You can get blemishes/pimples in and
around (that's what I said exactly) the eye area. Most common are milia which look like small whiteheads, as well as cystic acne etc. Skin is skin. Although I disagree w/ you due to my own skincare experience about this, if you've never had nor seen someone with a pimple/zit in around the eye area than you're lucky. I won't make anyone

over pics of people's zits or milia.
And I know what styes are, that wasn't what I was referring to.
I wouldn't trust something that Vogue magazine wrote as gospel about skin care especially when its about makeup and not your skin.
Eve Lom as far as I know is a facialist and not a medical doctor.
Anecdotal 'evidence' to me from this book isn't really reliable either.
But yes to each their own opinion.