Injecting your hands to make them smooth sounds a bit scary, right?

But as we all know, your hands are a major give-away to your age. 

Just look at  Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker, two youthful-looking women… until you see their hands. 

Ninety percent of skin aging indicators – sun spots, laxity, wrinkles – come from unprotected exposure to ultraviolet light. 

And while most of us focus on protecting the skin on our faces from aging, our hands are also majorly at risk. 

It's not just during summer that the sun hits us; consider hands on the steering wheel while driving – they are exposed all year round. 

The best way to keep your hands safe?  Treat them as an extension to your face by protecting the skin with SPF 50 or higher each morning. 

But for those who have already damaged their hands from ultraviolet light, a new solution is in store… and it sounds a bit scary. 

Recently, Radiesse, the first and only FDA-approved product for hand augmentation, hit the market. 

Radiesse is calcium hydroxyapatite, a substance that is naturally found in human bones. This product fills and provides a scaffold to stimulate your own body's production of collagen. 

Injected under the skin on the back of the hands, the substance provides instant smoothing, plumping, volumising and disappearance of wrinkles for up to two years. 

The 'hand-lift' procedure only takes about 15 minutes and has been vetted as a safe practice, as it has been used for facial rejuvenation for many years. 

Turning back the hands of time has never been so easy…