- I don't like that.
Who would do this, who made this?
Let me talk to them.
- [Emily] So that's a no on the pimple popper?
- It's a no but then I keep going back in.
(upbeat music)
- That's pretty good.
- Oh, it's so much.
- I never heard about the Pop It Pal.
- I thought, why did this product even exist?
And we're gonna get one.
- I need to know what this is about.
- The pop it pal seems like a way
to get that satisfaction of popping a pimple
without dirtying up your pores.
- My boyfriend gets a lot of blackheads.
I squeeze the blackheads out of his face
and he's like, that's disgusting.
- I find it really satisfying to pop a pimple.
It's like a little bit of (pops).
It feels like I accomplished something.
- I love picking pimples.
I still watch videos of Sandra Lee, Doctor Pimple Popper.
- I watch to help me fall asleep.
- I actually can't watch pimple popping videos.
It freaks me out.
- After I stopped wanting to throw up,
I was like, come on, Sandra, get it out, get it out.
So satisfying.
- Watching pimple popping is very soothing.
It's just (sighs) so good.
- It looks kind of like spam
that's been left out.
- [Andrew] It just feels like plastic.
It's a little slimy.
- This seems very scientific.
- Squeeze with two fingers to pop the pimple
and have fun.
You can refill it, so you can do it over and over again.
- I'm about to pop my first pimple.
- Oh, it's coming.
- [Andrew] This is a good one.
Look at on my nail.
- It's not the same, but it is satisfying.
I'm a little grossed out, yeah.
But the pus is very satisfying.
- We're gonna be taking these home.
We're gonna see if it's as good
as popping a real pimple.
- Hopefully, it'll help me keep my fingers off my face.
Wonder if this is meant for adults, 'cause this is hard.
This pimple popper and I had quite the weekend.
I introduced it to my girlfriend.
Hey babe, you wanna pop a pimple?
- What?
- She equally hated it and loved it.
- Oh no.
Oh my God.
I keep doing it.
- She was visibly and verbally hating on it
but she also couldn't stop popping it.
- That was a good one.
- [Emily] You keep doing it.
- I know.
- Walking around the office,
they were like, hey, what's that in your hand?
- [JJ's boss] Oh my God, so much, oh my God.
It's gross but amazing at the same time.
- [JJ] Would you buy one?
- Yes.
- So that was my boss and she was obsessed with it.
- My friends and I, we got brunch and stuff.
- Cheers.
- I'm gonna show my friend Katelyn here.
I had her close her eyes and everything.
She was like, what is this?
She was like, is this a bar of soap,
and I'm like, it's kind of the opposite.
- [Katelyn] Pop them?
- [Andrew] Yeah, like a pimple.
- Wait, there's things in there?
- Yeah, there's pus.
She loves popping pimples.
(Katelyn squeals)
And she fell in love with it.
- [Katelyn] Oh my God, there's so much.
- Everybody in the bar was looking at us.
They were like, what are they playing with?
- It's like a stress outlet for me
and being able to pop those just literally brought
life to my life.
- My roommates were also interested in it.
They weren't as disgusted.
- I think it's lip balm.
- It says, "Do not eat," on the package, I saw it.
- I'm not eating it.
- One of my roommates actually put the pus on her lips
to moisturize. - Cool.
- Mariah found out that it works really well as a lip balm.
I was really surprised, my roommate Mitch liked it a lot.
- This to me is somehow satisfying.
- Mitch is a very pretty boy.
He likes to take very good care of himself,
so seeing him play with a pimple popper
was kind of funny.
- When I got home, my boyfriend,
who's a medical student, is studying.
I told him I had a surprise for him.
- Is it something I'm gonna like?
- Maybe.
So I handed it to him, and--
you know those pimple videos I like watching?
This lets you pretend to pop pimples.
- Why would anyone want to do this?
Ugh, oh, it jumps out at you.
(makes disgusted noises)
that's so fucking gross.
- Yeah, he hates it when I pop his zits,
but when we were doing it together,
he was explaining to me all the medical terminology.
- [Boyfriend] Follicular hyperproliferation, inflammation,
the presence of excessive sebum production.
- I buy everything travel size.
Oh my God, it's so cute,
I could bring this with me everywhere.
Whatever, who cares what people think?
I think I'm gonna pop some pimples on the high line.
Guys, there's nothing better
than just popping a couple pimples
while having a view of New York City.
This totally relieved my stress.
Pus kept coming and coming and coming out of them.
- I think I'm starting to kind of like it,
but it doesn't fight back like a pimple fights back.
- Yeah, that's what I was saying.
- We had a little adventure
because we wanted to refill it.
Place pimple pus in microwave for 10 seconds.
- We don't have a microwave.
- It's fun to pop, but then I get anxious
because I know I have to refill it again.
Refilling it, it just was disastrous.
I cut a hole at the top of this
to try to get the pus in.
This cracked.
Resorted to just pushing it inside each little hole.
So it starts to make me cringe a little bit.
I just see all these little gouges.
I don't even wanna pick my own pimples
anymore because I just think of this.
- The pimple popper didn't really work for me.
It actually may have made my
pimple popping activities worse.
- [Girlfriend] What are you doing?
You're supposed to use this so that you don't--
- That doesn't get rid of my actual pimples.
Talking about it so much made me look at my face
and see how many pimples I actually have.
Do you see those?
- I think my boyfriend was glad that
I was popping this instead of his face.
Wanna pop some pimples with me?
- No.
- Go play with your Pop It, not my face.
Why not? - 'Cause it's gross.
- It kind of distracted me from
the blackheads on his forehead.
- The best thing the pimple popper brought me
was new friends on the subway.
So I was just popping during my commute
'cause I wanted to chill out,
and this guy just came up to me
and was like, what are you doing?
Normally, you don't talk to anyone on the train.
Everyone's trying to be tough,
so it was cool to have this small conversation with people
over something silly and kind of gross.
We started talking about pimple popper videos
and they're like, oh I love those,
and I'm like, gross, but I'm the one fake popping pimples
on the train, so.
- I learned that it's just a really polarizing subject.
For someone that has that kind of obsession
with wanting to pop stuff,
this is a better alternative 'cause you're
not gonna hurt your skin.
- Everybody who pops pimples
should try this product because it really changes
the way that you feel about pimple popping.
Being this up and close with it
made me really think about how I should be
treating my own skin.
I would give it five out of five
if this little eyedropper worked better.
- It's going to get a reaction out of people,
whether they like it or hate it.
- I don't think that we should
be disgusted by our own biology.
Everyone gets zits and we should celebrate that
instead of shunning it.
I'm surprised that this hasn't been on Shark Tank yet,
honestly, 'cause I think that there's a huge market for it.
- It's like my little pus-y baby.