SarahVaughter;3292 wrote: I mean the red crusts your photos called "Left" that you emailed me.
How long have you had them unhealed like that? There are also some indented scars on your photos. Not many and not deep, but scars.
Well, the left ones are pretty old already: - two to three months ago or so. They were all from huge cystic acnes. Also, they all managed to form a head somehow, but I didn't extract them properly, (they all formed a head few times ie. repeatedly [a day after another head appears etc] even though at the time, I thought I did the proper steps by: cleaning hands with dettol, extracting with the rounded loop of a comedone remover (bad move!) and applying clay mask (from blackhead removal video) and benzoyl peroxide) as I did with my right cheek.
For my right cheek, I applied a warm compress over my cystic acne (which eventually formed a head), disinfected my hands etc with isopropyl alcohol, got a super tiny needle and disinfected it too, pricked it from the side of the cyst parallel to the skin, drained it out using more warm compresses (all tissues, so no infection), applied antiseptic cream instead of benzoyl peroxide. (read that from somewhere)
Perhaps it's (my right being better) due to the extraction, or that my right cheek was naturally better than my left. From past experience, the left cheek was more prone to slight blemishes even when I only extracted blackheads (for both sides using the same method)
My cheeks used to be clear of any blemishes/acne until recently pff. -.- It used to be only my forehead, which mainly has scars from 3-4 years ago. I still get a couple of zits on my forehead, but they're relatively mild now.
And yeah, I do realise I have a couple of indented scars, but they don't seem to bother me as much as the hyperpigmentated skin, as well as the orange-peel-like skin and discolouration on my forehead (which becomes really apparent, when I feel stressed, my skin gets inflamed/hot/sweaty etc)
At the moment, I'll try to fix those issues first as I'm running out of time because I'll be going to a foreign country for college/university. I doubt I'll be able to maintain the same dermarolling routine there.