Guy’s I know everyone says you shouldn’t pop any blemishes/pimples on your face and while I understand it in theory I still do it. It’s bad – I really can’t help myself! If we’re being honest, which we always are here, you know you do it occasionally.
My worst is when you’ve gone to town on your face, it looks like a massacre and you then look at yourself all red and blotchy and regret ever touching your face. It’s never just one pimple, when I start I just can’t stop. I don’t do this often because I really do know how bad it is for my skin but when I do I have a few products that I know will sooth, calm and balance my skin. So I thought I’s stop being selfish and share them with you!
Once you’ve popped those suckers, there’s a huge red inflamed spot where a pimple used to be but you’re still left with a big attention whore on your face. These products will help to stop anymore crap from getting into your face while you sleep (most pimple popping missions happen before bed).
Here are the real modern day hero’s:
Skin Creamery The Everyday Cream (R275): This is quite a thick, extremely moisturising cream that does wanders for my skin. It has an almost herbal, natural scent that is noticeable by even LéFiancé. Along with this being my day and night cream it reduces inflammation around those nasty buggers and pulls any extra crap that shouldn’t be there.
Skoon Skin Ruby Marine Overnight Hydrating Mask (R420): I took this with me for my Durban trip and I may or may not have squeezed a little something on my face and it was all big and inflamed and desperately needed something to sooth it. This is an extremely moisturising coconut based mask that leaves your skin feeling supple and plump (in a good way). And best of all, the next morning all it took was a little concealing to cover the scab.
Aesop Parsley Seed Mask (R495): This is my favourite mask of them all. I use this atleast once a week and when I forget to I can see the difference in my skin. This is especially great for post pimple popping because it sooths the inflammation, sucks out any bad crap & stops anything else from getting in. I leave this on for a good 10 minutes and when it comes off my skin feels amazing!
Do you have any post pimple popping remedies?
2 comments
I so needed this! I fall into the trap all the time! I really like sebumasque by Environ, it has tea tree oil for the nasties, but it’s very gentle on the skin too.
I’m so happy that this was helpful to you!! 🙂
Oh I haven’t tried that – I’ll put it on my list!
Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂 x