It’s all in the hands
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WebMD reports:
If your face looks younger than your years but your hands aren’t keeping up, there’s help.
If you’ve got the funds, plastic surgeons have a host of solutions to make your hands look young again — or at least be a closer match to your face.
“The best place to guess someone’s age is their hands,” says Danny Vleggaar, MD, a physician at Clinique Vert Pre in Geneva, Switzerland, and part of a panel of plastic surgeons discussing new options for rejuvenating aging hands at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in San Diego.
Pigment changes, age spots, texture changes, loss of fat, contour changes, and prominent veins all contribute to make the hands look older, Vleggaar and his colleagues say.
To turn back the clock, plastic surgeons are offering topical treatments, lasers, and soft tissue fillers, the same ones that refresh the face.
Whatever will they think of next? Mind you, revitalizing aging hands does come at a price — of around $3,000-$5,000 for all the procedures. So next time you see someone looking way too young for their age, try taking a peek at their hands!
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May 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
just goes to show that the creams which women apply to the faces to make them look younger don’t work…
if they did, then wouldn’t the hands look young too?
heard the joke about the women who kept applying “slimming gel” on their tummies, thighs and butts?
after a few months, their hands became smaller!