JFF- Do You Pop Zits?

Updated on March 29, 2011
R.D. asks from Richmond, VA
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I know you're really not supposed to because you can scar or get an infection, but every so often when I get a big fat zit, I'VE GOTTA POP THAT SUCKER!! I also use some zit spot treatment stuff by clean and clear that I loooove... but really, does anyone else pop zits? Honestly, I have one scar from a blemish, and guess what... that's the one I DIDN'T pop!!

My fiance won't. It drives me nuts when he walks around with a spot on his face for weeks that would just go away if he'd pop it and slap some medicine on it... but I'm not one of those people who would offer to do it for him (I had a girlfriend that would pop your zit if you asked, [cringe])

Just wondering :)

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answers from Chattanooga on

I do. :) I can't stand having zits. I like the ones that really POP! lol Gross, I know, but for me it's like 'HA!! Teach you to hang out on MY face!' lol. I especially HATE when I have one on my back/shoulders that I can't reach. My fiance laughs at me because I will be in front of the mirror all contorted trying to get the right angle to pop it. I can't stand to have someone else pop one on me, or to pop for someone else though.

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J.B.

answers from Albany on

i pop them. i have a bad habit with blackheads and zits that are white. My fiance lets them be, until i force him to let me pop them.. i think it is more discusting to see a person with white zits all over then it isto see just red marks. im with you on this one!!

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A.D.

answers from Norfolk on

i love popping zits. Especially my husbands haha...i know, i'm disgusting. I also love getting big globs of earwax out of my kids' ears too. They're going to be in therapy from this, i'm sure.

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L.S.

answers from Spokane on

I'd rather have a red bump for a day or two after popping than a gross whithead for a week! So yeah, I'm a popper :o)

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N.R.

answers from Boston on

I go for the black heads. Love them. God we're all gross.
:)

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M.P.

answers from Lafayette on

i'm a popper. as soon as it forms a head it has to be popped. my fiance doesn't often pop his zits and it drives me nuts. its all i can do to hold myself back and not pop it. he gets them on his back too, and i just want to attack him some nights and pop them. i know its gross, but i have to look at it, and i hate seeing the zits.

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T.L.

answers from St. Louis on

Gross, but so guilty! :)

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A.S.

answers from Detroit on

YES! And like your friend, I'm one that will do it for a family member or my hubby (a friend or two as well).

But I prefer to get at those blackheads. : )

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M.P.

answers from Provo on

I'm a popper too!!!! I prefer a red face than red and white one! Seein that actual puss in my face is soo disgusting!!! Pop away!

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M.C.

answers from Washington DC on

yep. then get looks at work for it. which 'look' is worse tho....the one for having one or the one for popping one.

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D.G.

answers from Lincoln on

ewww!!! Gross!!! and Yes I do!!! Can't stand to see it! or sometimes feel it! and even though i spent YEARS going to dermatologists and tried topical and oral meds my face isn't much different than before! Actually maybe a little better cuz i don't get those huge period zits after I had my girls!.... I did have a boyfriend that wanted me to pop his and I just told him it didn't count as foreplay!!! LOL

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J.G.

answers from San Antonio on

yes. I pop the 'easy' ones and my husband pops those really hard to get to stubborn zits. Some may say that's gross for him to do it - but he does a good job getting it all out. I will squeeze and get some out, but then it just hurts and i have to pop it again a few days later to get the rest out. (I would NEVER want a girlfriend to do it. But maybe that's b/c my girlfriends just aren't the zit-popping type).

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L.B.

answers from New York on

Yes I pop them and if my 13 year old son gets them I pop his!

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D.P.

answers from Pittsburgh on

R.--
LOL I couldn't even get through most of your responses......eeeewwweeee.
I think we all do it but just talking about it (or reading) makes me wretch!

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L.N.

answers from New York on

oh my god, reading the responses i was disgusted while laughing my behind off. so, yes I am a popper too. hahaha i love if i have someone to do mine. i never had acne, but whiteheads? i think I am the mother of them. also blackheads, my nose is filled with them. that's why i want a facial so bad but i am embarrassed to go because i feel like they will laugh me out of the salon when they see my nose. :(

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V.W.

answers from Jacksonville on

Actually I don't mind the "white spot" but it is painful when they don't get popped. I do it more to relieve the pressure, but it does seem like they go away faster that way. And I've never had any scarring from popping. Though, I've never had much acne... I was blessed with really clear skin for the most part. I could probably count on one hand the number of zits I had in all of high school.

Unfortunately for my son, who's almost 13, he didn't seem to inherit that particular trait from me. He had a zit on his cheek/chin on Sunday. And it wasn't the first.

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E.B.

answers from Seattle on

Yes!!! My hubby and I do eachtohers backs...i have long hair and get bad black heads...so my main man always has my back...shoot i cant see back there to get them. Then i will do his back after he showers on saturdays. not every saturday just whenever he asks:)

He can get on my nerves when he will lunge at my face all of all of a sudden....
In regards to black heads on my face...I do them...i dont like people touching my face...it my one thing.

I keep tell my hubby i am going to pluck his eye brows too. He is getting really long ones every once and awhile and they will stick out and oh my god, if he wouldnt cry like a baby i would get 'em suckers!!

-Libby

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C.F.

answers from Boston on

Guilty!! As soon as I see a white head --ITS GOTTA GO !! lolol
Um EWWW I dont think I would do it for anyone else tho....

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