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! 
I was asked a great question from N a few days ago, and I think that all of us – men and woman – can relate to. Blackheads on the nose!
I was wondering if you could write a post on blackheads especially for those on the nose. Mine are big and are very noticeable, I hate it! Are there any removal solutions for the blackheads specifically on the nose?
Though blackheads are just clogged pores and could develop anywhere on our face, those damn things seem to love setting up a tent on our noses the best.
From my research, trial and error after all these years and people I’ve talked to, extraction is the only way to really get rid of blackheads.
Squeezing isn’t recommended for zits, but if it’s tiny blackheads on your nose … I say if you dare, do it. And by little I mean little ones. I had one tiny ‘crater’ on my nose thanks to me trying to squeeze the living soul out of a big one, so trust me, get too squeeze-happy and they will scar. The good news that since blackheads are normally much smaller than zits, the scars will go away after while. But still – don’t risk getting scars, so only attempt to squeeze the smaller ones.
The trick is this: start by warming up your face so the blackheads loosen up. Remember, pores don’t open or close, but I do think warm water and it’s steam also makes the skin much more soft and easier to squeeze the gunk out.
Next, take a clean tissue and aim for one of those suckers, and gently press down, then towards the blackhead – the trick is to squeeze from “underneath” the blackhead. Tiny blackheads normally come out with ease, but if you’ve tried a few squeezes and it’s not budging, STOP. Believe me when I say this: you will start to become frustrated, will start to get obsessed and will eventually scar your face.
If squeezing doesn’t work, you can try nose stripes. I recently asked if you all still use nose strips and a few of you wrote that they do work, so it could work for you too! Basically you apply it to damp, freshly cleansed face. Leave the stripes on for 10 minutes, and gently pull off.
Another method you can try is a blackhead extractor. It looks pretty scary, but this tool is very simple. After a shower, when your face is damp and warm you position the “head” of the tool on a blackhead and gently press. The blackhead should shoot out and the blackhead vanish (for now)! I’ve tried it before and it doesn’t work too well on the bigger ones but it might work for you. Worth a try, no?
To sum it up, the only way is through getting the blackheads out, and regularly. Unfortunately you will always get blackheads – they clog up our pores, (which are always there, obviously) so there is always a chance a blackhead will form in it.
Just remember when extracting, make sure your skin is fresh from the shower and your skin is damp and warm. Also be extra careful when focusing on one blackhead – if after one ‘try’ it doesn’t budge, leave it alone. Also, if you can, getting a facial will help too – they know how to really extract it properly (although their way is always more painful!).
What do you do to get rid of blackheads? Do you have any other tips to add? And, as always, if you have a question just e-mail me and I’ll try my best to help. 
Images: eHow.com
I only ask because I found one in my drawer earlier today and it is now sitting on my face. It also reminded me how it was such a craze a few years ago! I also vaguely remember some other ones that came out for your chin and forehead too. I was more obsessed with the nose strips, but did anyone try those T-zone strips?
I don’t even think they work that well (at least from my experience, squeezing always worked better for me, hehe) but the satisfaction you get after you peel it off and see what gunk there is (even if it’s only tiny facial hair!) is really exciting; if not a little obscene.
… In other words, I think the craze has hit me again. I need to stock up! :) Does anyone still use nose strips? Do they work for you?
This may be hard to believe – but pimples have no idea they are not eyeballs! So when you have red, itchy eyes and apply eyedrops to soothe the redness, pimples will react the same way.
Tame big, angry red pimples with a few drops of eye drops on a cotton ball (or straight on it you’re lazy like me). The redness should calm down quite a bit, and reveal a more easier-to-cover-up shade of pink.
I tried this out the other week, and sure enough, it seems like the volcanic thing growing on my face calmed down a bit. Who knew?!
Trust me when I say this – I have had every zit possible. Once in a while I would get those ones that looked like mini volcanoes. I believe the correct term for it is a cystic pimple, but I call it Monster Zit.
Monster zit (n.): A large red lump on your face in a cruel area such as the middle of your nose, flat dead center of your forehead, and so on.
I think the worse one in my life would be the big red one dead center at the tip of my nose! Don’t get me started on the Rudolph jokes. What is really annoying about these kinda zits is that they have no pores, so makeup doesn’t stick to it properly and it’s hard to conceal. Thankfully after many trials and errors I have found the perfect way to cover those monsters up, so now if I do get a zit, it’s not the end of the world.
Here’s how I cover that zit. It’s not the usual way and it may cake and irritate the zit more … but desperate times calls for desperate measures!
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