On February 26, 1991, U.S. Patent No. 4,995,379 issued to Joan Brooks of New Orleans, Louisiana, on an Instant Face LIft:

As the ‘379 patent admits, the basic idea was old, being disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,782,372 and 4,239,037, but suffered from the unsettling defect of deforming the user’s face when he/she turned his/her head.