i'm new on here but desperately need some help. like 2 weeks ago i had a bad hormonal breakout and got a lot of pimples on my cheeks. i got one near my jawline that was a whitehead but hurt pretty bad, i had refrained from picking at the other pimples bc i know how bad it is but this one had a lot of pressure so i popped it. i felt like it had SO much stuff oozing out of it that i had to keep popping it which resulted in a red mark bigger than the original pimple. anyways it's been a while and it scabbed up for about a week and the scab was kind of coming off on its own around the edges so i thought it would be a good idea to pull it off, but turns out the middle as not healed!!! now i have this indented scar looking thing on my cheek and i have picture day tomorrow so i really hope i get some replies. i know it would go away overnight but there has to be something that can flatten the hole a bit right?! i also attached pictures of the hole so please look at those
You can try to cover it up with make up and fill it up that way, but I'm not sure how much that will help. I have had a few wounds that looked almost exactly like yours (also because of picking) and luckly I didn't get any scars from them. I used pure Dexpanthenol on all of them (which you can get at the pharmacy). It took 2-3 weeks until the hole was somewhat closed for me.
Dexpanthenol is otc where I live. There are also creams with dexpanthenol, but they only contain like ~5% of it. They do not help nearly as much as the pure stuff. There is a hell of a lot of research that backs up the wound healing qualities of dexpanthenol. If I remember correctly, it took 4-5 days until I felt my wounds significantly improved.
Did the hole ever go away same thing happened to me @hannahclettenberg