The Dictator | Hi-tech face rollers, knitted boots: where to find them in Hong Kong

I can’t believe you wrote about jade face rollers and didn’t even touch on the higher-tech ones that anyone can use at home invented in, say, this century? Will you enlighten us now?
Electric Slide, Happy Valley

The Dictator rules: Oh, yeah? Perhaps you should be the one to enlighten me. Are you saying newfangled tools are always better? That would imply that you need to clutter your home with all sorts of contraptions, such as a shirt press, a trouser press and heaven knows what else to replace a good iron. Does a shoe-polishing machine do a better job than an experienced shoe shiner? Are massage chairs more effective than human hands? Does pressing a button on a coffeemaker give you a more delicious cup than an Italian at the helm of a traditional machine?

Barring occasional user error (yes, I’m looking at you), these are not superior. However, walking down the street every day, it’s evident that you people could use all the help you can get. NuFace’s “microcurrent” devices promise to reduce the appearance of wrinkles with a five-minute facelift, at least if you use it for five minutes a day over a period of time. Try the spring 2017 sets, which include complementary products such as the NuFace Trinity Define Your Beauty Collection (HK$2,790; Joyce Beauty); or the NuFace Mini Tone, Glow & Go Collection (HK$1,650). ReFa from Japan offers a range of microcurrent devices, from single-ended, platinum-coated tools to 24-carat gold-plated rollers (HK$1,480 to HK$11,800; PanaShop, 51 Wong Nai Chung Road, Happy Valley).

And if you’re as tech savvy as you say, then you will probably already have a sonic cleansing brush by Clarisonic (HK$1,400 and up; Lane Crawford).