Why do most women seem to have quite rough hands, while my girlfriend has super soft hands?

[Anonymous]

So in my relationship with casual female friends, we often high fived each other and such. And I was pretty surprised to find out that most women's hands aren't actually that soft. They feel about the same as a guy's. In fact, my hands are soft for a guy, and my hands are softer than theirs, and they noticed, and were like: "Omg, your hands are so soft! What do you do!" And I don't really do anything. All I do is wash them often.

But the exception to being a woman with rough hands is my girlfriend. Her hands are so nice and soft it's unbelievable. They're how I imagined the hands of a woman to feel like.

Her face, thighs, arms, back, etc are all just as soft and if not even softer. But I've never touched any of those areas in any other girl other than my girlfriend. So the hands is what I'm focusing on.

So what could separate her hands from that of other women? Does she do something special to take care of her skin, while as most other women just sort of let their skin do their own thing? Does she just have lucky genetics? Is it a combination of both? Or is there another reason?

Visually, my girlfriend's skin is a lot more pretty than that of most women. It's absolutely spotless, acne/freckle-free, and it even glows a bit. Her silky smooth face definitely sticks out from a crowd. So that's why I assumed what I did above. She also wears no makeup at all, never. I went to the beach with her, we jumped in the water and got ourselves all wet, and her skin didn't look any less clear, because she didn't even have any make-up on in the first place. So her skin is not prettier due to makeup, but naturally... either due to lucky genetics, really good care, or both.


And yeah... that's all I have to say really... just what do you think could be the reason for most women having such rough hands, and my girlfriend having super soft hands?

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of it has to do with their occupation. some people who work in offices for example will have smoother and softer hands than a construction workers say. And yes, differing care routines can contribute to girls having softer hands than others

[Sucram]

Maybe her hands are softer, but probably not super soft. When in love, we experience the skin of our SO as softer than it actually is. There is research about it.

[Asker]

I'm not the only one who says her hands are super soft, though... my friends who have my felt my hands before, and then felt hers, were like: "Your hands make his seem like rock, and they're already super soft!" Her own personal friends also have given her the nickname of "silky softness." And any random person who feels her hand in general often gets all excited/cheesy about how soft her hands are. So it's definitely not me.

That's still rather interesting, though. I've heard of it before.

[lilaqua]

Wonderful. This entire post seemed like a massive boast, served no purpose and I could see you gloating through the screen.

[Asker]

Wow... talk about being a rude and disrespectful little bitch.

That was not the point of this post AT ALL.

I was just generally curious about how a girl's hands could be so much softer than that of other girls.

I'm reporting you. Hopefully that'll teach you to be nicer :D

[Asker]

The sad thing about it is that you seem to have a reputation in this community, with a Xper level of 6, and a MHO of 21%... so maybe you're not a COMPLETE and total rude bitch, but in the case of this post you were unforgivably rude with me for no reason.

[lilaqua]

I'm not being rude, I'm telling how I feel. It seemed like a massive "my girlfriend is hotter than yours bye". You know the real reason. Your girlfriend was blessed with good skin. Look maybe I was a little rude, sorry about that. I've tried to remain as open and honest on here as possible, both to my advantage and detriment in certain situations I suppose. It could be lifestyle related as well. I paint, sew, play guitar, and do a lot with my hands, spending lengthy amounts of time moisturising isn't really possible on top of being gifted the worst skin imaginable.

[Asker]

Maybe you weren't being straight up "rude", as you didn't really straight up insult me or anything... but your overall tone was still aggressive, meaning you were being passive aggressive.

The intent of this point wasn't to brag AT ALL. I was literally just talking about a positive quality of hers, her skin.

Though I don't know the exact real reason, I have ideas. Either she was blessed with good genetics, like you said, or she is really into skin care, or maybe both.

Apology accepted, then :)

My girlfriend doesn't do THAT much with her hands, I guess. She likes to play soccer and volleyball, and to swim... but that doesn't require especial use of hands. So I guess it makes sense.

And yeah, time is a factor as well.