I’m trying to figure out what I’m supposed to be looking at in your photos Harriet? I don’t see anything that would particularly alarm me. Looks like good healthy skin, a pimple here and there and some fine hairs. (Common skin on “youngins.”) I read through the thread a bit, and I don’t understand the issue?
As the late “hair bard” used to say, “To squeeze or not to squeeze, that is the question.”
It all depends on what the “little rascal” is (is), (as Bill Clinton would say) … it could be many different things. A lot depends on where the zit is in its goblin-like life-cycle. If the plug of hard sebum has not yet ruptured the follicle wall, I suppose a gentle push-out of the junk would avoid the “next stage of ‘self-infection’?”
Does popping a zit cause a scar? Sometimes it prevents scar formation; but if the (actual) infection is made worse … well, you get the idea. I defer to the “pimple experts” who have years of popping the little goblins. So, there it is, I have nothing to offer and no opinion!
Well, one opinion: if you don’t want your electrologist to squeeze your pimple, tell her not to do it! Seems simple to me. The “mythology of the pimple?” Somebody should write a book about this, (or at least a good paragraph.)
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argh.
