 Hi guys, it's Monica. I know you know that right because you're here watching but if you're new here you might not know So yes, it's Monica and if you are new here and you haven't subscribed Please consider hitting the subscribe tab below and the notification tab I would truly appreciate your support today. I'm going to talk about Anti-aging your hands using retina does a retina really work To anti-age. Is there such a thing as anti-aging your hands? Can you actually keep your hands young? I mean everyone always says your neck and your hands are the first thing that really age you I think your lips the wrinkles around your mouth and your neck. I think that's the first thing because people time to look At you when you're talking and then your hands. So Let me tell you my hand story Back in 2016 Early 2016 I had decided to change the setting to my wedding band And I had been shopping for a band at a jewelry store that had created my wedding band originally So this is someone that I know someone that I trust Explicitly and so I had been shopping with her I had given her a bunch of my little diamonds and I wanted her to put them in a band I wanted some of my I wanted my original stones. I didn't want to have a bunch of new stones So I had enough stones to be able to create the band. I wanted I took a photo of my ring And I sent it to my mom and I was like on cloud nine because it was just what I envisioned The the only thing that I don't have is the second band the third band I should say so when you look at this picture You'll see my ring that I wear all the time, but with two bands the one band I don't have on my finger. I'm going to stop wearing that but anyways long story shot So I was like super happy because I had I really liked the ring. I all my diamonds fit I didn't have to buy new diamonds, you know, they all worked really well in the band So I sent a photo to my mother So that she could see what the band looked like I'd sent it in a direct message on Facebook and she I'll never forget it I'll never forget it, but she sent me a message back and she said your ring is beautiful Too bad. It's on such old-looking hands. I didn't even know what to say because I never even noticed my hands I I just looked at my ring. I was just focusing on my ring It made me feel so self-conscious that for a while, you know When you get a new piece of jewelry, you like to you know, flash it. You like to go whatever, you know but so for a while I was like hiding my hands instead of flashing my hands because I Just I just remembered her words. It's too bad. It's on such old-looking hands And it was it hurt me, but it was also in my opinion the truth, you know My mother is my mother. Your mother loves you Unconditionally your mother is always at least mine is the first one to be brutally honest with you And she'll say it the way it is. She won't mince words. She won't sugarcoat She thinks I look fat. She tells me if she thinks my hair is a mess She tells me if she thinks I'm wearing too much makeup She tells me so my mother is brutally honest and when she said that about my old-looking Old-looking hands. I went holy macro so in early 2016 I Started to be very diligent about putting sunblock on my hands. I Really really I looked at this picture. I'm gonna insert it here. This is the picture I sent my mother my focus point at the time was my ring My mother's focus point at the time is my hands So I never thought I would ever be publishing that photo because it was so distressing to me to have my mother say My hands was so old and ugly looking in that sense or she didn't say ugly old-looking hands I say ugly. That's how I interpret the words So I never thought I'd publish it, but it serves as a good reminder because yeah This is what my hands are, you know, and they are old. I am 65 years old So from that point on I started to really be very diligent with Sunblock now every time I will I will admit that every time I put Anything on, you know, like Sunblock on my face I was just always do the the extra stuff, you know on my body I would just always put it on my hands, but it wasn't super super good with it I wasn't religious with it. So when my mother told me that I looked at my hands and I said Holy macro. I said, how do I? You know, how do I how do I show my ring? How do I feel comfortable with my hands if they look so old? So and they still look old. They're not they're not better, but the journey that I'm on Anti-aging my hands using retin A many of you have asked what am I doing? So in 2016 I started to take a plastic bag And I would take Nevea cream and I would put the Nevea Nevea cream Nevea cream all over my hands and I always got the one in the tube that my mother would get me actually from Germany I still use this to this day. This is the hand cream. I use to this day. It is very thick. It is very I'm gonna take a look at this white It's heavy in consistency But this is what I use to this day on my hands So anyways, I would put the cream on my hands at night and I would put my hands in plastic bag for a little bit Sometimes I would try to sleep with them, but it never really worked. I always ended up taking it off. I didn't like it so when I started to do the retin A I had bought the weakest retin A point zero point two five and I had bought a bottle of Kakao oil and What I was doing at that point in time is I would take my retin A and I would put a good glava Good glava a good drop now you can see how much I have here And then I would take my Kakao oil and I would mix it Into this I would do a drop or two and I would go up I'm putting this on my neck and I really shouldn't right now But I hate to waste it and I'm not going out, but I would go on my neck and down into my Declotage Declate and then of course I would go on the tops of my hands And that's what I would do So I started to do that in 2016 when I started my retin A with Kakao oil Retin A every day that I every night that I put it on my face to put it on my hands And I would do that and I would literally did that In Sunblock every single day, but I did that until I was reached I was actually hand MD had reached out to me to test their product And then I used the hand MD which has a retinol product and a cream on one side is the pump You put it, you know, it's one side whoops, I still have some in there. I'm surprised. Well, anyways, I was putting that on my hands and I did that I don't know the whole time until I thought it was empty and I didn't really notice any kind of dramatic Improvement, but I thought it was an unfair test in a way because