Instant FirmX Temporary Eye Tightener.

"It's marketed as an instant tightening and smoothing treatment for the under eye area that visibly reduces the appearance of fine lines and puffiness within minutes. I'm always skeptical of these kind of products that promise these drastic results in a few minutes. And there were a few reviews complaining that this product was a complete scam, but it works. This does work. It's a temporary dramatic result that disappears once you wash your face. It does seem to make a noticeable difference for most people and people are showing off their transformations all over Tik Tok, Instagram, and everywhere else."

"I used it on her 11s and on her forehead wrinkles. Bamp gone. She has a scar on her eyebrow, both eyebrows that really bug her. She has under eye wrinkles and a little bit of an eye bag under both eyes. Used it on both those things. Instantly looked so much better. So, this really works. I've got it on my neck today because I always feel like my neck is looking really crepey and really crinkly, especially when I look down like this. Like, there they are. But compared to what my neck normally looks like without this on, that is a far improvement. The reason I didn't put it with makeup is because it doesn't work well with makeup. Like you put makeup on over it and it reduces the effect by about 50%. You might need to play with it a little bit, but once you get the hang of it, it can really look great."

"These treatments work as a serum that you apply to the surface of your skin and let dry into essentially a film that contracts as it dries, making the skin look and feel tighter. It's kind of like if you put Elmer's glue on your skin and let it dry, it does feel like it shrinks and tightens that skin up underneath. One of the most popular versions of these instant tightening creams is from Peter Thomas Roth, and they had a video that went viral on TikTok showing the amazing results you can get from a cream like this. These may be great if you've got a wedding to go to or a class reunion or a hot date, but keep in mind that these results do fade away oftentimes within just a couple hours after that. You have to reapply it or you have to leave so they don't see how you really look. It's also important to realize that these creams will not permanently reduce the aging or permanently tighten up your skin. Sometimes these creams don't work very well if you're wearing makeup over them."

"The Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX does work, you remember when it went viral with the video of a lady applying it to her eye area and you could instantly see it tighten. The catch is you cannot easily apply makeup on top of it, it basically ruins the effect, so you have to choose between wanting your eye area to look a bit tighter temporarily, which isn't a permanent effect, or wearing makeup. For me, makeup wins every single day over a temporary tightening sensation that I didn't even like on my dry skin. No, no, no, no, no."

"The instant results are incredible and it really does look amazing, but give it about 30 minutes, an hour, an hour and a half, and [...] the formula pills up so quickly and bunches together, leaving this really gross appearance of so much texture and piled up product on the under-eye area that is almost more obvious than just leaving the eye bags the way they are. Particularly if you're someone like myself who's very expressive, who smiles a lot and makes a lot of faces, that's where I noticed the most intense downside of this product, it just bunches up so quickly. I remember trying to use this and talking to other makeup artists about it, and pretty much across the board they were like, 'Yeah, it looks really good at the beginning, but I ended up not using it anymore because after a certain time passed it would just look really bad on my clients.' This product has been around for so long, it is by no means a new technology or innovation. It's really unfortunate because I really would love those results to stay, but it's hard because you really won't find a product that gives this instantaneous of results that can fight against the natural movement and aging that we have in our face."

"This is the Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX, a product that's gone viral for the last two years on social media because the effects are so dramatic. What's actually happening is it's essentially an acrylic polymer of sorts that forms a glue on the surface of the skin, and that glue tightens and basically causes the under eyes to essentially just collapse in on itself. The pros are that it has an immediate effect. The cons are some people are allergic to the acrylic, and second con that we see is that with movement of the eye, eventually that glue basically falls apart. It can leave a residue on the skin that some people don't like, so it doesn't last very long and it also can create a residue that's difficult to layer makeup over. But even with makeup, it does actually not create a chalky appearance."

"It has sodium silicate, and as it dries down it just tightens the skin. It's very temporary, but it definitely works. One issue is it's all in the application. These can get really flaky and peel up, and depending on your skin, for some people that's more of an issue. I actually never ran into that issue with this, but I see that complaint a lot. I think a lot of it may just have to do with your skin, especially if you have oily skin. My eyelids are not particularly oily, but some people do have really oily eyelids, and I think that would make it peel up more readily."

"I got this a while ago not for me but I have a couple people that I wanted to try this on, couple friends and family. It's this instant eye tightener. I'm going to put up some before and after pictures on the screen. It is insane the results that this can get instantly. It's like almost face lift type of results in minutes. These before and after pictures are actually real. This stuff is really cool."

"I tried the viral Peter Thomas Roth Instant Firm X eye tightener way back when, and it worked. It helped to smooth and snatch my under eye area. I have these fine lines sometimes, and sometimes they look a little deeper than fine, kind of like medium fine or whatever, and it helped tremendously. However, there was a learning curve in getting to use it because use too much and your under eye area could be snatched, but then it be ashy at the same time. But the brand just came out with a new and improved version that promises no white cast. It's a little bit tinted and it's a lot easier to work with. These work like shrink wrap film. They're fast drying film formers. As water evaporates, the film contracts like a micro shrink wrap, gently pulling the skin flatter so that the fine lines and puffiness look smoother. Sometimes products like this use something colloquially called liquid glass which helps the film set rigidly as it dries. But you're getting cosmetic physics here, not collagen boosting."