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Caspers Mum
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:23 am  |
Sometimes, it's just so hard to resist the urge to pick!
I am ashamed to admit: I like poking at my face.  |
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Former m/up artist, former fan of OLD-school, pre-Lauder M.A.C Anti-M.A.C ! |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:33 am |
Oh yes, I'll admit it ... I'm a picker. If I left my face alone it would probably seem pretty clear (only if they looked closer could they see the blackheads that annoy me to no end). BUT ... I can't keep myself from trying to extract every little thing I see, which of course, makes something that wasn't very visible in the first place into this huge mess!  When will I ever learn! Anyway, my niece was reading an article one time where they said picking at your face is an obsessive compulsive disorder and you know what? At first I was like "yeah, whatever", but when I thought about it .. it did make sense because it's like an obession and once you start, it's hard to stop until you get every last one! |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:47 am |
i usually poke on it rather than pick on it.  |
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20s with combination skin. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:48 am |
Never once in my life have I picked at a blemish, and I don't have any scars to speak of. I also have never used BP or any other agent that dries them out and leaves scars. Thank goodness I encountered a strong corrective oil early on and it dissolves and heals them FAST. Every time my boyfriend has tried to "pop" a zit on my face, it's become a monster. So I swear by the "kill 'em with antispetic EO theory.
--avalange |
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http://newnaturalbeauty.tumblr.com/ 37, light-toned olive skin, broken caps, normal skin. My staples: Osea cleansing milk, Algae Oil, Advanced Protection Cream, Eyes & Lips, Tata Harper, Julie Hewett makeup, Amazing Cosmetics Powder, & By Terry Light Expert, Burnout, and daily inversion therapy and green smoothies! |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:20 pm |
| I totally do even though I shouldn't. I've been learning to just let some things chill on their own and my skin is SO much less scarred/irritated - why is it that we have this picking compulsion, when it clearly makes things worse? |
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32, fair hair/eyes/skin, always a mix of dry/oily/sensitive/acne/clogged pores. But I keep getting compliments on my skin, so something must be working! Beauty blog at http://heliotro.pe; online dating coaching at http://theheartographer.com |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:47 pm |
yes yes, i know i shouldnt pick my blemishes....but i do and it always leaves it redder and more painful but its so, so, so tempting to just pick it, poke it
i can honestly say that i have always picked my face |
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Premenstrual acne, combination, dehydrated skin. Using- Retin-a, bb cream, Asian sheet masks, Avene mist, Dr Jart |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:18 pm |
I used to be a picker but recently I haven't picked and glad I haven't!  |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:30 pm |
| GUILTY as charged. I do and it is because I always believe if "I just get it now", then it will be gone sooner. Never I said NEVER the case. Most of the time I make them worse and more obvious. I need to throw away my 10X mirror and maybe I will stop picking. But I need the 10X for those damn hairs on my chin. Lord will it ever end.? |
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39 Year "young" female, Using PTR glycolic cleanser and Finacea with success! Passion for living and love Sunny Days/Beaches and The Ocean |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:31 pm |
I noticed that the acnes on my cheeks will never heal if I don't pick them. The stuff underneath will stay there for ever. Does anyone have the same problem? Of course, it always leave a scar after I pick them.
Avalange, could you share with us which corrective oil you used? Thank you. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:23 pm |
| Mine too. If I don't extract them they will never heal regardless of what I put on it. Especially plugs, if I don't extract them they'll be there forever. But I also don't scar easily and don't have any visible scar to speak of. Just a few rather enlarged pores due to some particularly inflamed acne. But whether I pick at them or not they will leave pigmentation marks that take forever to go away. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:09 pm |
| Picker from way back. Yes, and it's all the fault of 10x mag mirror. If I don't look in it I don't see all the imperfections. However, my magnification mirror is permanently on my desk -one look and its pick, pick, pick. Another problem, I'm using Retin-A now and it's making my skin much more vulnerable to the picking so I have to be extra careful. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:12 pm |
| htian21 wrote: |
I noticed that the acnes on my cheeks will never heal if I don't pick them. The stuff underneath will stay there for ever. Does anyone have the same problem? Of course, it always leave a scar after I pick them.
Avalange, could you share with us which corrective oil you used? Thank you. |
Hi htian21!
I use Osea's essential corrective oil. You can check it out atwww.oseaskin.com. It works, no doubt about it. There are similar, less expensive products on the market, like the one from ifeelpretty, but I stick with the tried and true. they last a long while. You can also, I imagine, easily make your own.
