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I can’t stop watching blackhead removal videos on YouTube

33 replies

Choclover27 · 08/05/2019 21:27

I’m totally in to them. And can watch over an hour at night secretly. I have honed it down to really only liking the ones where the blackheads are pulled about by tweezers. Which must be very laborious considering how blackhead ridden people seem to be! I love guessing by the camera angle which one the tweezers are heading for ( 10 points for each correct guess) and I get rather ( over ) excited by the holes that are left behind. My partner and I are considering moving in together next year. He would be horrified. I will really have to go undercover.

OP posts:
IABUQueen · 08/05/2019 21:29

You sound like my DH.

YABU, it’s yuck. Confused

I do think DH loves picking out hairs from the sink and enjoys all the dirty things that make me cringe. He genuinely enjoys it and finds it therapeutic.

Lucky me. Shouldn’t complain.

Isthebigwomanhere · 08/05/2019 21:31

Sorry op but YABU

Earwax removal videos are much better

userxx · 08/05/2019 21:35

Have you visited the sporners corner....... you'll fit right in.

Tolleshunt · 08/05/2019 21:36

YANBU. I'm with you on the tweezers.

Got any good links?

Pinkprincess1978 · 08/05/2019 21:37

I can't watch them all easily loose my evening. My favourite are cysts ones

SospanFrangipan · 08/05/2019 21:38

I'm a secret watcher too 🙈 Love a good blackhead minefield video! I get quite jealous that these people do it for a living😂

Queenfreak · 08/05/2019 21:38

So which would you rate then? asking for a friend

pazwaz70 · 08/05/2019 21:41

It's my secret pleasure,I also love watching earwax extraction videos. It's my dream job!

IABUQueen · 08/05/2019 21:48

Out of curiousity do some pp here have ocd like my DH?

I wonder if it’s linked. I couldn’t sleep if I watched a video about earwax. Would make me heave

onlyconnect · 08/05/2019 21:50

Oh my! I'd never seen them before but I think I'm addicted already. I'm wishing I had some like that to squeeze

Livedandlearned · 08/05/2019 21:51

I love them so much too! Check out UrbanExtraction for ingrown hairs. Episode 14 is my all time favourite.

Livedandlearned · 08/05/2019 21:52

@pazwaz do you watch Audiology Associates on YouTube? Also Dr Zhao is fab.

Chimchar · 08/05/2019 21:58

I watch them and feel really dirty afterwards, like I'm harbouring a secret guilt. Confused

user1474894224 · 08/05/2019 21:58

I'm really mainstream and like Dr Pimple Popper. Go back to her older work on You Tube. The TLC episodes are more lyphomas and cycsts - but great stories. Ear wax used to interest me but I think I'm done now....I prefer the old fashioned syringe rather than the extraction videos. More fun when the wax fell out of the ear unexpectedly. Lol.

Original poster
Choclover27 · 08/05/2019 22:29

Thank god you are all as strange as me. I don’t have OCD. Nor any other addictive behaviours. I’ve watched cysts ( over that one too ), not a fan of in growing hairs, but do like a good milia extraction. Slightly jealous I have none of these personally.
Must get back to my videos. I have 32 mins left till my 11pm curfew.

OP posts:
user1474894224 · 09/05/2019 06:16

@choclover27 I don't have any either. But my OH bought me a spot remover tool kit just in case. (There are occasional spots). The kids get their ears cleaned regularly. And once they get hormonal acne I'll be there!!! (I won't really as I'm sure they'll tell me where to go!)

NicoAndTheNiners · 09/05/2019 06:31

Not a blackhead but dh got a massive thorn embedded in his head yesterday and I had to dig it out with tweezers. Was amazing.

slipperywhensparticus · 09/05/2019 06:37

Since when did we have an is this normal topic?

See you at corners corner OP Grin

Mumsymumphy · 09/05/2019 06:40

I have found my people! 🙌🏻

Love watching the videos 😁don't get the American way of poking and prodding them with sharp instruments- just get your fingers on it and squeeeeeze!

weaselwords · 09/05/2019 06:44

I’ve moved on to ear wax videos now, but still have a place in my heart for Dr Pimplepopper’s “Blackheads for dayzzzzz” video of a young woman’s back. Very satisfying, But she hasn’t got the Welsh lilt of the Audiology Associates guy.

boredboredboredboredbored · 09/05/2019 06:48

I used to do war syringing at work (nurse) that moment the huge piece plops out is spectacular. I am also partial to blackheads and pus filled spots too. I recall an elderly lady I looked after who had the hugest of blackheads on her face, obviously I couldn't squeeze it but it was all I could look at when I spoke to her Blush

origamiunicorn · 09/05/2019 07:14

I’ve moved on to ear wax videos now

🤣 Blackhead popping, the gateway drug.

ScreamingValenta · 09/05/2019 07:16

Get yourself down to Sporner Corner - it's ace there!

PoohBearsHole · 09/05/2019 07:19

Link link link

PLEASE

my family were grossed out by my watching them but now send me links to them 😂😂😂

hardyloveit · 09/05/2019 08:15

I love dr pimple popper and the ear wax removals 🙈 could watch them all the time! I even bought some kit to do it with a huge magnifying light (just incase) haha