- Warning if you are sensitive to blood
or graphic content, this video ain't for you.
Okay y'all, so, I really like extractions.
I like watching things being extracted from people's skin.
I think it's a stress reliever.
It's very satisfying, it puts me in zen mode.
So, one day I was watching a Dr. Pimple Popper
extraction video on Facebook at work.
Chrissy gave me a little tidbit about Devin Lytle.
Ladylike member, Devin Lytle has four cysts in her scalp.
What a lovely surprise.
So, she was like, you guys should do a video.
And I'm like, I dunno if Devin would do it.
She's like, ask her, and I'm like,
it would be a dream come true.
- I'm a little nervous about doing this shoot, just because,
it's like people are going to see my cysts on camera.
If the frame can be about, like how we don't
have to be perfect and there's always going to be like,
everyone has their weird skin issues.
You know like in Sex and the City where Samantha
has to help Carrie pull out her diaphragm.
If you guys have to help me pull out my pilar cyst.
- Yeah - [Fred] Okay
- It would be like Womanhood.
- I mean, you are of course. I know you are fine with that.
- Devin revealed to me that she would participate and do it.
But she would only do it if all of Ladylike
was there in the room with her for emotional support.
Hmmm, what a conundrum, Chantel doesn't want to watch that.
- I don't want to do this video at all.
- [Devin] If Kris is not doing it, I'm not doing it.
- Kristin everyone came to your wedding.
- Okay, coming to my wedding isn't the same thing,
as me going to get your cysts lanced.
- I've had many a cyst in my life and its been removed
but I don't feel the need to watch it or interact with it.
Cause, I just don't want to. I don't.
- [Fred] So everyone eventually agreed to go,
however Kristin wasn't able to go
because she was recovering from surgery.
So it was just the four of us going
and you don't understand how excited I was.
I ended up having a phone call with Rachael
who is Dr. Lee's assistant, we scheduled everything out
and then we went to her office!
- [Devin] It's Monday morning, like 8 o'clock in the morning
and I dragged the girls to my Pimple Popper
appointment in Upland, California.
Upland, California is like 40 minutes
outside of Los Angeles so we all had to get up early
to get to this appointment, I'm sure they love me.
- We're about to go in for Devin's procedure.
I don't know how long I'm gonna last.
I'm just a squeamish person, it's not that cysts
and anything are gross, I had a cyst here
and I've had lipomas and I get
sebaceous cysts on my eyes all the time.
I'm not good with blood and I hope I don't faint.
I don't think I will, I've only
fainted a couple of times in my life.
Hopefully this isn't going to be one of them.
- It's happening.
- Hi, Dr. Lee. - Hi, how are you?
- I'm Devin. - Thanks for coming out here.
- Thank you for handling my cysts.
- Hi, my name is Dr. Sandra Lee.
I'm a board certified dermatologist in Southern California.
But people also know me as Dr. Pimple Popper.
What is Dr. Pimple Popper mean?
It just means that people know that, they come from wide
and far for me to pop their pimples essentially.
I'm going to be working with Ladylike
and I'm going to be doing a procedure on Devin.
- So I have four pilar cysts, I call them my unicorn horns.
I know what they are because I've been dealing with them
for like most of my adult life.
What's your definition of a pilar cyst?
- Well a pilar cyst, is a type of cyst
that usually occurs on the scalp about 90% of the time.
It's something that often people when get,
they get more than one and so what happens
is essentially, I try to explain it to people as like
part of your skin kinda gets trapped under there
and forms a little balloon under the skin.
So what happens is that, you know our skin sheds normally,
but now it's shedding into this
little balloon under the skin.
There's nowhere for it to go so it grows.
I knew that people would be really interested
in the things that we do in dermatology.
It's a very visual field so you know,
everything we see on the skin,
and I thought it would be really interesting and educating
for people to learn a lot about what I do and why I love it.
When I posted a blackhead extraction in particular,
I noticed a jump in attention and through all that
I discovered that there is a community of people and people
were loving these videos and sharing with each other.
It's not anything that should make you feel bad
about yourself so I think it's really nice that you bought
your girlfriends to give you support and hold your hand.
- First off, I really wanted to meet you
because I am a popaholic,
I do watch a lot of popping videos.
I find them massively cathartic
but also I wanted to do this just to highlight
that the human body is complex and amazing,
and also there is nothing to be ashamed about
especially if you have a cyst because you can't control it.
- And you know, I'm really about woman empowerment as well
and one thing that I will say about my channel
which I find so remarkable, especially in this day and time,
is that no body ever questions me.
