I find popping big juicy pimples strangely satisfying… It’s gross but totally true!
TMI ALERT: I can usually resist mine, but before I met El Hub I briefly dated a dude with serious bacne. When those suckers would ripen, I’d go to WORK.
I dunno… Maybe I thought I was doing my part to liberate clogged pores, and no pimple was left behind!
Generally speaking, however, it’s better to refrain from popping pimples and to allow the body to heal on its own (over-zealousness can lead to scarring). That said, if you still must pop, pop safely. 🙂
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Karen
P.S. For more on pimple popping, see The Proper Way To Pop A Pimple and Is Pimple Popping Dangerous & Will It Really Make Your Acne Worse?
Hilarious. This post made my day. Love your blog Karen.
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Hi Michelle,
Thanks!
Haha, I wouldn’t touch anyone else’s zits but mine. But there was this one instance when my uncle asked me to extract a blackhead from his back. It looked like a mole but once you prick it oh from the depths of his pore is something that I wouldn’t want to describe! And it was something that kept on coming back! Some time after my extraction he asked me to check if it was still there, lo and behold it was back! LOL
Hi Nina,
My mom had something like that on her back, too. My bro and I would take turns attacking it when it came back, ha!
Hey Karen, long time no comment! been very busy but I have been keeping up with your posts. 🙂
This one just tugged at my heartstrings so I couldn’t help myself … maybe not acne, per se, but I do get an odd sense of satisfaction of getting at my BF’s blackheads (or are they whiteheads?). Just the *joy* of seeing it pop out of the skin.
e.e oh goodness, I am SICK.
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Hi Zara,
How have you been? I hope that you’re having a good summer so far. 🙂
I don’t pop pimples but I do like to squuuueeeeeze out the blackheads/whiteheads from my Hubby’s nose….hehe!!! 😛
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Hi Vonvon,
HA! I’m guilty of that, too. Sooo satisfying.
Absolutely hi-lar post! I usually do not pop others’ pimples. I’ve done it on a rare occasion. Once my ma had a really bad pimple and kept complaining about it, calling it a “goiter” and the like LOL. I told her, I could take it off her hands… or rather her face. She was afraid because she never pops her own pimples, but she let me do it. She said it hurt a lot, but felt really relieved because after it was popped, all the pus had come out and it healed right away.
Hi Rachel,
Now that’s love, girlfriend.
i am with you on that – i too believe taking out the gunk from a pimple is like liberating clogged pores
other than my immediate family i dont mess with anyone elses – i am also as fidgety as they come when something pops up on my face – i have been known to perform surgeries on myself from time to time – thank god i do not have any permanent scarring !
Hi Yadi,
Gah, me too! One thing that I’ve noticed helps is keeping my nails short. When they’re long it just makes the whole thing too easy.
Yeah you know me! Ok really though, the hubbie makes me pop his sometimes and it literally makes me gag. I beg, I plead but he makes me do it. The whole time I am trying to look away and not barf. I don’t know what it is, I’m afraid I’m hurting him and it just gives me the willies haha!
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Hi Vampy Varnish,
You’re a good sport. Gotta love a partner who’ll go above and beyond the call of duty to pop your zits for ya.
My hubby asks me to do this and I can’t. It actually makes me feel a bit sick to my stomach.
Now my zits are a whole different story. I feel like a won a trophy when I get a good one!
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Hi Stef,
Ha! I am tempted to pop a few on myself right now, LOL!
my boyfriend and i were just discussing this; he thinks its a ‘woman thing’ because he’s met a few who are into it…but alas, not as much as I am. i have to hold him down, though, because he hates it. he also got a mean sunburn on July 4th thats now peeling…i’m all over it.
and i have no shame. i freely admit that there have been times standing in line at the grocery store, bank or wherever and spotted a mean zit on some strangers neck or something, and its all i can do to contain myself from diving in head first.
i’m sick, i know. i’m finally ok with it, too. 🙂
Hi Sarah,
LOL! I have yet to be tempted by a stranger’s zit. I can see how it would be enticing, though!
haha apparently, you are not alone (according to your poll results). i actually don’t like popping pimples b/c the contents are pretty gross. however, i am fascinated with extracting blackheads/whiteheads haha.
I don’tlike popping pimples, I prefer to let them them hal on their own. But whenever I get a pimpl, my boyfriend always tries to pop it.
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haha i never have because i find that kinda gross…but anytime i have one my husband wants to pop it..i tell him hell no lol
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I am an active OPP popper lol… my boyfriend is the victim!
Hahaha, “no pimple left behind” should have been a good policy in the Bush administration!!! I personally don’t touch other people’s zits and hope they don’t do the same to moi. However, I have a cousin who’s just like you and her daughter likes to peel the scabs off my face!
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I don’t do other people’s, but there is a definite rush of satisfaction when I detonate one on my own face! Especially the ones that hurt – when they finally get to the point where you CAN pop them, they look so much worse but FEEL so much better after a good squeeze.
LOL yes…I pop my boyfriends! His face is clear (except for blackheads that I get with a pore strip…), but his back gets some HUGE ones from sweating at the gym. I usually have to catch him off guard when he’s laying on his tummy watching TV lol…so gross, but so satisfying.
Ewww… but yes, I’m down with OPP.
Is that even legal? HAHAHAH I will never pop anyone’s pimples.