I've been using the retin A and On my hands. I stopped when this was done. I stopped and I immediately went back to my retin A and Once if my first bottle I should say this once my first bottle of the Kakao oil ran out I bought rose hip seed oil first I bought it in TJ Maxx organic cold press rose hip seed oil and then I started to buy it from the ordinary I really like the a rose hip seed oil and for me anyways Now I know other people might say completely the opposite of what I'm gonna say But for me, I never noticed a difference between the rose hip seed oil in the Kakao the way I was using it mixed with my retin A on my neck and chest and hands I never saw any kind of a difference in it. So since the two products even though The people that love the Kakao will say it's better the people love the rose hip seed oil will say it's better I'm just gonna tell you I didn't see a difference between the two the only difference I ever saw between the two is the price So I continue to use the rose hip seed oil to this day is what I'm using on my neck on my chest on my hands Mixed with now. I don't have any more of the zero point two five percent So I am mixing it with the zero point zero five so I've gone up and I do that every night that I use the retin A which is about four sometimes five nights I also treat my neck my chest my hands my neck my chest my hands with a big drop after I've done my face I take my my zero point zero five put a big drop on here mix it with a couple of drops of The rose hip seed oil and we should all together and a massage my neck and my chest And then I do the tops of my hands really really good. So I really like that Then at one point at the end of the night. This is coming out This is the last thing I put on my hands at night And I put a I put it all over the place all over my hands nice thick coating I really like it. It doesn't smell. I grew up with it. So all my mother ever used so I grew up with it and Then I also have these I Ordered these not too long ago. So I've only been using this gosh a month But this is just a preventive. These are the driving the sunblock driving gloves because I figured this season I Am gonna be serious about trying to get rid of my age spot So I have a couple of age spots age spots that I have been working on I Also every now and then we'll use my hypoquinone on those spots But I'm very careful with that So I have a couple of age spots that I'm trying to work on for my hands So during the day when I'm driving especially in the summer, this is what I've been wearing These are actually normally in my car in my glove box. So when I get in I just put them on The other thing that I like for my hands Now I told you that I would stick my hands in baggies, which I did But I got this and I will try to link The company for you. I actually got this from Bolano Alonzo handbag company. I know I always put you that name too Anyways, I got this from them and this was in one of my bags And I got this right before we went to Vegas in March for our convention. It was in that pack I love these gloves. These are really really kind of funky. They're like these big mitts and Let me take one out. It's like really cool. They're really heavy. There's two of them in here They're really heavy. You put them on and You just sit for 20 minutes with these gloves on 20 minutes is all you really need You could do more if you want but 20 minutes and you can reuse these I think 250 times So and then when you're done, you just stick them back in the bag Excuse me when you're done, you just stick them back in the bag Steal it up and they're good to go. So since I got these I Don't use them that often. I want to say that maybe Once or twice a week is what I've been doing with these But they really really make your hands feel super super nice But and I know we're all different Between the retin-a the rose hip seed oil and this cream is really what makes my hands Super feel super good. And I think is what's helping my hands Kind of improve a little bit from the way they were when I sent that picture to my mom Also, the other thing is water water water if there's one secret that every single one of you can do And I know you probably I'll know this is a drink a ton of water The more hydrated you are the better your skin looks not only on your face and neck But in your hands so the more hydrated you are the better it looks. So anyways, that's my hand update I know many of you ask I get often get comments on my hands. I look at my hands and I see Ugly old hands ugly old hands and I hear my mother's voice in the back of my head Your ring is beautiful, but too bad. It's on such old-looking hands and and this was like 2016 so it wasn't all that long ago. I don't think my hands are dramatically improved I think they're better. I think the retin-a has helped them a little bit. I think the cream the water Being hydrated and most importantly the sunblock and now hopefully these sun gloves Will continue to help my hands Kind of slow down that aging process at 65. I don't expect them to be baby soft Or go back to looking like they did when I was young But I think there's an improvement and and these gloves I think Julie Mimosa had talked about this a linker channel again This is I had bought them when she talked about them and I used her her Amazon link So I'll give you that information But for cheap money can go a long way and your fingers come out So they're very they're very comfortable as far as driving They're also very easy to get on and off. I don't find them hot at all. They're not hot and sweaty They're kind of like, you know Cool-looking I think kind of stylish Stylin' anyways Yeah, that's my retin-a update for my hands anyways So do you think what do you guys do? How do you keep your hands young-looking? Are any of you using your retin-a and your cacay or your rose hip seed oil and again, whatever oil you use So whatever you do, I'm not gonna jump on the cacay versus rose hip seed oil bandwagon I just think you'd use whatever you can afford what works good And like I said for me, I didn't see any big difference. Nothing that justified the money for me anyway, so Yeah, so if you're if you're loving what you're doing, let me know I really really would like to Help my hands look better. So my mother never says those words to me again I'd like to get rid of those words. They still I Still hear them every time I look at my hands. I hear them So let me know you a secret so thanks so much for watching guys appreciate every single one of you And I will see you in my next video. Bye guys