Madge takes to virtual beauty-hood?

The queen of pop has turned to computer wizardly to make her hands look as unwrinkled as a 20-year-old.

While most stars see their faces or figures airbrushed when they appear on the covers of magazines, the queen of pop Madonna, it seems has turned to computer wizardly to make her hands look as unwrinkled as a 20-year-old.

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Madonna’s unwrinkled hands can been seen in the new modelling assignment for Swedish fashion retailer, H & M's Autumn 2006 collection.

However, one expert thinks that the Confessions singer has gone a step further than just getting her hands airbrushed, and says that she’s borrowed a whole new pair from a woman half her age.

"Quite simply, these are someone else's hands. Madonna has always had quite veiny hands but there is not a line, wrinkle or vein in sight. While it is possible that they have been totally digitally re-touched - her natural skin colour being built up to effectively smooth down the veins - it is more likely that they actually belong to a woman in her twenties," the Daily Mail quoted Michelle Facey, from the David Martin photography studio in Liverpool, as saying.

"Alternatively, Madonna could have had hand fillers injected into the skin of her hands to give them a plumper, more youthful, appearance," Facey added.

And though Madonna’s extremely well toned body belies the fact that she is touching 50, plastic surgeon Alex Karidis said that hands were one of the parts which always betray a person's age.

"Babies have podgy hands. The skin and fat on the back of the hands is quite thick. As a person ages, that plumpness goes, making the hand look bonier and more veiny. Over time, since the hands are more exposed to the elements, they become weathered, wrinkly, less elastic and suffer from sunspots more than other parts of the body. So, in that sense, the hands betray one's true age," he said.