How to Properly Pop a Pimple the RIGHT Way

Let me teach you how to pop a pimple without it scarring.

I can feel the pimple coming up under my skin.  I knew that in a few hours there would probably be a huge monster growing on my chin.  I knew this day would come eventually. There was no hiding from it. The stars would align and the moon would bring forth the dark light to shine upon the… okay, okay, okay… so I got a zit.

No matter how perfect your skin is, everybody gets that occasional blemish once a while. What do you do about it?

But this was all planned for you guys you know? I ate terrible foods, loaded up on the white rice and binged on the dessert section at the grungy buffets just so I could nurture this hearty and beast of a monster on the bottom of my chin. Okay, I’m kidding, so I didn’t really plan this, this pimple kind of just happened cuz I’ve been slackin’.

Or am I?

***WARNING: Viewer Discretion is Advised.***

Now I’m warning you. This video is a little gross, as a matter of fact it’s borderline “what-the-heck-are-you-doing-are-you-seriously-going-to-put-a-video-of-yourself-online-popping-a-pimple” gross.

But it must be done. For the people. For the people.

Anyway, the video you’ve all been waiting for, and for those of you who haven’t been waiting at all … it STILL has finally come. =) Just click the [Keep Reading…] link at the bottom to view.

Rated: Pg-13 – (Not recommended for children under the age of 13.)

Step 1: Wash your hands, under your nails, and face
(If you’re not familiar with this technique, please visit my video channel and watch my “How I wash my face” video)
Step 2: Sterilize the needle
Step 3: Protect your hands from getting bacteria on your face
Step 4: Pop the pimple
Step 5: Breathe and relax =)

How I Know This Stuff…

Before I started the HICMA (HowIClearedMyAcne) regimen, I was seeing a professional Asian cosmetologist we called “Aunty Angel.” I was getting a facial almost every other week for a good 8-9 months. The way it worked was I would lie down flat on, what seemed like, a dentist’s chair and she would wash my face quickly, do a brief acid peel, clean the acid off, and expand my pores with a steam machine. Her method is an excellent technique, and so far, is the best that I know of. So, without further ado, I present to you:

Angel’s Facial Technique

What you’ll need

Needle
Sanitizer (Rubbing alcohol or matches)
Some tissue paper

What you need to know before
Don’t pop a pimple when it’s still premature because it’s a lot harder to get and you might end up pushing the infection further into your skin which can cause a cyst (a very large pimple). That being said, you decide whether or not you want to take the risk. You might get it or… you might not and create an even worse problem.

Try to wait until you can see the white part of the pimple, that’s the part you want to lightly prick.

Don’t forget to sanitize your hands, face, and needle before popping the pimple. When washing your hands, don’t forget to wash under your nails too. Obviously, use the rubbing alcohol or matches on the needle and not your face. Otherwise, after popping the pimple and it being exposed, it might be infected again.

From my experience at the cosmetologist, the pores on your face generally grow downward (think of the direction a man’s facial hair grows). This applies to the forehead, the cheeks, below the cheeks (if we’re looking at the face straight on), the area behind the eyes that’s above the cheeks but below the forehead, and above and below the lip. Pretty much everywhere except the nose.

Some people suggest covering your fingertips or hands with some sort of tissue. I don’t do this because I find this really bothersome and it makes squeezing the pimple a lot harder. Just remember, the basic purpose of covering with tissue is to reduce the amount of potential bacteria.

When you dry your hands on your towel, don’t forget that every time you flush the toilet, bacteria is releasing into the air from the water particles. So remember to renew your bathroom towel every week otherwise it’s pretty much like washing your hands in a public restroom then grabbing the doorknob.

How to do it:
Use the sanitized needle and gently prick the infected area. It’s the white tip on the very top of the pimple. Our goal is to try to get the whitehead out. The whitehead has clogged our pores and caused an infection, now pus has formed within your pore and caused a pimple. If you don’t get the whitehead out, your body will deal with it, but it will take quite a while before it’s completely gone.

After you’ve pricked the pimple, place one finger south of the pimple (suppose we’re looking at the face straight on) and one finger north of the pimple. You use the south finger to push behind the pimple and hold it there. Then you position the north finger behind the pimple and slide down with the north finger to push the whitehead out.

You can think of this sort of like the south finger being a pivot while the north finger does the work. The south gets underneath the pimple and holds it in place. Then the north finger comes in and pushes the whitehead out of the pimple.

Remember: Try to think of it as getting BEHIND the whitehead to push it out. A lot of people make the mistake of just pushing on the pimple. You might end up pushing the infection further into your face.

To give you an idea of why the north finger’s nail is pointing away from the face, my cosmetologist used to wear a fake nail on the tip of her pointer finger and use that nail to push the whitehead downward out of the pore (because the pores point downward). So in a way, you’re not really using your fingers but a little bit of your nail. If you’re nail is too thin and you’re digging into your skin too much, you may want to cover your fingers with the tissue papers to avoid damaging your skin.

