The REAL 50ish group...Sept 15 week

My hands look a little older. There are some wrinkles now that I probably started noticing a couple years ago. No spots. I don't really think they look that old. I wear gloves to clean and wash dishes most of the time and use Palmolive dish detergent. "Madge" was right, it really is good for the hands. Use Bath and Body Works hand cream at night. I've never been a sun worshipper except at the beach and then I"m slathered in sunscreen. I also think my hands have stayed young because I'm allergic to housework.

Mine definitely started to look old in the last 3 years or so. I can see the beginnings of arthritis in my knuckles, though I doubt anyone else would notice at this point. I have some spots, but not too many yet. When my weight is down, they look all wiry with tendons and veins (they were not like that when I was young!) - they look much better when I'm overweight.

I definitely notice it. Both the spots and the scaly, dry skin. I rub the last of my spf moisturizer into the backs of my hands in the morning after applying to my face, and I keep hand cream (love B&BW limoncello) in my bag and apply it whenever I think about it.

It’s not only my hands, though - I am fair skinned, and what used to be called freckles on my arms, chest and upper back now look alarmingly like age spots. And the skin on my chest has developed a very un-youthful quality. Ick. It’s especially frustrating because I’ve been so careful about sun exposure for the last couple of decades. Apparently not careful enough, or else I’m paying for the sunburns of my youth.

Count me in on that! 30 years of nursing I couldn't even begin to imagine how often I've washed my hands, and now the last few years, using alcohol to sanitize them countless times per shift, so they get quite dry from that.

However I'm pretty good at putting sunscreen on my hands almost every day so there isn't much sun damage.

I'm currently using CeraVe therapeutic hand cream and really like it, it's made my hands feel really soft.

I'm just really noticing it lately, I've lost a bit of weight and my already skinny hands are showing it. I don't have any age spots as yet.

My daughter says that about my hands, but I am in denial. 

I just had a few “age spots” frozen off me, one on back and one on side of breast. How long until they fall off now? 

As I sat with my mama at a doctor's appointment about two years ago (she's 94 now; I'm 58), I commented that my hands were starting to look old like hers. She laughed and said I'd always had old hands. And she's not wrong. My hands have generally looked older than the rest of me for most of my life. Oh, well.

My hands actually look quite young, with no age spots or crepe skin. The veins are slightly bulging, otherwise, they are quite youthful looking.

My hands look like they always have at this point, with the exception of a small bump that has developed on the top knuckle of my left index finger. Both my grandmother and mother had/have large, lumpy knuckles from arthritis, with pain and difficulty in maintaining full movement. It started in their 30’s, so noticing a possible and minimal arthritic joint at 48, I’m feeling pretty ok about it.

Mine started around 50 and now at 60 I do have a couple of light age spots. It also doesn't help that mine are very skinny and my veins are huge. I do keep them moisturized.

I started really disliking my hands about 7 or so years ago (I'm 58). I'm a freckle faced, fair skinned, red head. We belonged to a swim club when I was growing up and I was a water baby at the pool, the lake, on vacations until I was probably 20 or so. Massive, awful sunburns that blistered terribly. I've had all 3 skin cancers (including on my hands) and have pre-cancerous stuff removed at the derm almost every year I go in for a check.

Anyhow, I don't mistreat my hands. They get suncreen when I get out of the shower, and get a nice thick cream at bedtime. The wrinkles tick me off. I know I could get rid of most of the discoloration with IPL, and I really should do it simply for vanity's sake. I haven't read the thread yet but I'll be curious if anyone has suggestions for wrinkles and dryness.

Honestly I noticed it in my 40's and now it's crazy they look horrible and much older than my 52 years. My neck looks old to and I have a lot of spots on my chest from wearing v-necks or at least that's what I'm blaming. I am fair and burn easily.

I’m almost 45 and I looked down at my hands the other day and noticed I now have my mom’s hands. I should have been better about using SPF on them.