Oh..the many nights I cried myself to sleep to wake up to beautifully swollen eyes. Ick.

The cold compress doesn't seem to work well for my puffy eyes, but you can certainly try it. I usually just splash freezing cold water over my eyes a couple times and I hold it there for about 5 seconds.

They say drink lots of water when you have puffy eyes, because it's a sign of water retention or something.

I've also heard you can chill two teabags in the fridge and hold those over your eyes. I would put em' in the freezer, it'll probably be faster that way.

What I recommend, because this is what I do, I put on white eye shadow (I don't know if a darker one would look better or worse, but you can experiment, I just know white works for me) and a thin line of black eyeliner (under the lashes), or make it really thin if you want it on top, and some mascara. It makes it less noticeable, well for me it has. You could give it a shot, see if it works.

I've never tried the cucumbers, but that's well worth a try.

Has anyone here on hubpages actually put cucumbers over their eyes, did it work?

You can also try a gel-pack, I like those things, but I end up falling fastly asleep, lol

Oh yeah, and don't rub your eyes! Avoid touching them as well.

Get a good night's sleep the next time around and no crying this time!! Or else you'll have to go through all that trouble again to have puffless eyes.

As the day goes on, you will notice a difference. They most likely will go down and be much less noticeable......unless of course you got somethin' funky goin' on with your eyes! jk =)

Or, see if you can get away with a pair of stunna shades to disguise them. Hey, my mom does that it drives me nuts, cause I can't see where she's lookin' and she'll wear em' inside...I'm like MA We're inside take those darn things off!

She doesn't listen to me though, haha....what mom listens to their kid anyway! lol

Well, that's another idea, hope these helped some, for when you do get those puffed up eyes (hopefully not though). BUT just in case, come to this hub and you'll find all the answers your lookin' for to get rid of puffy eyes. Well, maybe not so much, but I tried.......I hope that counts for somethin!;0)