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winterize your hands

My hands are hating this weather. They go from being nestled in warm, toasty gloves to being thrust out into the bitter cold, every time my touch screen phone rings.  (Yes, apparently gloves and touch screens aren’t compatible, Steve Jobs.)

And if we don’t want to end up with granny hands, we’d best not abuse our little friends. They dial phones for us, type emails for us, open jars for us and, perhaps most importantly, get money out of  ATM machines for us.  They’re like our own little, personal assistants.

And we’re like Meryl Streep's character in The Devil Wears Prada.  

Since Hallmark hasn’t yet created a category of cards for apologizing to our hands (although, knowing them, I’m sure they’re working on it), I’ve got the perfect way to make it up to them. A luscious body scrub created by celebrity manicurist, Nettie Davis. 

When Nettie started mixing up her own, all natural scrubs for her clients, the response was overwhelming.  And before she knew it, she was the proud proprietor of NettieScrub™. 

I tried the NettieScrub Grapefruit Body Buff. It's made from sugar, grape seed oil and pure essential oils. It's for all over body use, but I especially love using it on my hands this time of year.  It exfoliates really well, smells like sunshine, helps repair cuticles, makes nails look like you just applied clear polish, and leaves hands moisturized and silky smooth.  After using it, I kept staring at my hands, because they were so smooth and radiant, they looked like they belonged to a wax figure version of me.

Treat your hands well and they won’t make you look like an octogenarian. 
I think that's fair. Don't you?

don't forget your cuticles

I discovered this Sephora Cuticle Care Pen in one of those ever-so-subtle bins next to the checkout line. The ones so close to the line that unless your hands are in your pockets they have nowhere else to rest but in the bin.

"Oh, what’s that product in the bin?  It looks like a human hand.  Maybe it’s designed to help apply make-up.  Well, isn’t that clever.  Oh, wait.  That’s my hand in the bin and it’s picking up the Sephora Cuticle Care Pen.”   Yes, that’s how I ended up the involuntary, proud owner of this product.

You just twist the bottom and essential oils and some vitamin-rich nutrients squish out onto the tiny brush.  Then you paint your cuticles with it.  Your cuticles will look hand supermodel worthy (are there hand supermodels?) in literally 2 seconds.

Thanks to this cuticle pen, I no longer look like I wash dishes to earn money to buy rocks to scrape against my cuticles.   

They have every other reality show.  Why not America's Next Top Hand Model?

I already have the "you're out of here" catch-phrase.  "Wave goodbye now".