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Is it safe to pop pimples? what happens after you pop them? thanks!
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You decide: Pimples are more or less simple superficial wounds on your skin surface. If you manually "pop" them, you risk expanding the scarring that will occur after healing and deepening the scar.
Answered 2/9/2017
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