Your goal is to get the whitehead out, you might feel a “pop” or suddenly see it shoot out. I know it sounds kind of gross but that’s kind of why they called it “popping” a pimple. Be careful not to damage your skin around the pimple too much before getting it out otherwise you may permanently scar yourself.

If you can get the pimple out, you have to get all the pus (yellow goo) and blood out afterwards. Squeeze some of the blood out for a bit and let the wound sit for a while before checking again. You want to do this because there may still be a little bit of the infection in the blood that’s right behind the infection. Once you see clear liquid, then you can stop squeezing.

You might want to apply a layer of aloe vera gel on afterwards so that the wound isn’t completely exposed. It usually takes me about 3 days before the scab falls off but this may vary from person to person.

HOW DO I NEVER HAVE TO POP ANOTHER PIMPLE AGAIN?

The solution to curing your acne is to not focus on improving your health in the commonly accepted way.   Now, what I’m NOT saying is to not work out, not eat healthy, and not wash your skin.  That is NOT what I’m saying.  However, what I am saying is that what we believe now to be “taking care” of our bodies needs to be tweaked a little bit, especially if you have acne.  And that “tweak” that you’re looking for is exactly what How To Clear Your Acne is about.

What every acne sufferer must learn, especially the ones that are really fit and health conscious yet still can’t figure out why they still have acne, is that there is a DIFFERENT KIND OF TAKING CARE OF YOUR BODY ROUTINE for us.  Our bodies are different than the “average” person who eats whatever they want and just gains weight.  Sometimes our bodies, which you’ve probably already noticed, doesn’t even gain weight.  Sometimes, when we neglect our bodies, we just end up breaking out instead.  And it sucks.

It doesn’t make any sense that we’re eating “right,” working out, getting a good sweat, going to a sauna, washing our face, and then doing a facial mask yet we STILL breakout.  WHY?!

So whatever you do, don’t just keep working out and trying to eat “healthy” thinking that something’s going to change and that your acne is suddenly going to start clearing up if you just try harder.

I know this doesn’t work.  Because that’s what I used to do.  I would just redouble my efforts thinking that I wasn’t trying hard enough.  But that’s not the answer and it’s not going to cure your acne.

You need to stop and think.  Reformulate a new plan.  Really try and understand what’s going on.  Figure out the WHY.

It’s questions just like these that I racked my brain for years!   I’ve been in your shoes before and it’s hard to really know what works and what doesn’t.  It just seems like there are so many acne products out there, it’s hard to really find out with ones are telling the truth and which ones are lying. I’ve bought a lot of them too, Clearasil, Murad, ProActiv, those are just to name a few that I’ve tried.  I used to have use a lot of acne products such as aloe vera, benzoyl peroxide, face creams, masks, etc… But these days, I barely even wash my face once a day sometimes, and I’m still clear. I’m proof that clearing your acne the healthy and natural way works. And it’s permanent too, I still have clear skin and I have no problems maintaining acne free, clear skin.

And I finally figured out the perfect routine and way to care for our bodies and our skin if you have acne.  The true causes of acne are really dirty blood and an overwhelmed system. And I talk a lot about these two causes in my website and more in detail about how to deal with them in my products.

For anybody reading this article, if you’re serious about clearing your acne for good, the logical next step for you would be to learn about your body. It doesn’t matter if you choose me or someone else, I would highly recommend you to start learning about how to clear your acne from the inside instead of concentrating on the outside. Make sure you know that outside acne treatments are only short term, and that you really want to focus on clearing acne from the inside out.

I don’t hold back in this program, I’m telling you all of my experience, my stories, what I went through, what I learned, how I cleared my acne, and I’m teaching you exactly as if I were standing right next to you coaching you through the way. I WISH that I had something like this when I had acne. It would’ve saved me so much TIME, MONEY, and ENERGY.

I, and thousands of other people, have spent years of our lives suffering from acne.  And I mean REALLY SUFFERING from having acne.  And it’s just a handful of us that finally found the secret to be able to free ourselves from those dark days when we hated the reflections of ourselves in the mirror.

There are those people out there that look at their old pictures and remember the days when they USED TO HAVE acne.

Some of them now have moved on with their lives and forgotten about the nights that they were ashamed of meeting new people because of their acne.

The question I have for you is…

WILL THAT BE YOU?

Or are you going to just be another one of the dozens and hundreds and thousands of guys that just stand and wait… or hopes that whatever you’re doing now will somehow magically start working?

If you want to know all the steps, top to bottom and front to back for how to clear your acne once in for all, then I have a hint for you …

Go get my eBook “10 Things Every Acne Sufferer Must Know for Clear Skin”, which can you can download and be reading in just a few minutes…

It’s time for you to stop sitting on the sidelines and missing out on the acne free life you should be living. I’ll show you how.

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