Beaut.ie Confessions: Do I Use Handcream? Um, well ...

I had to laugh at last week's Afternoon Show starring our very own Aphrodite. Not at her bit, you understand, but when Image beauty ed Liz Dwyer proclaimed in a no-nonsense fashion that she wasn't generally bothered with hand cream,  it rang about 90 bells with me. Liz is great - totally no nonsense and very knowledgeable, she really does say it as she sees it.

While I like getting hand cream samples in the post, I love trying them out and I definitely like writing about the stuff, I'm not so good on the follow-through. A check on my bedside table reveals a towering pile of books and four hand creams from Bliss, Nivea plus two newbies from Guerlain and Sisley. None is very well used ...

My intention is to slap the stuff on before I go to sleep. I'd say I remember about once a fortnight, and I'm just not one of these people who keeps a tube on her desk in the office either. I don't particularly care for the feeling immediately afterwards and don't fancy a keyboard choked up with product to boot.

I, like Liz, work on the premise that my face cream will do the business - I mix whatever I'm applying to my face between my palms and then smooth it on using the flat of my hands. Then I rub 'em together, so they do get some love. Not enough, though - my paws are dry, my cuticles are in tatters and my nails are very prone to splitting and peeling.

If I could force myself to remember to apply pre-bed, I'd be on to a winner - and I'm guessing I'm not the only one with an under-used stash, too. Rate your faves and tell us your hand cream habits in a comment!