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19 October 2006

MeCha Survey: Are you a picker and a squeezer, or do you leave it well alone to heal itself?[More:]Me, I just cannot let it be.
Oh, I'm with you EJ. I cannot leave it alone.
posted by Fuzzbean 19 October | 13:47
Are we talking about pimples? As should be obvious from my abundance of pockmarks, I am a squeezer.
posted by jonmc 19 October | 13:47
GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD
posted by loquacious 19 October | 13:48
me too.
posted by gaspode 19 October | 13:57
me too.
posted by getoffmylawn 19 October | 13:57
Squeezist. Until I started taking antibiotics last month to make all the spots go away. (Not sure why I waited until I was 29 to sort out my teenage skin, but hey ho.)
posted by jack_mo 19 October | 13:59
jack_mo: several women I've dated have described my acne scars as 'sexy.' I'd be the last person to try to second guess the feminine mind, but something to think about before going in for the smoothing and buffing.
posted by jonmc 19 October | 14:04
Loooove the squeezing. I got a professional facial a month or two ago, and they put this chemical on your face that opens your pores, and then they squeeze everything out, and it hurt so bad I nearly cried, but it was awesome at the same time.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 October | 14:17
Not only am I a squeezer, I gave my teenage son a tutorial on the proper method of zit destruction. With a responsible caveat, of course, about how this was really a bad idea and he should never do it, but, you know, if he did. . .
posted by mygothlaundry 19 October | 14:18
Y'all are gross. I'm a leaver.
posted by mudpuppie 19 October | 14:29
Now that she's gone, let's all fart.

I'm a farter.
posted by jonmc 19 October | 14:33
Biore strips changed my life. Well, at least they vastly reduced the number of blackheads/zits that spontaneously form in the oily creases of my nose, immediately around my nostrils.

Accept no substitutes.
posted by paulsc 19 October | 14:35
Yesssss, biore strips are the best!

Hell, I'm gonna do one right now.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 October | 15:02
See? this is one good thing that comes with age (I believe the *only* good thing): less zits. In fact nowadays when I get one (once a year) I leave it alone. Better yet: I show it off. I call it: "my acne"! But back in the good ol' days when I used to get them often, well, I was a leaver then too.

As for them blackheads, those I squeeze, vehemently.
posted by carmina 19 October | 15:45
I'm the opposite, carmina. Not a zit on my face until I hit 40, then the teenage hormones kicked in. Or something.
posted by essexjan 19 October | 16:18
heh! jan. You can use this to your advantage, my friend! Lucky you!
posted by carmina 19 October | 16:29
Squeezer. As a kid tho', I'd squeeze until they were a bloody mess. Usually around school photo time, of course. Now, I just get rid of the white-head part and leave them alone. Once I've done that you can't tell there was a pimple there. I don't get black-heads.

I tried the Biore strips for a while but they didn't do much for me except irritate my skin.

And yeah, what's up with zits at almost forty?! They really clash with all my silver hair.
posted by deborah 19 October | 16:33
Don't even get me started.
A picker & I wish I wasn't.
posted by seanyboy 19 October | 17:52
Same here, seanyboy. And I'm 40 and they're still here. I've tried everything but ProActiv-has anyone had any luck with that?
posted by redvixen 19 October | 18:44
I'm learning to stretch and then pull them out by the hair.
posted by brujita 20 October | 00:38
This post is well-timed. I have two hideous caldera zits on my face right now. Couldn't leave either of them alone.
posted by mike9322 20 October | 08:01
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