This week’s beauty tip came straight from a text from my good friend Nat in Sri Lanka – thanks for the tip, Nat! (And if you have any other tips to share of Beauty Tip of the Week, e-mail me).
Reality TV star Olivia Palermo from The City (isn’t she beautiful?) says that she has a great way to zap a zit. She cuts the sticky part of a Band Aid up into pieces and layer it 3 to 4 times over a pimple before bed, and in the morning the pimple is gone.
I have to admit, I love when I hear a beauty tip I’ve never heard before – and this is one of them. I can’t vouch if this works right now, but do tell me what you think – have you done this before, and does it work? I’ll have to wait for a gross zit to pop up before I can try this out myself! 
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hmnnn i dunno if that would really work but i COVET this chicks hair! like in the city i totally ignore everything she says and just stare at her hair, im so jealous of it haha
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She does have awesome hair … but I covet her LENGTH even more. Why oh why did I get that horrible haircut back in September? It’s taking ages to grow!!!
oh my gosh im exactly in the same place right now, my hair is at that stupid length where you can’t do anything with it. im resisting the temptation to hack it off cuz i want it to get long!
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I feel your pain! It sucks… I think mine isn’t growing too fast cause there are some bits that are completely damaged so they are breaking off. Yikes.
I’m trying a coconut oil scalp massage thingy at home that might help – I did it a year ago and my hair grew so fast it was amazing… so I’m trying again! All you need is pure coconut oil, then saturate your whole head in it, massage your scalp and then wash off. Worth a try eh?! I was thinking extensions as a last resort but they are so expensive
at this point i will try anything, haha. *adds coconut oil to shopping list*
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Thanks for the tip, I had never heard of it. It sounds weird but I’m curious to try it next time I have a zit and see how well it works
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Hey Gio! Same here, I’ll wait for a zit and see how it goes. I can’t really see the logic behind it though, if it’s just the sticky part of the bandaid isn’t it just glue?! Haha.
I’ve heard of many ways to zap a zit, but this thing with the band aid is the first! Like you Renee, I’ll try it out when one of those nasty thing pops up. I’ve heard of people rubbing their saliva on their zits, don’t know if that works, it just doesn’t sound very hygenic to me!
Saliva?? Yikes. It sounds VERY unhygenic indeed…I won’t be trying that one, I’m afraid
Isn’t saliva anti-bacterial? Or at least partially? I think I’ve done it before, without any positive or negative effects.
But I should try this band-aid thing! I wonder how it would work on sensitive skin though, with the whole peeling off thing…
Yup, I think it’s very little though? I don’t know, it may work but it seems a little ‘dirty’ to me haha.
You should try it out the band aid method and let us know how it goes! I’m waiting for a massive zit to erupt then I’ll try it out and tell you all about it!
Tried it, and I’m not sure it did much. It might depend on the TYPE of band-aid used though; I used one that has a cloth-like backing to it, as opposed to those plastic-y ones. It might also work differently on different zits. I definitely know that I would not want to try it on any zits that have a head, as I can see that easily tearing some/all of the whitehead off and causing more damage.
I’ll try it out again tonight though with both band-aid types. I have about 4-5 small blemishes that I’ve been trying to get rid of for a while, so I’ll see if the band-aids work better than my spot treatment alternative (calamine lotion haha). I really hope it works, and will comment again with the results!
Tried this again last night with a cloth backing band-aid and a regular band-aid, and then used my sulfur spot treatment on a few other blemishes. I found that the band-aids DID work better this time! I think it might have to do with the moisturizer I was testing out, which might have worsened the spots. Anyway, I prefer the regular band-aids as they are a little less sticky, so peeling them off doesn’t really leave any red marks or irritation. I would say that the band-aid method is going to work at the same (perhaps slightly slower) rate as conventional spot treatments, but it isn’t drying at all! So for anyone with dry skin or with allergies/sensitivities to most acne medications, band-aids are a cheap and useful product to use on a nasty, whitehead-free zit.
Will definitely be adding band-aids to my list of unconventional spot treatments for my face!
What a tip! I am definitely trying this out the next time a pimple pops out!
Let me know how it goes, Yani – I am very curious about this as well and will be trying it out too!
I tried this last night and it seemed to work, but who knows if it was a coincidence or not! I’ll probably try it again tonight.
I’m curious if it has to do with temperature or pressure from all of the bandaids… hmm.
Hey Aerienne, thanks for trying it out and letting us all know!
It might be from the pressure, what do you think? I can’t figure it out but I have a feeling that it really does work… still gonna have to try it myself!
hmm could it have anything to do with cutting the oxygen supply to the zit for it to die basically?? i know it sounds realli stupid but hey all things need oxygen to grow and stay alive basically…
Totally! I think that may have to do with it. That it’s pressed down, lack of oxygen … I wonder if the band aid itself has something in it? I know the white bit has antiseptic but the sticky bit might have something; though I think it’s just a tape, right? Ah! I really don’t know!