hi it's Michelle from lab muffin beauty science chemistry PhD and acne prone
skin owner at the end of July this year I went to Jakarta Indonesia to
participate in Jakarta X Beauty thank you so much to Female Daily Network who
run this event for sponsoring me and collaborating on this video
Jakarta X Beauty is a three-day event in Central Jakarta that brings together
brands, beauty content creators and beauty lovers the event was spread
across three venues with 120 brands participating there's lots of shopping
deals and promotions there's also loads of interesting talks with over 80
speakers participating this year I did two talks one was on hyperpigmentation
with Kae we talked about the difference between brightening and whitening and
how to safely even out your skin tone I also did a talk about acne with Dr
Arini we talked about different types of acne what contributes to acne and how
to treat different types of acne as well one of the things we talked about was
how to squeeze a pimple properly or by properly we mean with the least amount
of damage because officially you shouldn't squeeze your pimples you
should go to a dermatologist who can do it properly with the least amount of
risk because if you don't squeeze a pimple right it can lead to scarring and
further infection but of course we live in the real world where people squeeze
their own pimples we can't all just wait the three-month waiting time to go to a
dermatologist sometimes you just can't help yourself so here's how to do it
with the least amount of harm so this is a harm minimization video for what to do
if you must squeeze your pimples firstly you want to make sure you're squeezing
the right types of pimples and what this means is waiting till the pimple comes
to a head with visible pus if there's no visible pus you're
squeezing hoping that something will come out there might not actually be
anything in there to come out and so you're just squeezing and causing extra
damage for no reason
secondly this is pretty obvious but you should do it hygienically you are
opening up a wound on your skin and so you
want it to be as clean as possible what this means is clean skin and clean
fingers to clean your skin you should wash it and then wipe it with alcohol to
clean your fingers obviously you need to wash your hands you can also wear gloves
and you can also cover your fingernails with a bit of tissue and so that gives
you a better grip as well you can also use cotton buds instead to do the
squeezing the next thing you want is to lance your pimple before you squeeze it
and what this means is to stab it with a needle so that there's a passageway for
the pus to come out the needle should be sharp so that you make a hole as small
as possible without causing extra damage from pressure the needle should
obviously also be clean so you can use a brand new needle out of a sterile
package you can also sterilize a needle yourself so for example you can pass it
through a flame and wipe it down with alcohol so here's something that was new
to me you should lance your pimple at an angle if you stab it straight down
what you might be doing is introducing pus at the surface deeper into the
pimple you want to lance it add an angle or even better horizontally so that
there's no chance of the pus going deeper into uninfected skin when you're
squeezing you don't want to use too much pressure if you use too much pressure
you're causing extra damage that's unnecessary with squeezing your pimple
you should stop when clear liquid or blood comes out when all the pus is out
finally once you finish squeezing wipe it off with either a clean piece of
tissue or even an alcohol pad and you can also cover it up with a bandage for
example a hydrocolloid bandage to stop any extra infection going into your
freshly cleaned pimple so those are our tips on squeezing a pimple I hope you
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and I will see you later don't squeeze too much