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Has anyone evere used a black head remover? I bought one the other day from the body shop cos I have a few blackheads on my nose (hell, doesn't everyone?).
The idea is you put hot water on your face to open the pores up and then press this contraption onto a black head and (gross bit) the stuff inside the black head is squeezed out.
The trouble is, all it seems to have done is iritate my skin, so now instead of having a few mostly unnoticable black dots on my nose, I have several irritated looking red dots! <IMG SRC="mad.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"> <IMG SRC="rolleyes.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
Am I doing something wrong? Help! I know there is more important things than this, especially as I need a job and somewhere to live (if anyone is offering....) but this is annoying me.
The idea is you put hot water on your face to open the pores up and then press this contraption onto a black head and (gross bit) the stuff inside the black head is squeezed out.
The trouble is, all it seems to have done is iritate my skin, so now instead of having a few mostly unnoticable black dots on my nose, I have several irritated looking red dots! <IMG SRC="mad.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"> <IMG SRC="rolleyes.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
Am I doing something wrong? Help! I know there is more important things than this, especially as I need a job and somewhere to live (if anyone is offering....) but this is annoying me.
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And I'm sure they give you more spots - after all, you're raking a dirty piece of metal around your face.
Just steam & squeeze instead. <IMG SRC="smile.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
my mum picked me one up (im a boy who dont like body shops and stuff...slugs snails puppydog tails <IMG SRC="wink.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">) and she started waggin it in my face for months goin "go on! its really good i hear!"
good my ass. just hurt a lot and never worked.
and dont get me started on those sticky glue strip thingys <IMG SRC="mad.gif" border="0" ALT="icon"> lol
edited to add something that just sprung to mind...i did see something that looked pretty good once; like a syringe with a cupped end instead of a sharp point...apparentl ya put the tiny cup over ya blackhead and pull the plunger back to suck out the stuff inside the blackhead. think i see it in a chemist or one of those small kleenez catalogues or something
~dappa
[ 04-05-2002: Message edited by: dappa_don ]
The beauty-therapist woman suggested opening up your pores by steaming them and then getting a sterilised needle and then popping/slicing/injecting it.
I remember that being the painful part of the facial because she got some zapper device to get rid of them. *eugh*
But I haven't been brave enough to try it myself.
[ 04-05-2002: Message edited by: whitetiger72 ]