The appearance on your face of the first marks of time is never pleasant, and you may be tempted to make them disappear through radical or irreversible techniques.

But do you truly believe that those two small vertical wrinkles that appear when you frown, or those two folds that sometimes form at the corner of your lips, are enough to alter the beauty, balance and softness of your face? Do you not think, rather, that your face is a harmonious whole that deserves to be respected, improved where possible, while — above all — being well preserved?

In this book, Dr Trokiner insists on the importance of learning to accept these lines that draw an image belonging to you alone, explains what wrinkles reveal about your personality, and then describes the natural methods — acupuncture facelift, digitopuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, self-massage, appropriate diet — that will help you preserve your face for as long as possible.

Rather than the unattainable ideal of "staying young", he offers you a walk along the paths of "ageing well", favouring prevention of skin slackening over a determination to erase at all costs the wrinkles that tell the story of a face and give it its personality.