--avalange |
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http://newnaturalbeauty.tumblr.com/ 37, light-toned olive skin, broken caps, normal skin. My staples: Osea cleansing milk, Algae Oil, Advanced Protection Cream, Eyes & Lips, Tata Harper, Julie Hewett makeup, Amazing Cosmetics Powder, & By Terry Light Expert, Burnout, and daily inversion therapy and green smoothies! |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:14 pm |
If I see it, I pick it.  |
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34, oily acne-prone skin, Toronto, Canada |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:21 pm |
It makes feel better now knowing that I am one of 95% pickers
I did get scarred from my picking. Now when I have breakouts I try not to look at them in the mirror then I won't pick them. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:55 pm |
| iaimei wrote: |
| Now when I have breakouts I try not to look at them in the mirror then I won't pick them. |
but even if you try to avoid looking at yourself in the mirror, when applying your creams and all sorts, it's still going to be there and the urge to pick it will be tempting 
because i am like that too, i try not to look too close in the mirror so i wont need touch my blemishes! |
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Premenstrual acne, combination, dehydrated skin. Using- Retin-a, bb cream, Asian sheet masks, Avene mist, Dr Jart |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:12 pm |
| I have finally, after 37 years, stopped picking, and you know what? My skin is finally clear - I realize now that it was all the picking at virtually non-existant things that made my skin so bad for so long. I also stopped touching my face and that has made a huge difference. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:15 pm |
| I pick, but I don't think that my picking makes things any worse that they would be without me touching. I did go through phases when I was very disciplined about not touching my face, and thigs were just as bad, if not worse . |
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44, oily T-zone, acne prone (PCOS) ~ Baby Q & Tanda (blue light) ~ Karin Herzog (Oxy Face, Vita-A-Kombi 2, Vitamin H, Eye cream) ~ PSF (Cramberry Eye Gel) ~ Pearl/Silk powder primer and mist ~ L2K ~ MMU |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:31 pm |
| I don't get many pimples. When I do, I get great satisfaction to pop that zit. |
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As I am getting older I realize my biggest beauty secret is smile more and frown less. Be aware that wrinkles do not make a person unattractive. Cynicism, unforgiveness, anger and jealousy are the real culprits. Sixty something |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:46 pm |
| I pick, but much less than I used to. As a teenager, I really made a mess of face quite a few times. Now, when I do pick, I make sure that I've prepared my skin for an extraction before I attempt it. |
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AmieRae
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Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:27 pm |
| I pick my blemishes a lot less than I used to as a teen. Now I know which ones are the ones I can get away with touching and which ones are better left alone. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:36 pm |
I echo the sentiments of those who have to pick b/c if I don't, the zit will never go away or it will return.
I should stop the excessive picking though. |
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28 / Asian / oily tzone + dehydrated / Acne under control, fading acne marks. Still have clogged pores. |
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Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:24 pm |
Guilty as charged. I've been getting them on my neck from working out and I hate them. Now I have marks
Avalange...do you put that OSEA stuff on regularly or on a zit? I wonder if I can put something on my neck before I go to the gym that will provide a barrier for my pore-clogging sweat??? |
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36 yrs old. Jewish/Italian Combo skin. Tans easily. Native Floridian. New to a skin care regime. Sad about lines under eyes, crows feet and horizontal forehead lines! |
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Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:37 am |
| I have for years. I can definitely see it as some sort of obsessive compulsive issue. The problem now is that the damage I leave lasts on my skin 10x longer than the actual congestion itself. |
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46, curly dk blonde hair, fair, blue eyes, very oily T-zone. HGs: Tazorac .05% gel; Avene/Bioderma s/s (very high spf AND ppd); Cellbone vit Cie 20%; Cellbone Hyperpeptides; IFP 5% bha/10% aha; Obagi Clear; 'curly girl' method (no poo, just co wash) for my 3b curls. |
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Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:07 am |
| tsjmom wrote: |
| I have for years. I can definitely see it as some sort of obsessive compulsive issue. The problem now is that the damage I leave lasts on my skin 10x longer than the actual congestion itself. |
One strathegy would be to try to be patient (over several days!)and keep the skin as soft and fully hydrated (and not inflammed), to try to bring the pimple to the surface as much as possible. Recognizing that the absess ityself has already done a little damage, if you see the place where the pus or whatever it is is the most visible and "wanting to leave the kin"), sterlize a super-fine sewing needle really well using peroxide and alocohol, and then make a very small hole at the visible place -- presumably where ther is the minimum of dermis between the pus and the outside world. Some of the stuff should exit in it's own from the pressure (the body is pressing all things in the skin outward anyway). If you very very gently, while pulling the skin outward and open) press to express what more you can, without getting maniacal about it, and then immediately clean it and sterilize it with peroxide, and follow with some sort of antibacterial treatment, you may do a minimum of damage overall, but still will have indulge the urge to "get that poison out of you", which I thing is at the root of the compulsion to squeeze pimples.
I have a terrible compulsion to absent mindedly feel around my face and back for plugged pores and give them a single sort of chiseling scrub move with a fingernail to remove them. |
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Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:24 am |
I'm guilty by far
What's worse is I have the type of skin that ALWAYS scars...but I too have the type of pimples that if they aren't 'expressed' (i love that term, makes it sounds less gross...almost classy, hahaha!) they just stay there. I rarely (knock on wood) get pus-filled pimples...I get zits that when popped 'express' a hard white sebum, like a white head |
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