Your eyes show their age. But not in the way you think. The limbal ring – the dark area around the edge of the iris – becomes less noticeable with age or ill health, so dark ones may suggest vitality. Subjects judged faces with clearly visible limbal rings as more attractive than identical faces without rings in a 2011 University of California, Irvine study.

For the full story, please visit http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/health/2016/how-to-make-a-good-first-impression.

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