Add The New York Post on Google I have been living with stinging, dry eyes for years. If you’re like me and stare at glowing screens all day, you probably know exactly what I am talking about. And it doesn’t help when the air outside is like puffing on ten cigarettes at the same time.
When I discovered the Heated Eye Wand by Peep Club, I was intrigued. After having used it for a month, I’m convinced. This is the treatment I have been in search of for years.
My eye troubles go back all the way to the beginning. I was prescribed glasses in third grade, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I was wearing contacts daily. For decades, I completely neglected my eye health. By the time I hit middle age, contacts were becoming too painful to wear for more than a few hours at a time.
Then, sitting in my optometrist’s chair, she told me I was suffering from something called Meibomian Gland Dysfunction. Also known as MGD, it is basically a chronic condition where the tiny, crucial oil glands inside your eyelids get blocked up with accumulated years of gunk. Without that essential oil, your tears just evaporate immediately, leaving you with dry, burning, aggressively twitching peepers.
The doctor told me to use a hot compress for thirty minutes every night before bedtime, but who has thirty spare minutes to lie completely motionless, eyes covered with a dripping washcloth plastered to their face? It’s a lot to ask, even for something I so obviously needed.
The damp cloth would get cold and clammy after about three minutes. The whole wetness factor was just messy, inconvenient and completely unsustainable. Unsurprisingly, I couldn’t keep to the routine. I threw in the towel — or threw out the towel, I guess.
I had almost resigned myself to twitching eyelids and perpetually itchy eyes when I was offered an interview with Nicola Alexander-Cross, an optometrist and beauty-tech entrepreneur, at a cafe in the heart of Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron district. Over coffee, she explained her journey from management consulting to starting Peep Club, a company dedicated to the proposition that we should treat our eyes with the same care we lavish on our skin, hair and diet.
Nicola is definitely not your average eye doctor. Though she actually started her career in the fast-paced world of business consulting, she grew up watching her father, who is also an optometrist, making a tangible difference in the everyday lives of his patients. She soon realized she wanted to combine her knack for business with her clinical eye for eye care to help the people who really need it.
Nicola told me her ultimate goal was to completely reframe eye care from the ground up. She wants to pivot it from a second thought into a luxurious, everyday self-care ritual. Her argument is that we should care for our eyes the same way we apply anti-aging skin serums and floss our teeth. To make this ambitious vision a reality, she created an entire line of Peep Club products, ranging from daily nutritional supplements to soothing wipes and balms, all designed to make eye care genuinely enjoyable.
The crown jewel of her innovative collection is the Peep Club Heated Eye Wand, developed hand-in-hand by leading clinical optometrists in the UK. This sleek, futuristic device boasts ten major design improvements over the brand’s already beloved original wand range. It is essentially a high-tech spa treatment that fits right in the palm of your hand.
The wand features five modes specifically designed to soothe and relieve tired, dry eyes. The temperature-controlled hot compress mode produces heat on the metal tip that you rub across your upper and lower eyelids. It is clinically proven, and I found it to be much better than the old, messy warm compress because it holds the perfect temperature for my eyes without cooling down.
After applying some balm, I used heat with the gentle massage mode, which is a vibrating feature that helped not only break up the clogs in my oil glands but also worked wonderfully to de-puff my eyes at the end of the day.
But the real magic lies in the wand’s high-tech light therapy, which features three LED modes. Red LED light has been scientifically shown to help smooth out the appearance of fine lines over time with regular, daily use. The Green and Amber LED lights work to reduce redness and the dark, shadowy appearance of stubborn under-eye circles.
Needless to say, I completely ditched the wet washcloths for good. Now, my nightly routine is a total breeze, and I actually look forward to it. Before I power on the magic wand, I generously swipe on Peep Club’s Dry Under Eye Correcting Lidstick. It’s an intensely soothing, deeply hydrating balm that I generously apply over my upper and lower eyelids.
Previous 1 of 3 Next Dry Under Eye Correcting LidstickPeep Wand Green light LEDPeep Club Amber light LEDPeep Club Then, I use the Heating Wand consistently for ten minutes right before my head hits the pillow. The physical transformation has been nothing short of spectacular. My uncontrollable eye twitches and flutters have become less frequent, and now, after three weeks, I have gone several days without any itching irritation.
Whether you suffer from dry eyes or you simply need a relaxing way to take care of your eyes and keep them young for years to come, Peep Club is dedicated to making your eye care a daily practice.
This article was written by Brooklyn-based financial journalist and Commerce Editor for the New York Post Will Kenton. Specializing in investing, personal finance and retirement planning, Will’s expertise is rooted in behavioral economics — a field he explored as associate editor of the New School Economics Review. Will aims to help readers navigate the “predictable irrationality” that influences financial decisions, providing practical real-world solutions to student loan debt, investments, mortgages and more. Before joining The Post in 2026, Will covered the intersection of money, economics and culture for Investopedia, AP News, Business Insider and TIME Stamped.
