The 16 Best Eye Creams

Even eye cream snobs will be impressed with this ultra-rich, balm-like formula. Use a thin layer in the morning to take an advantage of the caffeine extract, then layer it on eye contours and around your lips at night so moisturizing jasmine and hyaluronic acid can get to work. 

On the flip side, this drugstore gel-cream is perfect for those who aren't quite convinced that eye creams work. It's too affordable to not add into your routine, and offers up fast-absorbing hyaluronic acid, licorice extract, and vitamins.  

An Anti-Aging Award winner for 2020, this wallet-friendly eye cream rivals pricier formulas. It's made with retinol formulated for use around the eye area, so lines will be eliminated without irritation. 

Elevate your eye-treatment experience with La Prairie's two-piece, color-enhancing eye cream. You'll quickly understand why it landed a spot on BAZAAR's 2020 Anti-Aging Awards list. 

If thick and rich eye creams are just not your thing, get an eye serum instead. Tatcha's Luminous Deep Hydration Firming Eye Serum feels weightless on your skin but still plumps fine lines and wakes up tired eyes in just one application.

This is a classic example of not judging a book—or eye cream—by its cover. Sure, this formulas is backed by Kylie Jenner, but it's also one of the most effective eye creams we've used at instantly disguising dark circles and reducing puffiness. The banana-tinted cream deeply hydrates without making skin slick, so you can use less concealer on top and feel good knowing that it won't slip around.

This is the eye cream you'll want to use every morning—but particularly after a sleepless night. The mix of luminous optical brighteners and vitamin c instantly disguise darkness and discoloration under the eye. You might even be tempted to skip concealer altogether.

It has the consistency of avocado pudding, and that's exactly why we love it. Slathered under the eye, it deeply hydrates and plumps without slipping or sliding into your eyes, making it ideal if you're at all sensitive. 

This jelly eye cream hydrates for a full 24 hours, while softening the look of dark circles in less than a month. It won't help you get more sleep, but it at least makes you look like you did. 

This eye cream is truly like a multivitamin for your under-eyes. The natural formula uses vitamin c, peptides, antioxidants, and soothing cucumber to repair UV and age-related damage under the eye without irritation.

Perfect for layering under makeup, this eye cream has diamond powder to brighten your eyes in seconds, plus hyaluronic acid and shea butter to fend off fine lines.

This Moisturizing Eye Bomb does exactly what it sounds like it's going to do. The cooling, gel-like cream makes skin look bouncier and fresher within seconds of tapping it on. It continues to hydrate your eyes for 26 hours, even when worn under makeup.

Some people prefer an oil over a cream. If you're one of those people, give this clean-beauty eye oil from Miranda Kerr a go. It's packed with certified organic noni, tomato fruit, marine bamboo extracts, kahai and coffee oils to deeply hydrate, energize, and brighten. Plus, the roller feels amazing.

While you can use this morning or night, we really love it before applying concealer in the morning thanks to its cooling and soothing effect. The black tea ferment combined with other plant-derived anti-agers make puffy and tired under-eyes look perkier right away.

No eye cream can totally obliterate dark circles or deep wrinkles. But this balm-like formula comes close. Sweep it on before bed and you'll notice a serious difference in texture and color when you go to apply concealer the next morning. (On that note, we found it a little too thick to wear under makeup.) 

Fans of this anti-aging eye cream love the minimal scent, coddling but not thick texture, and the noticeable improvements in elasticity and brightness in as little as a week.