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Nearly every actress in nearly every film has one sure-shot bedtime ritual: manically wringing and twisting her wrists in a bid to moisturise her hands. It’s a smart move, given that our hands are dishearteningly quick to age. And yet scaly palms that are dry to the touch and covered in peeling flesh have been a cosmetic casualty of constant sanitising in the time of Covid-19.
Coupled with unmanicured nails – as salon visits become less frequent – and the inexorable wrinkles that afflict the fingers and knuckles over time, hands have become a focal point of beauty concerns for women in 2020.