I would for my husband if he REALLY REALLY wanted me too, but in general I think it’s pretty gross 😉
Karen, you’re the coolest. I love how you can be explicit with this stuff. I never popped anyone else’s zits buuut I go to town with ingrown hairs. My last boyfriend would get some after shaving and save those up for me. I also felt liberation in releasing that trapped hair!
Hi Tatiana,
🙂 Thanks. GIRRRRL… I would go to town on El Hub’s ingrown hairs if I could. He won’t let me touch ’em, boo!
I also like popping the blocked pores on my boyfriends back and he really likes the attention! We are a weird couple!
Hi Alison,
I don’t think you guys are the only ones! I suspect there are a ton of couples that get a kick out it, too, LOL!
I luvvv ya girl BUT — ewwwwww!
OMG – no, never. I wouldn’t even pop them on my children (when they were teenagers).
I can’t even go there. My DH makes me put drying cream on his when he gets them – every time I try to get out of it – I tell him I didn’t do it for my children, so I don’t understand why I would want to do it for him!
Give me a break! Take care of your own dam skin!
OK – rant over.
Sometimes I’ll see a pimple or a blackhead on someone that I just want to pinch out, but I could never bring myself to pop someone elses’ pimples. As much as I want to see the pore breathe freely, I’d get too grossed out to go near someone elses’ blemishes.
Now mine, though, are a different story. Most of the time, I can’t leave them unpopped!
Hi Brittnie,
LOL… yeah, those suckers are hard to resist. It takes a lot of will power to leave ’em alone.
I feel relieved to learn I’m not the only one who finds it strangely wonderful to pop pimples.
Karen:
I predict this will be your most popular post aside from the give-aways.I totally eradicate my pop-worthy specimens, but am grossed out by the idea of touching someone else’s. Sometimes I see someone with a huge, hulking surface-zit and sure wish they’d do it themselves though, I want to tell them what they need to do and how it will feel sooo much better afterwards.
Hi Ashley Jean,
LOL! I guess pimple popping needed a public platform (oops… got a little too alliteration happy there). 🙂
My boyfriend and I are both compulsive poppers, so I pop his that he can’t get to, and he pops mine. It works. 🙂
I have one word that will sum up my answer: :three year old voice: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Wow these comments make me LOL! But I do have to confess I like popping my own. Never tried someone else’s though. It’s sort of embarassing!
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Hi Smiley,
LOL! Maybe try it sometime. You’ll find it weirdly satisfying!
omg!!!! i am obsessed with popping pimples! i try real hard to avoid my own ( its hard they are so tempting!), but if i see one on my boyfriend i have to get it hehe. Two of my ex boyfriends both had bacne &…. i loved it! I know it sounds so gross but there is something so fun/rewarding about squeezing a big pimple.
p.s i actually squeezed a huge black head from my dads nose yesterday! and today in a fitting room my best friend popped a lil one on my back for me 🙂
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Ha. I love how the poll is split between HECK NAW and HECK YES. 😛 Personally I am a HECK NAW, but I will admit I find myself staring at my boo’s ‘facial imperfections.’ He has that post pizza face thing going on that is quite curious to stare at…
Ya you know me! And ew. I did it in high school, for my bf, if the thing was like so big it was staring back at me or something. (Look it follows you across the room!). Or if they were literally painful to him– not just for me to look at.
Now that I know better I’d not do it again, what with the infection risks. Or I’d upgrade and get one of those fancy lancers.
I haven’t gotten major pimples since high school (every so often a small whitehead pops up but I take that sucker down). BUT. It’s such a nasty habit.. I attack Charlie like white on rice. rofl
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Ahhh yes!!! unfortunately my current bf will not let me anywhere near 1 particular one on his back that is a whitehead about the size of pea!!! omg. it is SO ready to be popped and squeezed out. alas, he insists that its a cyst and nothing will come out (little does he know, when he is passed out drunk, I have my way with it!)
I hope I am not invading your chat. I came across this web site while Googling information about acne on my back. I consider myself an OK looking guy who takes care of himself (I exercise, eat well etc.). But I am very self-conscious about the acne I tend to get on my back. I can keep my back clear if I wash my back thoroughly, every morning, with special cleansers. But this process is very time consuming (and hard to do). I also have to stay away from chocolate or I will get cyst-like acne on my back. I always assumed women were completely grossed out by my acne. I was amazed to find your posts on here that some of you actually enjoy doing extractions. I wish I could find a woman like that. I believe if I could get to these clogged pores on my back as blackheads, before they become cyst-like zits, my back would be clear.
I am obsessed with (mostly) blackheads on my bf’s back! If we are swimming together, I try to feel around and look for any blackheads that I can squeeze out. There is so much satisfaction from clearing them off his back. He let’s me do it if he’s in a good mood, if not, he won’t let me get near!
I also have him squeeze any pimples or blackheads on my back, too. I used to think I was the only one who was obsessed like this, and I’m glad to know I’m not!
definitely a liberating thing to release the inner goo. gross i know. I used to be obsessed with popping zits when I had them, then my skin cleared up and I became obsessed with anything that wasnt even a pimple. So no I do it to my husband, who has the endurance to never pop one himself and I literally have to beg him to let me do it. he hates it and it never fails that everytime I do queeze his, he says “I hate my life” lol
HAHA! popping pimple can be addicting.Sooo satisfying. I also used to pop mine when they appeared but iI wouldn’t touch anyone else’s zits. I sooo love this post Karen 🙂 Hilarious!
Keep up the good work. God Bless 🙂