Are Your Hands Aging You? Try These Rejuvenating Options
From raising children, working at a successful career, keeping your home beautiful, and enjoying hobbies, your hands do a lot. And you watch them do all of this and more all day long.
You may notice that your hands have started to show signs of age. And since they are always on display, you may wonder if there is anything you can do about it. Thankfully, there are actually many skincare and anti-aging treatments that can help improve the way your hands look.
Why Your Hands Look Old
Hands can age at a faster rate than other areas of the body. For one, they simply do a lot of work. All that wear and tear can have an impact. Furthermore, the skin on our hands, especially the backs of our hands, is relatively thin compared with other areas of the body. This delicate skin shows collagen loss more than in other places.
In addition, your hands are rarely covered up. This means they are exposed to the sun more than other parts of the body. Many people often neglect to protect their hands with sunscreen with the same diligence as you do your face.
The result? Hands show many signs of aging sooner than other places might, including:
- Volume loss
- Age/sun spots
- Wrinkles/creping
- Large, bulging veins
Helping Aging Hands
The sooner you think about your aging hands, the better you can treat them to avoid signs of aging in the future. If you already have hands that are aging you, there are treatments out there, too!
Sun Damage
Protect your hands from sun damage by using sunscreen every day. Just like you shouldn’t leave the house without sunscreen on your face, apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen whenever you are going to be outside. Apply generously, and re-apply often.
Volume Loss & Wrinkle Reduction
When hands get a sunken appearance, injectable treatments can add back lost volume. And you have choices. One option is liposuction with fat transfer. This two-for-one treatment utilized liposuction to remove unwanted fat from one area of the body and re-purpose it to remedy volume loss in another.
Dermal fillers are another option. That’s right, fillers are not just for pumping lips. They can be strategically placed along the back of the hands to plump the areas where volume has been lost and stimulate the body to produce more collagen in the area.
Hyperpigmentation
Whether you call them sun spots, age spots, or liver spots, they are all the same thing – discoloration caused by excess melanin in sun-damaged skin. Intense pulsed light and radiofrequency therapies are often used to remove hyperpigmentation and create even skin tone on the face. These skin resurfacing treatments can also be applied to other areas, including the hand.
Veins
Large, bulging veins are known as varicose veins. While these unsightly veins often appear in the legs, they can also show up in other parts of the body, such as the hands. Not only can they prematurely age you, but they can be painful and uncomfortable as well. Spider veins can also show up in different areas of the body. These smaller web-like veins can result from sun damage as well as a list of other causes.
Vein treatments are not limited to the legs. There are a variety of therapies available, and an experienced expert can determine which will work best for you.
Get Younger-Looking Hands Now
Your hands do so much for you, they deserve a little TLC. Do you want more youthful, smooth, and even skin on your hands? Connect with us today to see what treatments are best for you.
