Is there anything I can do to improve my "hag hands"?

[BelleDameSansMerci]

That's it really... I am getting on a bit but, I hope, wearing quite well apart from my hands. They're such a give away. It's not the skin so much as the ropey veins. Am I doomed to hag hands?

[apple99]

I have quite veiny, dry hands. I have found using a hand scrub (I like the crabtree and evelyn or boot's no 7 ones) and then a cuticle cream has vastly improved the condition.

[BelleDameSansMerci]

Thank you...

Just seen "Aveda Hand Relief" recommended on another thread too. Will try everything!

[Notwavingbutcrowning]

I feel your pain! Mine were haglike but I recently swapped to scholl dry skin cream (yes, supposed to be for feet...) and it has worked wonders. It contains urea which does the trick apparently and was only about £2-3 from supermarket. Can't do much about veins though afaik.

[CQrrrneee]

body shop hemp hand cream is very good

[bleedingheartlefty]

I have developed ropey veins too. Hideous and so haggish. My dominant hand is much worse than the other one. Hand cream helps the other aging signs, I have been using a Neutrogena one with soy, it's quite good. But veiny hands along with an increasingly scraggy neck are such a giveway, the rest of me looks pretty good. Dammit, I'm only 46.

I wonder if there is some miracle cure.

[CQrrrneee]

I've always had veiny hands. Madonna has them, so I don't think there can be a cure or else she'd have sorted them out!

[bleedingheartlefty]

CQ, how depressing, you're right.

[CQrrrneee]

I don't think other people notice though - I never look at other people's hands. I only know about Madonna's 'cos the media are always going on about them.

[ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie]

Other people deffo do notice because one of my pupils commented on mine the other day and said I looked like a body builder because of them!

Gives him a FAIL on his next essay - grrrr.

[CQrrrneee]

grrr - were they very small?

[Riveninside]

Urea? Like wee?

[ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie]

They? The pupil?

He is in year 10 and therefore Should Have Known Bloody Better!

[suzikettles]

I recently was given a lovely photo of me holding my newborn nephew. And then I saw my hands

Kate Moss's hands looked pretty ropey in her wedding photos. I guess it comes to us all.

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

Yes like wee! It is the stuff that is in Flexitol.

Belle I'm so glad you posted this, I looked down today and saw my mother's hands on the ends of my arms, most alarming!!

Burt's Bees do a good cuticle butter, which is excellent when I remember to use it.

I am struggling to find a really good cream though. Have tried Neutrogena, L'Occataine, Boots expert. Not impressed.

[BelleDameSansMerci]

Thank you all for posting - how rude of me to just disappear!

I'm going to give the Aveda stuff a go and will report back.

I do think mine are worse in the heat but I suppose it's obvious that they would be?