Reddit reviews Body Toolz Double Loop Facial Skin Care Tool

They are only a few bucks at Wal-Mart.

You too can have one!

EDIT: Here is one for 6$ from Amazon

For starters what kind of skin care do you use and what kind of foundation are you using (liquid or pressed)?

This could be the root of the problem. Your skin through out the day will let your natural oil through. If you are using something that is oil based for your moisturizer, you may be adding too much oil to your face, then causing the makeup to bead up and roll off. Foundations aren't always absorbent, when it comes to the oils in your natural skin. Possibly try something that is mineral based. Now, I know you may be thinking 'If i use minerals, it will look cakey and will create creases.' This isn't always true. Try to find a mineral line that doesn't have any Talc in it. Talc is really unhealthy for the skin and can cause irritation and break out. It clogs the pores and doesn't allow the skin to breathe correctly, it also draws out the oils in the skin creating dryness, which is not good. If you prefer to use a liquid or a mouse style foundation, make sure to use a pressed or lose powder over top also. This will help to set your foundation and can help to absorb any of that excess oil.

Try finding a moisturizer that isn't too heavy and only use a little amount ie; the size of a pea for your whole face. One consumer flaw, in everyone, is that we tend to over use products, more isnt always better. This could also be causing your breakouts. If you have an oil based moisturizer your skin is just going to be even more oily and it will cause those break outs to happen more often.

Proper picking of your blemishes is also key to concealing. Be sure to always wash your hands before you start to adventure into picking on your face. Dirt and bacteria under the nails and on the hands can spread really fast to your skin if your hands are not clean. If you are pressing and squeezing the heck out of your pimples/blackheads you are going to create even more damage to the skin. It sounds scary, but if you get some clean lancets from the drug store, you can poke your whiteheads at an angle parallel to the surface of the skin, you just create a small opening in your blemish so that the bacteria from your blemish can come out, with out damaging the skin around it. This simple little poke will help to reduce the pressure from the bacteria that has formed in your skin, and will make it easier to extract the fluid inside. This will also lessen any sort of crusting that can happen, when you break a blemish badly. Creating that small hole also helps from spreading the bacteria further into your skin. You can also look into an extraction tool my favorite and one for blackheads. Sometimes when we force out a blemish it will break under the surface spreading that into the skin more. Cleansing after you pick is also a good way of stopping breakouts from reoccurring.

For the Concealing, if your finding that they are red blemishes you are trying to hide, find a concealer that has a green base to it. Sounds weird right! But in the color world, green and red are complementary colors making them cancel each other out. So when you put a little bit of green concealer on your skin over those blemishes that are red/pink in color it then put your foundation on, it will hid them more then getting a darker foundation. If you are trying to cover dark areas like under the eyes which is more purple, look for something that is yellow based as it will do the same and cancel out that color making it more neutral and will hide the area. Over using your concealer can make it cake up and crease also, so just a very small amount ie; size of a pin head. This will also help it last a little longer. Find some good non latex sponges for blending and blend your foundation into the areas that you are trying to cover, then blend the rest into you're non blemished areas.

Making sure you are drinking plenty of water is a good tip to add to healthy skin. Sometimes your face will feel dry, not because lack of moisture to the skin, but lack of water internally to the skin. We then tend to over use our moisturizers to compensate for this simple action. Water helps to balance the skin and make the oils act more naturally. If you get the right products and use the right amount you will be just fine. I hope that some of this helps and please let me know if you have some success! Just to throw a little out there, for skin care that is over the counter I like Burts Bees.

The flat side of a tool like this works well for me for removing actual blackheads. My skin is more prone to bruising/scarring if I use a bobby pin, but not everyone's skin is as sensitive as mine.

I have and have always had these on my upper inner thighs. I've recently discovered that these wire blackhead thingies are really good at removing them.

Exfoliating helps, but at least for me has never fully fixed it.

Buy one of these. It will improve your life.

On the off chance this is still a problem for you, I give you THIS THING. I wish a decade ago someone had told me that for $6 I could not look like a walking syphilis trap.

Blackhead extractor-
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Toolz-Double-Loop-Facial/dp/B001B7GJ2E/ref=pd_sim_bt_6

Yup they are! I have one just like it. Here's a link on Amazon for around $5 if you can't find one. I got mine at walmart, I'm pretty sure they have them in the health/beauty isle of most stores.

blackhead remover/pimple popper. Works sooooo much better than fingernails, and is incredible satisfying to use. Those little bastards just pop right out with just about no pain.

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Toolz-Double-Loop-Facial/dp/B001B7GJ2E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324247484&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001B7GJ2E/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1381296911&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

Do any of you guys get like burst/broken blood vessels using that loop extractor thing? like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B7GJ2E/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Im a bit freaked out. I used it on my cheeks and I got red streaks where I used it.

Because I want one as well, Here you are.

tbh, i've considered this but just can't bring myself to do it. the comedone extractors are probably better.

I know I have the perfect boyfriend because he lets me clean his pores with this when I run out of pimples to pop on my own face.
Also over the last two months I've convinced my roommate and her boyfriend to let me clean their pores as well... it's addicting and strangely satisfying.