Beauty

[Snoopp]

I overheard a woman telling the stylist at a salon that hands are the first to show your age, even if your face looks younger.   I use a hand cream but I know I should use it more often than I do.  How do you all care for your hands?  Do you remember to use sunscreen on your hands daily?

[Another new name Sue]

I remember Joan Rivers demonstrating hand cream.  Her hands looked so nice.  She said dimethicone was the ingredient that was so helpful.

Yes, my hands look old.  Not age spots, they just have large blood vessels visible, and they look bony.  I don't think any lotion can help with that.  Yes, I do give a swish of sunscreen on the backs of my hands.  Hands really take a beating from th sun when driving. 

[just bee]

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@Snoopp wrote:

I overheard a woman telling the stylist at a salon that hands are the first to show your age, even if your face looks younger.   I use a hand cream but I know I should use it more often than I do.  How do you all care for your hands?  Do you remember to use sunscreen on your hands daily?

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Call me crazy, but I've always been partial to the look of "old" hands.  I studied hands and tried to draw them a zillion years ago as an Art minor: I'm no da Vinci.  And it's good that I appreciate aging hands because, at 56, my hands look ancient!  I live in the high desert, I work as a nurse, I have hand lotion all over the house and I never use it.  Don't wear sunscreen, don't wear gloves when it's cold.  Don't protect my hands when I clean or dig in dirt, and I probably don't drink enough water because I can grab the back of my hand and there's significant tenting.  I know lotion helps, but I just forget to use it.

If you use face products like creams, scrubs and peels, don't hesitate to use them on your hands.  I don't use hand soap at home: I've replaced it with all the shower gels I've collected over the years.  I guess I should pay more attention, but I just tend to use my hands a lot.  They look it!

[151949]

I was a critical care nurse for 42 years. All those years of washing my hands dozens of times a day with antiseptic soaps has really taken a toll. I am 66 but my hands look 90. Now I am retired I do keep lotion on them but it is too little too late I'm afraid. The skin on my hands is paper thin too because I use an inhaled prednisone for my asthma and that is a side effect of prednisone - very thin skin , esp. on the hands.

[colliegirls]

My hands look good, and that is with living for years in Florida and without sunscreen or too many lotions on them.  I hate any lotions on my hands!!

[Chisos]

My hands & my neck look old. Much older than my face. I have always taken care of my hands & neck but they did not age as well as my face.

[Sweetbay magnolia]

I don't consider them "old".  I consider them capable and strong.  They've seen alot of use and with luck will continue to do so, but to me it's a reflection of my life.  It's OK.

I do use hand cream when they're really dry, but I've never been into manicures.

@just bee, I've known others to feel the same about hands.  Interesting.  Sometimes a hand shake tells me alot about someone.

[GCR18]

Yes, they look old.  I don't take good care of them by wearing gloves when I should or creaming them.

[Peaches McPhee]

I admit that the age my hands appear is very far down my list of things to think about. 

[jlkz]

Never considered hands as indicators of aging.  Never used sunscreen on them and have started (at 70) to use hand lotion when done my makeup routine.  Excess gets run bed on heel backs (use Emjoi frequently to smoothe them).

For me, I concentrate on the eyes.  A long, multifaceted career has taught me that is where the truth resides.  Pain, joy, deceit, spirit, love, anxiety.....it is all there for reading and responding to.  

Age is a mere number: you or parts of your body can look older or younger than that number.  Yes, I am "lucky" that I have been told repeatedly by young and same-aged that I look nowhere near my age (mid-50's is the going number).

Aging is a condition;  the real story is YOU...what are you saying verbally or non-verbally?   Who is the focus during your interactions with others?  If it is your "old" hands, then that is what their focus will be.  You will be more interesting if you make them the focus.     Somewhere along the line, you will forget the hands or whatever and enjoy the company of others.

Hope that helps.