So THAT'S Why Your Hands Give Away Your Age More Than Other Body Parts

On the TV series ” Younger ,” Sutton Foster ’s character, Liza, poses as a millennial when she tries to reenter the publishing industry as a 40-something mom. But Liza’s secret almost gets outed in Season 1 because of her hands. “Be careful with your hands, sweetie. They’re a dead giveaway,” a tipsy author played by Jane Krakowski tells Liza.

Her drunken musings might be right.

“It’s thin skin, so it gets worked,” Seattle-based dermatologist Dr. Heather Rogers told HuffPost. “A little bit of skin elasticity is a good thing for your hands, but then that means they have a little bit of excess wrinkles. The thin skin makes it so it’s more likely to be crepey in appearance.”

And it turns out that some skin types show aging more than others.

“If you are a pale Caucasian woman, you’re going to have crepey, wrinkly hands ,” Rogers said. “That’s just a group that has thinner skin. Oftentimes, Mediterranean skin, they are more apt to have brown spots. If you have pigment, you’re good at making pigment. And then darker skin ages much, much less quickly, but it can be dry, ashy [and have] dermatitis.”

Dr. Angela Lamb, a dermatologist and the director of the Westside Mount Sinai Dermatology Faculty Practice in New York, noted that anyone with collagen disorders like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome may be more prone to aging on the hands, as well as anyone taking blood thinners. “If you’re on blood thinners and your skin tends to bruise easily, and if you have more bruises, it might make your hands and arms look older,” Lamb said.

Age, of course, is an important factor. Rogers said aging hands are mostly a concern for women over 50. “In the late 50s, 60s, the loss of estrogen and thinning of our skin [cause people to] get pretty bummed