To prepare a cosmetic for the skin around eyes, effectively preventing and ameliorating the change in skin characteristics of the skin around the eyes such as the reduction of tenseness of the skin around the eyes, and the generation of wrinkles and slackening of the skin, hardly causing unpleasant feeling at the skin around the eyes caused by tense feeling, and providing excellent sense of use.

This cosmetic for the skin around the eyes contains a copolymer of 2-methacryloyloxyethylphosphorylcholine and a hydrophobic monomer such as n-butyl methacrylate, an acetylated hyaluronic acid and a polyhydric alcohol.