The golden rules for healthy nails when you're over 40

telegraph.co.uk:

Nailed it, Marian Newman. “I’m seeing women in their 50s and 60s who are wearing their nails long again – the lockdowns enforced a period of self-care that has continued,” she explains.

The truth is that as we age our hands cop most of the damage. Perennially exposed to ageing UV light and often neglected, age spots and wrinkles are a given.

I’m the first to admit that I rarely remember to smear SPF on to my hands despite them being riddled with sun damage and displaying a texture not dissimilar to puff pastry, as my teenage daughter has often joked.There are a few treatments that can help.

For dryness, the collagen-inducing hyaluronic acid injection, Profhilo, helps to plump up thin skin on hands, and it’s possible to get some improvement in the tone of the skin with diligent creaming.