Make Up Games and Zits

It will happen to everyone. One morning you’ll wake up and find yourself covered with zits or, more likely facing a single red dot on your chin, nose or forehead. Battling zits can make make-up games much less fun to enjoy and can even make it hard to play those make up games if the zit is painful enough.

Never Pop Zits
Some zits remain as a red dot or even the same color as your skin. Others have raised centers full of white puss. It is extremely tempting to pop a zit, especially once a head is visible. The red and white zip seems to be screaming for intervention, but stop yourself if you can. Popping zits and pimples for that matter is not a good idea. When you pop the zit, you could force some of the gunk back into your pores or introduce new dirt and bacteria through your fingers. These gross things can actually inflame and even infect the zit. In short it will look worse after popping it than it did previously.

Cover Them or Let Them Heal
This leaves you with two choices. If you can’t pop a zit, what do you do with them? You can conceal the zit or you can leave it open to the air to “breathe.” Covering a zit is easy enough. Concealer will leave a dot of color on top of the zit. Blend it into your foundation and dust with powder and your zit is covered.

The other option is to let the zit breathe. Once your zit has a head or is open and seems to have an exposed pore, it would be far better to let the zit sit uncovered so that it can heal properly. Putting make up over an open sore, which is similar to what a popped or raw zit would be, is asking for an infection or another outbreak. Remember, zits can be caused by make up trapped in the pores. Don’t encourage more zits by forcing goo and gunk down into an already inflamed pore.