A method for generating directional skin tightening, including: providing at least one alignment indication of at least one energy-emitting transducer; aligning at least one energy-emitting transducer on a surface of a skin according to the at least one alignment indication; applying energy by the at least one aligned energy-emitting transducer; generating directional skin tightening, by forming elongated spaced-apart thermal damage lesions in deep tissue layers of the skin arranged according to the alignment of said at least one energy-emitting transducer.