There’s a saying that if you want to know a person's age, look at their hands. As we age, our hands begin to tell on us. The skin thins and loses laxity, veins become prominent, “age spots” appear, the hands begin to feel and look rough, dry, crepey. There comes a time when most of us start taking care of our faces. We shield ourselves from the sun; excepting our hands. We wash, exfoliate, hydrate properly as well as receiving professional skin care treatments; excepting our hands. We drive cars and our hands are placed on the steering wheel, unprotected, while the windshield magnifies the sun’s rays on our unprotected hands. We wash dishes without wearing gloves, keeping the hands drenched in harsh alkaline dish-washing liquid stripping them of their natural protection and oil. Dish-washing liquids are not the only culprits. The majority of brand name bar and liquid soaps are very alkaline while the skin is slightly acidic. Each time we wash our hands in them we damage them. We garden, play golf and other sports, do housework with harsh chemicals; protecting everything but our hands.
To save your hands from revealing your exact age:
• Wear a high SPF sunscreen with UVB/UVA protection on the backs of your hands every day, even in winter and on cloudy days. And, renew the sunscreen every 2-hours
• Wear gloves every time you wash dishes, do housework, hand wash clothing, or garden.
• Use mild pH soap when washing your hands. It is the suds that clean and sanitize the hands not the “strength” of the soap.
• Before your hands completely dry, put lotion on them - every time! And, don’t keep your lotion in the car when it can turn rancid and the effectiveness of the chemical sunblocks will diminish.
• Wear gloves to protect from cold weather and the harsh sun.
• Get a hand treatment once a month that would include a good exfoliation, massage and masque to revitalize your hands and keep them supple. Most reputable estheticians can add a hand treatment to a facial. Or, many have offer a half-hour hand treatment that can be divine!

From candid snapshot of herself, Tamara saw that her skin had acquired fine lines and wrinkles and had become blotchy and pigmented. She did not look healthy or youthful. Despite paying attention to her general health and fitness, she had forgotten about her skin and those years of benign neglect had taken their toll. This former sun goddess began, for the first time, to get serious about her skin care. In time, she was able to transform her skin to its healthful and radiant condition. She felt that if she could do it, others could as well, and when the time came for a change of career, she began her formal study of skin care. A basic educational foundation was followed by more than 600 hours of specialized training, seminars and workshops with the most recognized institutions and instructors. Today, this former sun goddess has been named the “skin care goddess’ by her loyal clients. Tamara is a licensed esthetician, and operates Tamara’s Skin Care serving her neighbors in Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills, Orange and surrounding areas achieve and keep healthy youthful-looking skin.