You’ve built a routine around your face. Sunscreen, retinol, a serum you finally settled on. Then you glance down at your hands and see a different story: thinner skin, dark spots, prominent veins, lines that weren’t there a year ago.
Hands often show age before the face does. The same treatments that keep facial skin looking rested and even-toned work on hands too, and most take less time than a lunch break.
Why your hands age faster than the rest of you
The skin on the back of your hands is thinner than facial skin to begin with. It has less fat and fewer oil glands, so it dries out faster and loses volume sooner. Add years of sun exposure while your face was getting all the SPF attention, and you get the classic signs of aging hands: brown or “age” spots, crepey texture, visible tendons, and veins that look more prominent than they used to.
None of this has to stay the way it is. Your skin still rebuilds collagen and evens pigment on its own. It just needs a reason to do it faster.
Treatments we use for hand rejuvenation
At Radiance, we take the same benefits-first, no-pressure approach to hands that we do everywhere else. Your provider talks through what you’re seeing, what’s realistic, and what the smallest effective plan looks like. There’s rarely a reason to do everything at once.
Microneedling for texture and tone
Microneedling is often the entry point. Tiny controlled micro-channels signal your skin to produce fresh collagen and elastin (the proteins that keep skin firm and bouncy) over the following weeks. You’ll notice smoother texture and softer lines within a month, with fuller results building over a series of 3 to 4 sessions spaced 4 weeks apart.
No heat, no lasers, no risk of heat-induced pigmentation changes, which makes it one of the safest options across every skin tone. It also helps with pigmentation issues, so if your hands are showing both texture and age spots, microneedling does double duty.
By the way: our microneedling treatment covers face, hands, neck, and chest in the same session. If your décolletage and hands are telling the same story your face is, we can treat them together.
Downtime: mild pinkness for 24 hours. That’s it.
IPL for age spots and pigmentation
If dark spots are the thing bothering you most, IPL photofacial is usually the fastest way to see change. Broadband light passes through the surface of your skin and targets the extra pigment in age spots. Over the next 1 to 2 weeks, the spots darken, then flake away as your skin sheds them.
One session is often enough for scattered spots. Deeper or more numerous ones may need 2 to 3 sessions, spaced 4 weeks apart. Keep hands out of direct sun and skip retinol for about 5 days afterward.
One important note: IPL works by targeting pigment, which means it’s not the right fit for every skin tone. On deeper skin tones (roughly Fitzpatrick IV and above), the light can affect surrounding pigment along with the age spots and cause discoloration. If IPL isn’t a match for your skin, a microneedling series is a safe alternative that improves texture and evens tone without any heat or light. Your provider will assess this at your consultation and steer you toward the right option — we won’t run IPL on skin where it doesn’t belong.
A note on volume loss
If what’s bothering you most is structural — prominent tendons and veins, skin that looks papery — you’ve probably read that dermal filler can plump the back of the hand. We don’t offer filler for hands at Radiance. It’s a treatment we’ve made a deliberate choice not to add to our menu.
What we can do is support your skin’s own collagen response with a microneedling series, which thickens the dermis over time and softens the appearance of veins and tendons as the surface gets fuller. It’s a slower path than filler, and it won’t replicate the immediate cushion filler provides, but it’s a real option that works with what your skin already does. Your provider will give you an honest read at your consultation on how much difference microneedling can realistically make for what you’re seeing.
What hand rejuvenation costs
Pricing depends on what’s actually going on with your hands and which combination of treatments makes sense for you. Rather than quote a range that might not apply, we’d rather sit down with you at a complimentary consultation and walk through real numbers for a plan built around what you need. Financing through Cherry is available if it helps.
What you can do between visits
In-office treatments do the structural work. Daily habits protect the results:
- Broad-spectrum SPF 30+ every morning, on your hands after you moisturize.
- Whatever anti-aging serum you use on your face — vitamin C, retinol, peptides — belongs on the backs of your hands too. Same skin, same benefits.
- Hand cream at night, with ceramides or glycerin if you can find one.
Ready to see what’s possible?
If you’ve been noticing your hands and wondering what actually helps, come in for a complimentary consultation. You’ll sit down with the provider who would perform the treatment, not a coordinator, and get an honest read on what would make the most difference for you. No pressure, no obligation, no scripted upsell.