THE ONLY WAY TO POP!
I tell my clients this so much, I feel like a broken record. If you squeeze a whitehead:
-you inflame it and the tissue around it
-it bleeds and scabs over, making it harder to cover up
-it ends up lasting a week instead of a few days
-you might even damage the skin, leaving you with a scar.
But I get it. You wake up and there’s an unsightly whitehead on your chin. You can’t go to work or class and subject your peers to it. They’ll lose their appetites! But that doesn’t mean you should annihilate your face either and walk in with a scab. Run hot water that is pretty hot but not so hot that you can’t touch it with your finger. Place a corner of a clean washcloth under the hot water to soak it.
Wring it out so it’s no longer dripping. Immediately hold the corner with your finger directly on top of the blemish.
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