Periorbital Support
how the bone and tissue around your eyes hold up — and why it reads before your face does
Grounded in the research on Wikipedia: Orbit (anatomy) / Periorbita; clinical periorbital aesthetic anatomy (tear-trough / orbital rim literature)
so what even is this?
Periorbital just means "around the eye socket." Periorbital support is how well the bone rim, fat pads, and skin around your eye hold their shape instead of sinking. Strong support reads as a flat, rested under-eye and an eye that sits well in the face. Weak support reads as hollowing, shadow, and a tired look. It's the frame around the eye, not the eye itself.
wait, what's actually going on under there?
Anatomically your eyeball sits in a bony socket cushioned by fat pads, capped by thin skin and the orbital rim. Clinical periorbital and tear-trough literature shows that with age the rim resorbs and those fat pads shift and deflate, so the surface loses its backing and casts a shadow. That's real, documented anatomy. How deep your rim sits is mostly genetic and structural — you inherited the frame.