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Toronto hotspot for all the beautiful people
Aug 31, 2007
Rita Zekas
Living Reporter
TheStar.com

The Toronto International Film Festival unspools on Thursday and everyone, especially celebs, wants to put his/her best fest face forward.

Dermatologist Dr. Lisa Kellett does some of the celeb tweaking at DLK on Avenue, a dermatology and cosmetic laser surgery clinic, at 108 Avenue Rd., former location of Mira Linder Spa.

Kellett has been fielding appointments for months. In fact, DLK is having Botox Saturdays during the festival.

"Celebrities will want to come in and freshen up," she says. Results of Botox take 3 to 7 days so the initial procedure is not done the day of.

Kellett has a celeb clientele who has been known to come, via Buttonville Airport, just for the day. They use a back door. She has a private deck for VIPs.

She won't drop any boldface names but gets referrals from satisfied customers in Hollywood, clients who don't want surgery. Her work is non-surgical; nothing is left on the cutting room floor. She does, however, do some mopping up.

"Lips should look like they belong on your face and not something you see in a magazine," she says.

Kellett is expecting to see some familiar faces, actors she has worked on while they have been filming in Toronto. They inevitably return to see her when they are back promoting the film and during the film festival. They could be requesting a microdermabrasion facial, a superficial diamond peel that exfoliates and requires no down time.

"There is no redness after 20 minutes," Kellett swears. "It really brightens up the skin."

Another quick fix is a ruby laser treatment on brown spots on the neck, chest or hands. Kellett will also do a lot of acne treatments for those flare-ups before the film premiere caused by stress, jet lag or just plain partying.

And celebs could always book a trial session of UltraShape, the first non-surgical body contour treatment (i.e. surgery-free liposuction) not yet available in Los Angeles. Each session promises a reduction of between 3 and 7 centimetres, and three monthly sessions are recommended at $1,000 per.

"It liquefies fat," she explains. "You focus the ultrasound to blast the fat, like kidney stones are blasted out."

Where does the fat go?

"It is released to the liver, where it breaks down and is released to the blood stream."

"The weight stays the same but the measurements are smaller," says Kellett. "The results are permanent as long as the client doesn't gain weight."

That's where personal chefs and trainers come in.

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