I will not prick/pop/squeeze/pluck my blackheads again!
I had an unstoppable week-long self-mutilation of squeezing/pricking/popping/plucking blackheads on my face with my laura mercier tweezer.
It started with a few small blackheads. Then the pricking turned the blackheads into a cluster of red swollen papules, but it wouldn't stop me from popping them. So I went on and on until these papules started to take over my once zit-less, smooth face.
"They'll go. No biggie." I was in a foul mood but I was still, well, hopeful.
But a day past, a week went by. The papules hadn't gone down a bit. They were so bad that even my cle de peau cream foundation wouldn't help.
I started to panick. I rushed to my derm. He lectured me for my self-mutilating behaviour and put me on antibiotics to clear the infection.
This is DAY 2 and I'm already seeing some improvement. The redness has gone down by a notch but the medication has left me feeling so lethargic and grumpy.
Few more days to go til I finish the whole course, but it'll just be the beginning of my road to recovery (i.e. getting rid of the scars)
It's ok... My skin will heal - like it always has.
But why, oh why am I doing this to myself...over and over again?
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