Ah, spots. No matter how diligent a skincare routine one has, for those who are acne-prone, blemishes are a fact of life and can only negotiated with, mitigated, and avoided as best we can. Until they develop a medication that reduces my stress, allows me to eat whatever I want without a care for dietary sensitivities, completely stabilizes my hormones, and gives me the benefits of 8 hours of sleep on 3 hours a night- I will have breakouts.
The question then becomes: what do we do with them? As you may know if you are a longtime follower of my blog, I have very congested skin. My pores are always blocked and threatening to erupt into angry blemishes that fight their way to the surface and then try to scar afterwards, and since starting AHA a few months ago, I have had some pretty serious purges. Closed comedones deep under the surface which I thought I would have to have a derm remove with a sharp object surfaced and are gone without a trace.
Sometimes though, they need help, and not the picking-at-your-skin kind. So far, the best spot treatments I have found for healing blemishes
after they have opened is hydrocolloid bandages (
reviewed here), but when it came to bringing things to a head faster, I was at a loss. Worse, these blocked pores were usual so painful and irritating that it became impossible not to unconsciously poke at my face, which worsened the whole situation.
Enter the
Mizon Acence Blemish Out Pink Spot treatment, which I found surprisingly effective in drawing things up into a head much faster and with less damage.
To be honest, I had heard bad things about the 'pink powder' treatments, that they were just drying out the blemish, they were pretty much just alcohol, etc, etc. As usual, though, I obsessively researched this product before buying it, and decided to give it a try.
Read on for how it panned out!