I've never seen anybody ever say,
"why is she doing this when she's a woman".
- Dr. Lee was amazing, she was so chill, she was so nice,
very into the whole idea of female empowerment
and making sure that we got across
the message that this isn't gross.
This is natural, these are our bodies
and you shouldn't be ashamed of it.
- I think I'm going to be checking in on Chantel mostly.
- [Dr. Lee] Yes, I think I will be too.
- Another piece of this Ladylike video,
is we have a little challenge, a little bet,
is to see how long Chantel can stay looking
at the procedure. I'm guessing 15 seconds.
- [Devin] Five seconds?
- The fact that she is feeling nothing,
you know really helps.
- I'm ready.
- Come meet my girls, they'll take good care of you.
- I'm excited. Let's do this, let's get the girls out.
- Okay, with Devin, she's going to come back
to one of our surgical suites where
we'll get her nice and comfortable.
It's like the Big Dipper, like the four...
- Oh, I have a little constellation on my head!
- Yes you do. We're gonna call this
the pilar cyst constellation.
- [Devin] Oh my god, I love that. I love stars and the moon.
- Whoa, wow.
- [Devin] Do you feel a little baby kick?
- Wow, I feel it.
- This is my favorite thing. I'm ready.
- [Devin] Little creep.
- We've got to get our scrubs on
so that we can be pretty much sterile
and not get any germs into the situation.
Also to protect us, because it might squirt a little bit.
Gotta be in the splash zone.
- [Dr. Lee] Looking good, all of you.
You look taller, see now we know, how tiny you really are.
- Surgery but make it fashion. - [Dr. Lee] That you have too.
- She ended up naming all four cysts
after the rest of Ladylike, which was lovely.
- [Fred] Chantel, which one are you?
- [Chantel] I'm gonna be this one
cause it's the first one that I felt.
So you never forget your first.
- [Jen] I'm the big boy. Just over here.
This is going to be Kristin and then Freddie
is right over here, the little bean.
- I feel like I'm your husband, like when you give birth.
- The first thing I'm gonna do is anesthetize the area.
I'm gonna use a little bit of lidocaine, a little numbing.
I'm just gonna hold my... whoa, whoa, wait, wait, stop.
- Oh my god my foot stepped on the pedal. (laughter)
- So I'm just gonna but a little bit of numbing here,
okay, everybody's ready? Okay? Just a little baby pinch.
- I didn't feel that at all. - Good, you shouldn't feel it.
- Devin seems pretty at ease, she had me there,
she had Chantel there and she had Jen there.
All for emotional support so that was great.
- So I would like to point out,
Devin is taking my hand to her cheek, I'm not,
oh and this one. Great now we are just here.
- You did awesome, that was the worst of it.
If you can handle that piece of cake.
- Okay, cool.
- And then we're gonna sterilize the area
and then that's when we'll do the surgery.
That's when I'll get sterile, I'll start the incision
and the removal and we'll be talking to her the whole time.
If we remove more than one, we'll line them up on the tray
and so she can take a look and say her goodbyes afterwards.
We're gonna cover them up and do one at a time here.
I want to start with the bigger one.
So you make sure, I'm never hurting you or anything, okay?
- I'll scream, girl, I'll let you know.
- Oh you will? Don't scream.
- Poor Chantel, she did her best.
She was there in the room as promised but she did
have to sit down, she got a little bit woozy from the blood.
- Feeling okay over there Chantel?
- You know, we're just sitting.
- Yeah alright, that's fine. Just gonna push against you,
so just re-cyst me, get my joke? Re-cyst me.
- Oh man, I wish I could be watching this right now.
- [Jen] Whoa, holy crap.
- Devin, you're gonna be so excited to watch this later.
- Yeah, you will be.
- [Dr. Lee] She's beautiful. She's very, very cute.
- The fact that I grew these on my own,
I'm a little proud of it, I'm like.
- They're your little diamonds.
- Devin was unsure on whether she was going to get
one cyst removed or all four of the cysts removed.
And we were kind of feeling it out as we went
and so, they started off with one,
and then Dr. Lee was like, do you want to just keep going?
Do you want to just get them all out while we are here?
And Devin was like, sure, why not?
- [Devin] Chantel, how are you doing?
- [Chantel] You know, we are watching from the wings here.
- It looks like a little pearl.
- [Devin] Really? A little pearl, that's cute.
- [Dr. Lee] Okay, number two down.
- Really? Wow. Fred how are you doing?
