The Ponytail Lift Is Revolutionizing Traditional Plastic Surgery. Or Is It?

glamour.com:

By Ask any Instagram baddie: In this economy, staying snatched is a full-time job. Perhaps that's why, 20 years into the dermal filler boom, a controversial new-wave facelift is gaining traction with people who’ve grown weary of endless .” Trademarked by , the Ponytail Lift is an endoscopic plastic surgery procedure designed to beautify faces of all ages with minimal downtime and no visible scarring.

Unlike traditional facelifts, which can leave behind tell-tale plastic surgery scars in front of the ears and require serious recovery time, the Ponytail Lift hides a handful of tiny incisions behind the ears and hairline.

Once healed, they more or less vanish, allowing the majority of clients to emerge “restaurant-ready” in less than a month.The procedure is a hat trick of surgical adjustments that enable Kao to vertically reposition the face from top to bottom using a fiber-optic endoscope: a miniature camera attached to the tip of a long, thin tube.

By inserting this tube through a small opening in the skin, the surgeon can use it like a pair of binoculars to peer inside the body without having to open it up with longer incisions.