For optimal results, we recommend pairing the PRP facial with microneedling to further stimulate collagen production.
Microneedling is also known as collagen induction therapy. It involves using fine needles to create micro-injuries in the skin. Though unseen, these tiny punctures promote healing, collagen, and fresh skin cells.
When paired together, a PRP facial and microneedling can penetrate to deeper layers of skin, like the dermis where collagen and elastin fibers are stored. This produces optimal, natural, and holistic results.
PRP + microneedling can reduce dark circles caused by pigmentation, which under-eye filler in Summerlin South cannot do.
SkinMedica Instant Bright Eye Cream
For under eye bags, crepiness, dark circles, and other visible signs of aging around the eyes, we recommend SkinMedica’s Instant Bright Eye Cream. This rejuvenating product works in tandem with fillers and PRP injections to support your treatment at home. Using ingredients like Phenylethyl Resorcinol and Marine extracts, you can correct the appearance of hyperpigmentation and shadowing or darkness. Hyaluronic acid, caffeine, and silk tree extract moisturize the skin and give it a firm radiance.
Step Through Our Archway
At Archway Aesthetics, we craft every detail of our space to inspire a sense of empowerment. When you step through our archway, you will feel valued, heard, and cared for because our Team Members see you as more than a Guest, but the center of our attention.
We offer services that help you see the best version of yourself—the version we see. From facials to Botox to laser resurfacing, we personalize every treatment to you through holistic, science-backed and long-term solutions.
Here’s what you can expect when you step through our archway for treatments like under-eye filler in Summerlin South.
One-on-One Consultations
From the moment you step inside our luxury space, you’ll experience genuine hospitality. You should consider us your Trusted Advisors, who are more focused on building a relationship with you above anything else. It’s through this relationship that we can truly personalize a curated experience for you.
Personalized Treatments
Based on our conversations, we build tailored treatment plans to help you see the beautiful person that we see. All of our services enhance your features, never overpower them. We celebrate uniqueness and individuality. Whether you’re getting Botox and fillers, PRP + microneedling, or a combination of all 3, we make sure that every approach to aesthetics is personalized.
New Beginnings
It’s the start of a long and beautiful relationship when you step through our archway. Most of our treatments require maintenance, but you might also find interest in our other luxury services.
Our Values
With you as our top priority, we hope you feel a sense of belonging when you visit our Team Members. We believe that we have achieved the best way of doing aesthetics, which is by focusing on hospitality, celebrating culture and diversity, and continuing our education to provide you with the highest level of care. The best way of doing aesthetics is the Arch-way.
Experience True Hospitality
Eyes reflect the soul, and our services fortify the under-eyes to ensure firm, strong, and bright support. You can trust our Team Members to find the right treatment for you and help you recognize your true beauty.
To experience true luxury, reserve an appointment, and one of our Team Members will reach out with available appointment times and potential alternatives to under-eye filler in Summerlin South.
