Turning back the ‘creepy old hands’ of time 2-25-08

New procedures plump up bony hands and zap age spots

For Susan Waitley, it was her “banana hands” that did it.

“You know how a banana starts to get spots as it gets older?” says the 62-year-old entrepreneur from San Diego. “I started to look at my hands the same way. I thought, ‘I look like an aging banana here.’”

So Waitley had her hands “done.” More specifically, her dermatologist used an IPL (or intense pulsed light) treatment known as PhotoFacial to zap away the age spots.

Jo Anne Wagner, 66, a hand model and commercial actress from Palm Beach, Fla., had a different problem. Instead of spots, her hands had a sunken-in hollow look. Her solution was to have her dermatologist plump them up with Restylane, an injectable cosmetic filler.

“We all worry about our faces, but your hands can give it away in two seconds,” says Wagner. “You put your hand up to your face and your face looks fine. But there’s a creepy old hand up there.”

Up until a few years ago, those hoping to hide their true age were forced to feint and dodge their way to a youthful facade with high-end manicures, fingerless gloves, and a collection of chunky distracting bracelets. But today, a raft of new hand rejuvenation procedures offer the cosmetically conscious a chance to turn back the hands of time.

“The newfound acceptance of non-invasive light devices and filler materials has remarkably changed the ‘face’ of hand rejuvenation,” says Dr. Ranella J. Hirsch, a cosmetic dermatologist in Cambridge, Mass., and president of the American Society of Cosmetic Dermatology and Aesthetic Surgery. “By using some of the newest technologies to restore lost volume and remove sun damage, we can reset the clock.”

In other words, these days the hands do lie.

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If you are looking to plump due to a lifetime of hard work, the above tips will really smooth and improve the elasticity of the hands. But if you must use an injectable filler Restylane is made of hyaluronic acid. In the human body, natural hyaluronic acid provides volume and fullness to the skin. So it is the safest prescription filler.