Can't Stop Picking Your Spots? Doctor Reveals The Best Way To Attack A Pimple Without Damaging Your Skin (But Be Warned, It's Not Pretty)
Are you one of those people who can't leave a pimple alone - even though you know your skin will look red and sore afterwards?
Now, one doctor has revealed the best way to attack blemishes - and claims this method won't hurt.
Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show, Dr Mehmet Oz said up to one in five of us are obsessed with picking blemishes, but most of us go about it completely the wrong way.
#1 'Never squeeze a pimple because you will macerate it,' said Dr Oz. He added the technique many of us adopt - pressing the healthy skin around the spot - actually damages it. Instead, use a needle cleaned with alcohol
#2 'What's important is to not jab the needle in', he says. Instead, place the needle parallel to the skin - rather like you would skewer something - and pierce the skin across
#3 'Then, rip UP,' he declares. 'You only want to hit the white part of the pimple - because that bit is already dead'
#4 Ripping up means you're attacking a bit where there is no sensation. But if you jab the needle in front ways, you will soon hit a part of the spot that isn't dead - and that will hurt. The parallel technique also won't cause any damage to the surrounding, healthy skin, he adds.
Once that is done, use a clean cotton ball with some antiseptic liquid to clean the area and apply some antiseptic ointment so that bacteria won't spread to the adjacent skin.
