What you’ve got going for you: You know who you are and you very likely love or at least accept yourself now. You put up with very little foolishness but probably have compassion for others’ foolishness.

What you may not be enjoying: Crepey skin, your eyes may look smaller or sunken, brows may be drooping. More prominent “necklace” lines on the neck. Jowls. Marionette lines that join with nasolabial lines, maybe a lot of lip lines above and below the lips, corners of mouth turned down, “liver spots” or age spots. May have stress from taking care of everyone or a spouse who’s taken a turn for the worse, sluggish digestion or constipation, deeper forehead wrinkles.

How I can help: Hello, Gen X and Baby Boomers! I know you have realistic expectations that correspond to your decade of life, but I hope to surpass them. My oldest cosmetic acupuncture patient was 80 (and a smoker!) at the time I treated her, and she got some pretty remarkable results.

We will be best served if we combine/alternate microneedling with cosmetic acupuncture for natural facial rejuvenation. Here’s why:

• Microneedling induces collagen production so it builds the scaffolding that holds everything up. All of the muscles in the body are attached on both ends to bones. The muscles in the face are attached on one end to the underside of your SKIN. So we use microneedling to thicken and strengthen that skin, while we use Cosmetic Acupuncture to work on the muscles and general blood flow. Microneedling also helps break up melanin in age spots and plumps up the skin overall. Gives a nice glow, too! Microneedling can help with deep acne scars, hyperpigmentation, texture irregularities, and large pores.

• Cosmetic Acupuncture uses points all over the face to LIFT things back to where they were, like cheeks and eyebrows. It does the deep work even though the needles are not deep. It also allows me to target very specific lines and wrinkles to plump them up by needling the wrinkle directly.

• Systemic constitutional body points are used for addressing the deeper effects of aging. We may have herbal recommendations but definitely lifestyle changes and dietary therapy. Combatting inner and outer Dryness is the name of the game, as is moving the Blood and improving circulation all over. We will also talk about you doing gua sha on yourself so you can treat yourself for free for as long as you’d like.

• Anxiety, constipation, sluggish digestion, and insomnia can all be helped by the body points we use within the Cosmetic Acupuncture treatment.