This week’s beauty tip came straight from a text from my good friend Nat in Sri Lanka – thanks for the tip, Nat!
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!
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hmnnn i dunno if that would really work but i COVET this chicks hair! like in the city i totally ignore everything she says and just stare at her hair, im so jealous of it haha
She does have awesome hair … but I covet her LENGTH even more. Why oh why did I get that horrible haircut back in September? It’s taking ages to grow!!!
oh my gosh im exactly in the same place right now, my hair is at that stupid length where you can’t do anything with it. im resisting the temptation to hack it off cuz i want it to get long!
I feel your pain! It sucks… I think mine isn’t growing too fast cause there are some bits that are completely damaged so they are breaking off. Yikes.
I’m trying a coconut oil scalp massage thingy at home that might help – I did it a year ago and my hair grew so fast it was amazing… so I’m trying again! All you need is pure coconut oil, then saturate your whole head in it, massage your scalp and then wash off. Worth a try eh?! I was thinking extensions as a last resort but they are so expensive
at this point i will try anything, haha. *adds coconut oil to shopping list*
Thanks for the tip, I had never heard of it. It sounds weird but I’m curious to try it next time I have a zit and see how well it works
Hey Gio! Same here, I’ll wait for a zit and see how it goes. I can’t really see the logic behind it though, if it’s just the sticky part of the bandaid isn’t it just glue?! Haha.
I’ve heard of many ways to zap a zit, but this thing with the band aid is the first! Like you Renee, I’ll try it out when one of those nasty thing pops up. I’ve heard of people rubbing their saliva on their zits, don’t know if that works, it just doesn’t sound very hygenic to me!
Saliva?? Yikes. It sounds VERY unhygenic indeed…I won’t be trying that one, I’m afraid
Isn’t saliva anti-bacterial? Or at least partially? I think I’ve done it before, without any positive or negative effects.
But I should try this band-aid thing! I wonder how it would work on sensitive skin though, with the whole peeling off thing…
Yup, I think it’s very little though? I don’t know, it may work but it seems a little ‘dirty’ to me haha.
You should try it out the band aid method and let us know how it goes! I’m waiting for a massive zit to erupt then I’ll try it out and tell you all about it!
Tried it, and I’m not sure it did much. It might depend on the TYPE of band-aid used though; I used one that has a cloth-like backing to it, as opposed to those plastic-y ones. It might also work differently on different zits. I definitely know that I would not want to try it on any zits that have a head, as I can see that easily tearing some/all of the whitehead off and causing more damage.
I’ll try it out again tonight though with both band-aid types. I have about 4-5 small blemishes that I’ve been trying to get rid of for a while, so I’ll see if the band-aids work better than my spot treatment alternative (calamine lotion haha). I really hope it works, and will comment again with the results!
What a tip! I am definitely trying this out the next time a pimple pops out!
Let me know how it goes, Yani – I am very curious about this as well and will be trying it out too!
I tried this last night and it seemed to work, but who knows if it was a coincidence or not! I’ll probably try it again tonight.
I’m curious if it has to do with temperature or pressure from all of the bandaids… hmm.
Hey Aerienne, thanks for trying it out and letting us all know!
It might be from the pressure, what do you think? I can’t figure it out but I have a feeling that it really does work… still gonna have to try it myself!
hmm could it have anything to do with cutting the oxygen supply to the zit for it to die basically?? i know it sounds realli stupid but hey all things need oxygen to grow and stay alive basically…
Totally! I think that may have to do with it. That it’s pressed down, lack of oxygen … I wonder if the band aid itself has something in it? I know the white bit has antiseptic but the sticky bit might have something; though I think it’s just a tape, right? Ah! I really don’t know!
This actually seems like a bad idea to me…I thought pores needed to “breathe,” especially if they’re already clogged/infected. I’ve read stuff on cleansers about oxygenating pores for clearer skin. Anyway, my big advice with this is to be careful that the adhesive doesn’t irritate your skin! I had blood taken at the doctor’s office and they slapped on a band-aid that left a weird rash for a couple of days. Luckily it was only on my arm.
I recommend using Neosporin or whatever triple antibiotic ointment on zits, especially if they’ve popped or been picked at (…guilty…). Put the ointment on and then cover with a band-aid and go to bed. this should speed up healing and moisturize the area for easier cover up.
I’ve found that with mine I don’t want to use neosporin unless I’ve really messed with’m and my skin in irritated/torn up because the vaseline-y part of it will clog my pores worse. occasionally I get really dry lips and put a tiny bit of neosporin on’m before I go to bed and then I get break outs around my mouth!!
This method works. I’ve used the bandaid treatment for about 3 years – just make sure you put it on a zit that does NOT have a white head. The zit will go away in about a week – or less!
I’ll try this tonight. I think it might work because with the bandaid on it I won’t be touching it and transferring oils from my fingers to it. also, when you take the bandaids off you probably exfoliate your skin some
Putting the adhesive part of a band aid over a pimple works! I have done this for years and just used this method last week. It brings the infection to the surface. Sometimes if I am developing a larger pimple, I will leave the adhesive on for a few days and repeat the procedure until all the infection is gone. Always make sure to apply antiseptic (my favorites are: rubbing alcohol, witch hazel or hydrogen peroxide) over the infected area!!!
I can also vouch for the band aid method, sort of. I haven’t tried using the adhesive part but I used a band-aid the normal way to cover my deep rooted blemish while I slept last night and this morning it had greatly reduced in size and doesn’t hurt when I press on it like it did yesterday. My husband gets nasty bug bites that swell up with venom (lots of bugs in PR) and he simply covers them with a band-aid and it sucks out all of the nastiness inside overnight. Never thought to try this with zits until he made the suggestion and so far I can vouch for this method. All I know is that the band-aid pad is sterile and it somehow seems to draw out junk. Now we need to invent and market band-aids specifically for zits! we’ll be millionaires!
Hey, I just tried something like this from another website, but they say to put vinegar on the pimple, then just put a round waterproof bandaid over it. It looks like it works, but I only did it one day on a huge cyst and you know how evil those things are. But when I take the bandaid off, it seems all the vinegar and pimple stuff is stuck to the bandaid pad. Interesting, no?
Works like a charm! Gonna be using this technique again tonight!
This does work. It works better if you put a treatment underneath the bandaid with a Q-tip and then apply the bandaid (I don’t bother cutting it up). The reason why it works is because it prevents bacteria from getting into the pimple and making it worse. There are so many microorganisms on your pillow and sheets and floating in the air (especially if you have pets) and it can settle on the pimple and make them worse. The bandaid protects this from happening.
What I do is apply a tad of tea tree oil with a Q-tip (pure tea tree oil dries up a pimple VERY quickly) and then apply the bandaid overnight. In the morning, big pimples have reduced and small pimples are completely gone.
Tried this again last night with a cloth backing band-aid and a regular band-aid, and then used my sulfur spot treatment on a few other blemishes. I found that the band-aids DID work better this time! I think it might have to do with the moisturizer I was testing out, which might have worsened the spots. Anyway, I prefer the regular band-aids as they are a little less sticky, so peeling them off doesn’t really leave any red marks or irritation. I would say that the band-aid method is going to work at the same (perhaps slightly slower) rate as conventional spot treatments, but it isn’t drying at all! So for anyone with dry skin or with allergies/sensitivities to most acne medications, band-aids are a cheap and useful product to use on a nasty, whitehead-free zit.
Will definitely be adding band-aids to my list of unconventional spot treatments for my face!