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Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:31 am  |
Why didn't I leave it alone?!  It was barely noticeable this morning, but I had to go and have a pick at it and now it's a big ugly red thing. I have an interview tomorrow and don't want it to be there. Has anyone got any top tips for overnight treatments to reducing the redness? (And sorry to be graphic/gross, but in my attempt to extract the gunk I also made a mess of the skin and now it's open/weeping.)
I've got a cupboard full of all sorts of ointments, masks, creams, etc so if someone has a good suggestion chances are I'll probably have it on-hand to give it a try!
Any help/suggestions VERY much appreciated. TIA! |
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:26 pm |
| put a topical like neosporin or polysporin where the skin is broken, it will help it heal faster! |
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:00 pm |
| apply few drops of tea tree oil on it ..you might want to dilute it if you ve sensitive skin ..HTH |
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:19 pm |
OMG, I feel for you!!! Ok, first things first--- this won't help you now, however, the next time you need to extract a blemish and you can't afford to have any "downtime", try this method my aesthetician taught me the last time I was having a similar crisis:
http://www.essentialdayspa.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=25330&highlight=lavender+aesthetician
In the meantime, if you have any Dr. Mist, spray it on liberally--- it will help! Also if you have any Finacea (azelaic acid), that's also helpful in bringing down inflammation quickly. Failing that, try using a wet chamomile tea bag as a compress and then top it off with a dab of hydrocortisone cream/Burt's Bees Dr. Burt's Healing Ointment. No matter what, NO more picking at it or squeezing it, at least until after your interview tomorrow. Good luck, and keep us updated! |
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27, sensitive/reactive/acne prone skin, dark brown hair, blue eyes, possibly the palest woman alive... |
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:09 pm |
As I am reading the book "Dr Denses's secrets for ageless skin", she reveled one of her personal secrets for treating occasional acne outbreaks:
" to put a prescription-strength corticosteroid cream on the cystic acne site at the earliest sign of an outbreak. I cover it with a bandage strip to keep it on all night, because without coverage it does not work. By the morning, the acne has usually shrunk. I repeat this once or twice before the acne is gone. Ever since I began this method, I have not had a red acne scar " but she also WARNS the danger of using this method "prolonged steroid use on skin thins out the skin, so one must limit this treatment to one to two nights only. This treatment has a similar effectiveness to corticosteroid injection into the acne site but of course less risky"
I found her method interesting and tempt to try it out, but I will absolutely refrain from over-doing this. |
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:54 am |
| iaimei wrote: |
As I am reading the book "Dr Denses's secrets for ageless skin", she reveled one of her personal secrets for treating occasional acne outbreaks:
" to put a prescription-strength corticosteroid cream on the cystic acne site at the earliest sign of an outbreak. I cover it with a bandage strip to keep it on all night, because without coverage it does not work. By the morning, the acne has usually shrunk. I repeat this once or twice before the acne is gone. Ever since I began this method, I have not had a red acne scar " but she also WARNS the danger of using this method "prolonged steroid use on skin thins out the skin, so one must limit this treatment to one to two nights only. This treatment has a similar effectiveness to corticosteroid injection into the acne site but of course less risky"
I found her method interesting and tempt to try it out, but I will absolutely refrain from over-doing this. |
Thanks for the great tip, iaimei! I'm going to have to try that.
Graceless lady, how are things lookin today? |
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27, sensitive/reactive/acne prone skin, dark brown hair, blue eyes, possibly the palest woman alive... |
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:06 am |
Thank you all for the fantastic tips! I put a chamomile tea bag on it to reduce the redness/swelling, and then slept with a dab of hydrocortisone. This morning, the swelling and redness had gone down considerably - but unfortunately the skin was a little "burned" from where I'd put some salicylic acid on it yesterday. Not easy to put make-up on that without making it look worse, so I just put a tiny amount of foundation on it. And the good news is the interview went well and I have a new client!
There are some fantastic tips here, and I am very grateful to those of you who responded. And I vow here and now to do my best to NEVER pick again!!! |
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:55 pm |
| I would warn everyone about putting tea tree oil directly on a pimple without diluting it first. I know this because I did this last month for two huge blind pimples on my chin and I ended with a chemical burn! I still have red marks on my chin now and I am using Mario Badescu healing cream which is helping. I have also bought the MB buffering lotion and drying cream which is supposed to be great but I will try the cortisone cream if I ever get a large blind pimple again. Thanks for the tip! |
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:56 pm |
| glad to hear everything turned out okay! if you don't have a pressing event in the near future, it might be worthwhile to lightly "lance" your blemish (with one of those diabetes pricking things--they're actually really cheap at the drugstore), then apply a TINY, TINY (i cannot emphasize this enough!) amount of a retinoid and some bha directly on the pimple. repeat this hourly, preferably at least four. the blemish goes away like nothing else; unfortunately, sometimes this technique leaves me with a brown hyperinflammatory scar. ah well, i guess you can't have everything. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:52 am |
| I have a great trick. Disolve an aspirin and dab the zit with it. Then put Neosporin Cream w/Pain Relief (not the ointment) over the asprin. Cover with one of those small round bandages and sleep with it over night. It shrinks the zit considerably by the next day. I just had a whopper on my chin and you can barely see it now. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:14 am |
| graceless_lady wrote: |
Thank you all for the fantastic tips! I put a chamomile tea bag on it to reduce the redness/swelling, and then slept with a dab of hydrocortisone. This morning, the swelling and redness had gone down considerably - but unfortunately the skin was a little "burned" from where I'd put some salicylic acid on it yesterday. Not easy to put make-up on that without making it look worse, so I just put a tiny amount of foundation on it. And the good news is the interview went well and I have a new client!
There are some fantastic tips here, and I am very grateful to those of you who responded. And I vow here and now to do my best to NEVER pick again!!! |
Is there anything like that over the counter or over the internet? |
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To Love and to be Loved... what greator Joy can there be? |
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Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:36 am |
| I use Queen Helene Mask and spot treat them on zits and they seem to diminish themselves in 2-3 days! |
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