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ok i nedd help like now please please please.
ok right well my skin is normally so good its always been soft and clear but when i do get a spot i get one HUGE one and for the past 2 days my faces has gone into total breakdown.... i have like 4 spots and theyre quite red and then i have an old on ethats not a spot anymore but a red scarwhat do i do!!???? im going out to dinner with loadsa friends tonight and i dont know what to do please tell me the best thing that will get rid of them in like 8 hours please im just drinking water and not wearign any make-up as a detox but please help a fast spot clearing hting and i dunno if i can pop down the shops just anything please!!!!!!! sorry long but ill rate really high
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it might be you are sweating out an illness like a flu that you caught and your skin is reacting to it.
id recommend seeing a doctor to be sure
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Am I to assume these "spots" are pimples? Or are they something else?
Whatever they are, if you're trying to do something to help them for tonight's dinner, there may not be anything you can do to actually get rid of them in a few hours. However, I do have a few suggestions that may help for tonight if you can't make it to a pharmacy before your dinner:
1) Use a warm to hot compress - hot water on a washcloth and hold it to each spot for a short while. If these are pimples, that will hopefullly calm down the redness and make them come to a head. If they aren't pimples, you might want to try a cold water compress, but I'd still try the hot water one first.
2) After the compress: If you have meat tenderizer in your kitchen cabinets, wet each spot with water and then put the meat tenderizer on each spot and leave it there for quite a while. This works well with insect bites as it takes away the pain and itch AND reduces the redness and swelling. Maybe it will work with your spots - pimples or not.
3) After the meat tenderizer, of if you don't have meat tenderizer, then use this after the compresses: Most homes have a tube of Neosporin - antibiotic ointment - or something similar. Since pimples are infections, many doctors recommend using an antibiotic ointment to help get rid of the infection.
4) After you've done all of the above, using things that are hopefully in your house, then dab a little make-up on each spot, let it dry, and then put make-up on your entire face. I think it's good that you've not been wearing make-up to help keep your face clean, but for tonight, I think it will be just fine and will certainly help hide the redness of these spots. Make sure you clean your face thoroughly once you are home after the dinner.
-- Oh, I just Googled home remedies for acne so I'll share a little of what I found. Aloe vera should help your skin heal and lesson redness and swelling. If you have any pure aloe gel in your house, apply it to your skin after washing. And then there is this: A paste of the spice nutmeg & water or a paste of nutmeg & milk should help the affected areas. (NOTE: These nutmeg remedies were actually suggested for a 3-day cure, but you might still want to try either one.) --
For future reference:
It will probably do you some good to use the Neosporin each night before you go to bed. Two acne treatments that I've found to be quite helpful are: Clearsil which usually does a great job of drying up the pimple (I often use the tinted one so that it helps cover up the redness); and, Clean & Clear Blemish Treatment which has the ingredient Salicylic Acid which is something dermatologists highly recommend for blemishes. Clean & Clear also makes a wonderful blemish cover-up in different shades of skin tones. It is supposed to help heal as it acts as a cover-up. I use this all of the time. I put a little on each blemish before I put on my make-up, and sometimes a little after the make-up is on my face. (The little tube is like a long, skinny lip gloss tube and is easy enough to keep in a purse for touch-ups.) I've also used it when I'm not wearing make-up and just make sure it is well blended into my skin. There is a Clean & Clear acne treatment wash that is good for thorough cleansing. Nowadays there are SO many acne washes avaiable and most of them contain the salicylic acid because it works so well. Depending on your budget, you might want to buy any of the brands that are out there.
Since I don't really know what kind of blemishes you're talking about, I hope that I've helped a little. I think that no matter what kind of blemish you have, the steps I mentioned above should help any kind of blemish in a pinch. Maybe other people have better ways of dealing with something like this - especially if you need to do something as fast as you do and aren't able to get to a drug store. Good luck! Have a great time with your friends tonight. And think about this too, if you're getting together with "loads of friends," then 1) all the action that will be going on will more than likely distract everyone and no one will notice your spots, and 2) these are your friends and I'm sure they go through the same thing and will not think a thing of this. Still, I understand how you feel, so again, I hope my suggestions help, even if just a little.
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