Although it looks as though stretching the skin back during the face lift could have helped significantly with the wrinkles, it really doesn't.  The lift repositions the skin, but it doesn't maintain tightness in the surface of the skin.  We don't even want it to; that would leave the patient with a pulled, unnatural look.  I like the face lift to just remove the excess, and if there are wrinkles to address, we leave that to the peel.