- You're living your best life back there.
- [Fred] Yes, this is really cool.
- [Dr. Lee] This one's easy.
- [Devin] She's ready to go? - She's like hello world.
- What if I have no good video ideas after this, guys?
- I know, you might have peaked here.
- What if my cysts were like the, source of my power?
- They were the ones that were holding you down.
- They're my dragon eggs.
- They're your dragon eggs, you're Khaleesi.
- I was filming with the macro lens, the close up camera
because I insisted, because this is my thing
and I'm very into it. It was cool seeing how Dr. Lee
sort of navigated the scalp, did the little incision,
popped it right out with her thumbs.
I mean, if it wasn't against safety rules,
I would have asked if I could have done one myself.
- This is the last one.
- This one is. - This one is Chantel?
- [Dr. Lee] I feel like I should mix them up
and you should guess who is who.
- Oh yeah, let's do that, let's play that game afterwards.
- [Dr. Lee] Can you see it now? - Oh my God.
- I did not realize they would be solid, I thought it
would be just sort of filled with pus. That's crazy
- And it's not pus either, pus is technically
like an infection and this is just wet skin cells
stuck under there for however long she has had it.
Alright, we are done. - Really, I'm done?
I can't believe all my cysts are gone.
- I don't want you sad. - No.
- It took less than 30 minutes for her
to get all four cysts removed.
Which I was shocked by, I mean, they popped right out.
- Devin, how was it? - It was pretty easy.
It was painless actually, I didn't feel a thing.
I'm ready to meet my children. Oh my goodness.
- This is the internal contents that squeezed out.
You see this is the actual, that's the skin cells.
- [Ladylike Member] It looks like a little pill pocket.
- It's like the texture of an olive.
- That's so cute.
- That one is, the one that didn't
come out, that's the stubborn one.
- [Devin] This is Jen then. This is Freddie
because it looks like a little pearl.
- Freddie, yes. You are just using all our clues.
- I've felt this one thousands of
times before, this is Kristin.
- [Jen] Devin, you know your cysts.
- I know my cysts.
- She must have been handling them a lot.
- Oh my god, it slices like a piece of chicken.
- [Crowd] Whoa, whoa. What is that? Whoa.
- [Devin] Wow, I'm a new woman.
- I think it really did bring us all together,
it brought us closer together in a very intimate way.
Especially now that there are cysts named after us.
That came out of Devin's scalp.
- You know, I feel pretty good. I feel proud of Devin.
- She did great, I'm glad that she's got
a smooth little scalp. It is always nice after the bump
is gone to just feel something nice and smooth.
- You know when you just got off a rollercoaster,
and you were like a little nervous at first
but then you just feel like delighted
and like you can take over the world,
that's how I feel now. That was so cool.
- New scalp, who dis? Thank you so much
Dr. Lee for everything.
- You're so welcome, that was awesome.
You were a great patient, it was a piece of cake, right?
- Yeah it was a piece of cake. I like my little bandages.
That I have to wear for the rest of the day but yeah,
we are ready to go and attack 2018 with a new scalp.
- Conquer the world. - Conquer the world.
It's the end of the night and my bandaids need to come off
because they are driving me nuts.
- For the record, I think this is a bad idea.
- For the record, I didn't ask you.
- Ow. - [Pat] See dried blood.
You should leave those alone.
- How do I get them off though?
- You wait.
- Pat may be right about when I should take my bandaids out,
like from a medical perspective, or whatever.
But I know my hair, so Pat's not here and I'm gonna do it.
I've already taken out two.
Fuck it, this is the third one, I only have one more.
If you have a difficult situation,
if you bring humor into it, you loosen up.
Keeping that in mind, I'm going to
just dance around this bandaid with my fingers.
Okay, mother fucker. Ah. Yes.
Don't ever, ever let a man tell you
what to do with your body unless he has a medical degree,
because Pat doesn't and I'm like what the fuck.
- Devin was a champ, she was so strong throughout everything
She's really brave for exposing this part of herself.
I'm happy that we're able to show that this is not gross.
It's a part of life, it's natural.
It's a part of the human body and that women have cysts too.
Women have bodily things too.
This stuff isn't gross and you shouldn't be ashamed of it.
Also find yourself a bad crew of lady friends
who support you through everything. Even the grossest.
- Group date with Dr. Pimple Popper.
- Lady tested? - Lady a-cysted!
- [Fred] Good job Devs. - Thanks, this is weird.
- I'll show you how I feel.
(screaming)
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