To feel sad that my hands are turning into old lady hands?

[Squeegle]

Just that!
I never thought it would happen to me. I remember when I was little being amazed by my old lady neighbour as the skin on her hands didn’t move back when pinched.
And now it’s starting...
What can I do?

I'd get profhilo or restylane booster injected. I'm incredibly vain though!

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I'd get profhilo or restylane booster injected. I'm incredibly vain thou
What does that involve, is it expensive, painful and does it actually work?

OP - try pushing the skin on the inside of your elbows. That gets really interesting as you get older.

Although hand cream can help, the best solution as a pp said is to drink more water. Hydration from the inside is best. I'm 61 and mine were awful until last year when I decided to drink more water, many reasons why I did but it's made a huge difference to the skin on my hands

Count yourself lucky. I’ve had old lady hands since my late twenties. I take after my mother, I am now 50 but am still often asked for ID when buying alcohol. I often show my hands before showing my ID to demonstrate my age which often raises a laugh.

@meredintofpandiculation. I just did - it made me laugh - thank you

Beauty pie do an excellent retinol hand cream.

Get some cheap glycolic face pads, superdrug ones are good and use them on the back of your hands to keep brown spots and roughness away. Slather either either a thick hand cream or coconut oil and put a pair of cotton gloves (£ shop and savers chemist normally sell them, they do foot socks too) and leave them on overnight. If you use vit C serum always use on you hands at night too.

While it is expensive Body Shop Hemp hand cream is excellent. I wash my hands a lot at work and also use the hand gel which is drying. I keep a tube of hemp cream in my pocket to keep my hands smooth. It doesn't make them greasy so perfect for work.

Have recently thought the same about mine! Now carry hand cream in my bag and try to moisturise a couple of times a day.

@fikel I've never had them (though planning to in the near future) a relative is trained in aesthetics treatments and loves restylane boosters. I've seen posts in here re profhilo with people ravin about them, you look good without looking "done". Regarding costs - i don't think it's inexpensive so I suppose it's down to how much it bothers you?

I have Psoriatic Arthritis and my hands look about forty years older than me!

My fingers are all bent and clawed and I’ve got huge knuckles, it’s not s good look!

I'm not bothered about my old lady hands as they match my old lady rest of me.

Mine look fine to me but when DD videoed something with my hands in I was amazed just how old they looked. I was 54 at the time.

Whatever cream i'm using on my face i always put over the backs of my hands and have done for years. I'm lucky enough to have long slim hands and nice nails. It's not halted time but it stops age spots and wrinkly skin. The thin skin with darker veins look is marching my way tho.

I agree with the pp about getting more picky about coloured varnish. And nail length. I would wear any colour under the sun on my talons. Now they look better midway between short and long and french manicured at all times. Toes don't seem to age! I still wear bright colours on those nails

Ds1 took my hand to cross the road and said “your hands are just like Granny’s” and that was about 15 years ago.

I am 41 and was starting to age badly on my hands. Now I exfoliate with a hand scrub, then moisturise in the morning with Aveeno barrier cream, and try to drink more water and it has made a difference.

I have got hands like the bloody crypt keeper. I'm trying to get used to it. My neck mind, woke up one morning, bleurgh, gone. Just oddly textured wattle.

God, I noticeds my hands had started to look like old lady hands when I was 40! But good moisturiser is your friend.

My partner has old woman's hands. (She, an old woman, me an old man.) I love her hands; they are beautiful parts of a beautiful old woman.

This may be surprising to young people. It surprised me, I admit. Growing up old is full of such nice surprises.

That's lovely 9toenails :)

Use E45 wash on them last thing at night. Then baby oil. Then go to bed. Atrixo handcream after every contact with water. I'm 52 & my hands have no age spots or wrinkles. Ive used a mix of E45 wash & baby oil in every bath ever since I can remember & my skins is great. (I never wanted to end up with my mother's neglected, red, very dry skin).

It's awful the way "old lady" is used in such a derogatory way on this site. No wonder we fear ageing when we know we will be viewed with such revulsion.

I was transfixed by her old hands. Transparent skin, liver spots and massive, protruding veins