Pay R630 for a Dermo Roller from Trifecta Trading, valued at R1400 (save 55%)

Some super-powers are just more trouble than they’re worth. Super-Intelligence would turn you into the world’s smuggest smart person who never got invited to parties and Magnetism comes with the delightful possibility of turning into a pin-cushion. Similarly, travelling miles through traffic to a salon for a treatment that rids you of stress-induced wrinkles is like watering your garden in the rain; pointless. Leave the travelling for vacation-time and do-it-yourself with the Dermo Roller to remove wrinkles from Trifecta for R630.

If the human body wasn’t as inherently lazy as a particularly unmotivated college drop-out, no one would know what stretch-marks or scars were. Though the skin has the ability to heal itself perfectly, but instead, it metaphorically vegetates on the couch munching crisps and watching cheesy sitcoms.

The Dermo Roller gives your skin the figurative kick it needs to get off the couch and back to work. Using micro-needles to force the pores open, it tricks the skin into thinking it’s damaged – which triggers the healing process. While the body would usually do the bare minimum to ensure you stay healthy, frequent uses of the Dermo Roller force it to finish what it started, taking the slap-dash fix-up out of kindergarten and taking it to a Masters level in cosmetic healing.

This trickery is better than school-yard pranks circa primary school. Thinking that it’s injured, the skin releases collagen and elastin while attempting to heal itself. This smooths out wrinkles, increases elasticity which prevents wrinkles and generally improves the appearance of the skin. The Dermo Roller is effective on more than just stress-creases though – stretch-marks, scars and cellulite can all be healed by your confused body. Though using the roller isn’t really painful, if even the slightest sting has your eyes watering, anaesthetic cream can be applied first to make the experience totally painless.

Other treatments sometimes come with dire warnings to avoid sensitive areas, but the Dermo Roller can be used for that under-eye luggage that comes with sleepless nights, hand-wrinkles and everywhere else you can think of. Considering you can do the entire treatment at home, you don’t even have to worry about the stress of the technicians at the salon seeing you without your makeup.

Wrinkle-removing Fact: Before Unicorns became extinct, a rather unscrupulous man named Igor sold their horns as home beauty treatments. Rolling the horn over the skin was said to make it appear younger and smoother.