It can be a sad state of affairs when our hands start looking older than are. This is not neccessary! Our hands are exposed to everything far more often than our face. They are used for tools, have the nails bit off, and washed and dried out constantly.
We just need to take better care of them and they will pro-youthify themselves with a little help from their owners!
I do not care for the word aging, or anti age or any other negative way you can hear when someone discusses aging. It is actually a beautiful process that we do not have to fight so hard, but enjoy the process along the way and if there is something we can do to have our skin and bodies keep up with or youthful minds, I say, " let's do it!"
It has taken me several months to test and experiment with different ways I could make my hands easier to look at.
Here is what they looked like before:
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| BEFORE |
I had so many ideas from people and I took a little from each person and created a regime that actually worked for me. Once I had been on my custom regime for 3 months, I really started to notice a huge difference and my next project will be to remove the lingering age spots.
Here is what they looked like after the 3 months:
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| AFTER |
Not too bad, right?
So, first key. Treat your hands with as much attention as your face,neck, and chest and take good care of them. They take a beating from us.
I got Retin-A from my doctor and some glycolic online. I like the Glytone brand. I will list it below. As far as retin-a, many drugstores creams use a very powerful derivitate of Vitamin A and it is powerful and almost as good as the prescription, Especially if you are not used to using, it, is better to build up to the prescription Reitn-a anyway by using its least powerful form-Retinol.
What I do is alternate one night with the Glytone and then one night of the retin-a or retinol. A great drugstore brand is this one:
The combination of these items will work on smoothing fine lines, even tone and texture, and removing old skin so the new skin can come to the top revealing new and healthy skin.
I also added some fantastic Collagen plus C vitamins that work on strengthening the collagen and elastin in your skin making not only more firmer, but dewy and smooth as well.
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The final 'skin' supplement I added was the good old Neocell Hyaluronic Acid pills which I know I sound like a broken record, but it is because they work. They plump out lines and creases on your face or anywhere else due to their ability to hold water in your skin, not your body. It moisturizes you from the inside out. If I skip it for a while, I feel my face starting to show deeper lines and my hands not looking as fresh. It works that well guys! You can also get this on iherb.com. Both of them will total will under $40 and that is not even including the coupon in this blog you can use.
Last thing I tried and I got wonderful quick results with was b-12. Now,not all of you may be deficient in b-12. I was. The sublinguals from Trader Joes are inexpensive and work very well for someone who is not as deficient as I was. I recommend them! I finally had to go with actual b-12 injections to get me up where I need to be and one week later the veins in my hands flattened out. I was happily surprised! What I have been able to gather is that b-12 helps in the creation of red blood cells and they deliver oxygen to the cells throughout our body. It seems because of my deficiency this was not happening and my veins were popping out everywhere, Not anymore!
**Even if you do not need b-12 for a deficiency, I highly recommend it to keep your metabolism stable**
I hope you enjoy Pro-Youthifying Your Hands!
Love,
Rae
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