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Jet lag, wrinkles and needles, oh my!  BY VANESSA CRAFT

On a plane heading back to Toronto, jet lagged and exhausted, I wondered how I thought I could do a Las Vegas weekend and survive mentally and physically intact.  I dug out my compact with the aim of freshening up before unleashing my eye bags on the unsuspecting crowds at the arrivals lounge when they appeared, a horrifying presence in the clear, unforgiving, 30,000-feet-above-sea-level sunlight: wrinkles. 

My laugh lines looked… so very lined, and oh-my-gawd, was that the beginning of crow’s feet?  I thought what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas?

Since I had neither the budget nor the inclination for surgery, and prefer my botulism in a late night kebab rather than my forehead, I searched alternative beauty treatments and discovered Toronto’s best kept secret:  acupuncturist Daniel Kanner and his Cosmetic Facial Renewal miracle. 
Major benefits of the treatment are tightened pores, improved collagen production and muscle tone, elimination of fine lines, wrinkles, eye bags and acne as well as double chin reduction and an improved metabolism.  However, it requires a few needles in your face. There’s always a catch.

I met Daniel at the Body Clinic in the exclusive Yorkville area of the city.  “Acupuncture isn’t going to make someone who’s fifty look twenty,” he says, “but generally it can knock five to fifteen years off a person’s face.”

Like magic, my apprehension disappeared as I began planning my new life as a high school freshman…

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