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[overwasher]

Hello

I've changed everything.

My diet.. im on lite n easy which means i get regular healthy meals sent to me.. ive been on it for 3 weeks ( i know diet takes much longer for it to have any effect) im a skinny person so i dont really need to diet ( that heavily).

I eat a large bowl of salad with carrots/ cucumber for dinner etc ( its not bad actually)
I change my pillow cases every 2 days
My bed sheets every week
I drink 3-4 litres of water a day

My point is i pop my pimples at least once a week or at best once every 2 weeks at best and when i pop my pimples i pop a lot of them if not all.

I spoke to numerous skin specialsts and they told me in great detail exactly what happens when you pop your pimples..

Have you guys noticed say u have 1 pimple only on your forehead.. you pop the shit out of it and pick at it.. have u noticed most of the time another 1 or 2 pimples sprout out next to it? Imagine popping 7-10 pimples in my case and what happens then again and again?

What im saying is i can get the best creams in the world.. the best facials and have the best diet but at the end of the day if im picking my skin and it gets deeper and gets infected then im screwed at the end of the day and i will never ever be clear.

This is day 2 and i havent picked.... so good luck for me and im learning my lesson - thanks to my free consultation at the skin clinic

thanks for reading
and to the skin pickers out there ... dont do it! there is never a safe way to pick your skin EVER.. live with it!

[Scar_Tissue]

gar i just picked last night

[Tangerine]

Yep, it's true. I agree that skin picking definitely prevents you from getting clear. Stopping was one of the best things I ever did for my skin.

[acnegonenow]

When i went to the dermatologist 2 years ago she used to pop them with some tool...Its extremely hard to go out into public when you have like 5 huge white heads ready to explode..and they last for days only solution is to pop them with a needle.

[Fouracre44]

When i went to the dermatologist 2 years ago she used to pop them with some tool...Its extremely hard to go out into public when you have like 5 huge white heads ready to explode..and they last for days only solution is to pop them with a needle.

I agree that it is extremely hard to go out in public when you know people will be staring at something on your face that looks like it's gonna explode! I used to pop my pimples alot and I'm going to be dealing with scarring because of it. Mate, I wouldn't be popping with a needle yourself, that is dangerous and can quite easily spread the infected area not to mention the cleanliness of the needle.

[overwasher]

I've been popping pimples all my life.. heck the chance of a white juicey pimple not being popped is the chance of me being clear overnight.

My dermatologist gave me a long talk about the effect of popping a zit. She said " didnt u notice how when u pop a few zit on your cheek a few more comes out a week later?"

And also she mentioned when you pop a zit most of the puss / bacteria does come out but enough goes deeper in the pore and Taa daa next week it comes out again..

SO WHATS THE POINT?

Oh and popping a white zit just turns it into a yucky open wound or a scab

[Tangerine]

Personally, I think it's the actual squeezing action that causes the most damage. I find that if there's a zit with a head just begging to burst, it will often kind of pop itself when I'm washing my face. Or depending on the constitution of the zit and whether it lends itself easily to this, you can gently scratch it off with a clean fingernail, or kind of lightly prod it with a sterilized needle.

But for the love of god..... JUST NO SQUEEZING!

[overwasher]

I agree Tangerine but say if there is 2 zits.. one that has been on your face for ages and will come of with the slightest scratch.

Now what about the other one? im not sure about you guys but once i scratch one i just cant help my self and go on a scratching spree.

At best i'd wash my hands for 20 seconds with detol soap.. but what about under my nails? did i use brush to clean under my nails? no i dont think so.

What im saying i personally rather not pop / scratch anything just to form that habit.. its not worth it

[acnegonenow]

yeah i buy brand new needles all the time. i dip them in alcohol and when i have a zit ready to pop i carefully make a small poke and then all the puss comes out and i wipe it off making sure it doesnt touch my skin. then i take a shower.

[Sima]

If I have to 'pop' my pimple, by the way, I received a small whitehead because of my kind visitor that makes a point of appearing every month , I will lightly push it with two q tips, one in each hand. A little bit of the white stuff will come out but I never squeeze hard enough to the point where blood appears. The pimple is doing an amazing job of clearing up on its own. The redness is not even that prominent.

[chensg]

im able to not pick on my acne. but somehow or rather i always feel like my face itches, n i start to rub, and the next morning, a new acne is form on that spot. its annoying. my skin has a zero tolerance policy for bacteria.

Edited by chensg, 05 April 2011 - 09:25 AM.

[Timehealsall]

I don't think i have ever popped/picked at my pimples, but i got this new habit from rubbing/massaging dead/flaky skin off of my pimples.

I have seborrheic dermatitis on top of pustules, so i rub it off (the dead skin)

I havent done it for awhile, but my face is a mess with massive dead skin.

I wonder if rubbing with fingers (kind of like when you are massaging your face, not too hard but not too soft), can cause pimples to spread or even scars?

I think the best way to stop doing these things is just ignore the mirror

[acnegonenow]

sometimes they are so big i can see them when my eyes look down.

[lightersUP]

Reviving this topic for 2012!

I also noticed that I was never quite clear when I picked my skin. I'd squeeze all the zits on my face as soon as I could. Eventually I hit rock bottom and stopped touching my face completely. I was a red scabby mess and felt too depressed to even fuss with my face anymore. You know what? In a few weeks of not touching my face, my lesions healed and my skin looked great!

One important thing to do is watch a pimple go through the ENTIRE healing phase untouched. Whiteheads do go away by themselves. If I leave a whitehead alone for long enough, they almost vanish completely by themselves, either by draining or they dry up and flake off like dead skin. If you get into the mindset that your skin can heal itself over time (with the assistance of an effective skincare regimen), then the rest comes easy.

[Tyga]

Picking pushes bacteria deeper into the skin and creates an infection. It's always tempting to pop a whitehead, but you're better off leaving it alone. BP will dry out the head and it will fall off in a couple of days.

[FK in the coffee]

Reading these posts makes me think "OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE ALL THESE YEARS".
I'm such a maroon! This definitely renews my vigor to not dig at my face. ):

[amy91]

I picked last night and I regret it....Bathroom mirror is en evil, it makes every singe pore visible.

[spotsofbother]

i feel this is so important!

i'm a picker too, mainly because my face gets oily in the day due to working in a humid office and also because my foundation whatever i use always gets shiny and slides off :[ then i go to the gym and sweat lots so it's just a massive vicious cycle!

by the time i remove my make up at night, my skin is so horrendous - little whiteheads, spots, everything :[ i am so conscious about it too, i've tried so many things - face washes, toners, salicylic acid peels, nothing works :[

it's so frustrating as a few months back my skin was almost 100% clear and now i have like 14 spots!!! :[

[alexaaa]

Tangerine, on 18 March 2011 - 09:09 PM, said:

But for the love of god..... JUST NO SQUEEZING!

LOL. This.