Hi Shasta, As I grow older, I am noticing the under-eye darkness a little more, but then again, I, like you, know I don't get enough sleep at night either. When I do manage to get 7 hours of sleep a night for several nights in a row, it seems to help. Seven hours seems to be the golden number for me. I don't notice the darkness and my face doesn't look so tired. My 4 legged hairy "kids" wake me up early to let them outside, and to eat, so that doesn't help either. On weekends, they don't know it's the weekend, and they wake up pretty much the same time as they do during the week. I usually go to bed around 11:00/11:30 PM and get up weekdays at 5:30 AM. Weekends I usually get up about 6:30 AM/7:00 AM. There never seems to be enough hours in the day, does there?