Beauty tip: Face slapping?

Give it a try! Pay a lot of money for someone to slap your face, breasts or behind.

Khemmikka Na Songkhla's government-approved alternative beauty techniques include "breast-slapping" to enhance breast size and "buttock-slapping" to firm up the rear. After almost two decades of dishing out slaps in the name of image improvement, the techniques of the 44-year-old beautician better known as "Khunying Tobnom" are as popular as ever. Video by Jetjaras Na Ranong.

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A new beauty salon open in San Francisco features "the ancient Thai art of face slapping," which claims to reduce wrinkles and firm the face for $350. As AP's Haven Daley reports, dermatologists are skeptical of those claims.