I’ve never had supermodel legs, but in my 30s and 40s, I started noticing thin, squiggly blue and purple veins mostly below my knees and around my calves. I had one slightly bulging blue vein on ...

Aside from the "purple snake" effect, varicose veins can cramp or throb at night. So much blood pools into the legs, that it can cause the legs to feel heavy and leaden. If clear fluid from the ...

There’s a common belief that crossing your legs can lead to varicose veins: the enlarged, blue or purple veins that often develop just below the skin in our legs. Varicose veins are caused by ...

But with venous insufficiency, the veins of the legs might not work as they should ... The first sign of a venous skin ulcer is skin that turns dark red or purple over the area where the blood is ...

Spider veins refer to small red, blue, or purple lines below the skin’s surface. These lines indicate broken veins, which can develop anywhere on the body, including the face. A bulging vein ...

Spider veins, also known as telangiectasias or thread veins, resemble spider webs or tree branches. They occur when damage to blood vessels close to the skin's surface causes them to widen.