i know this might be getting personal, but has anyone used biore pore pack before?

i used to laugh at people who said they used the pore pack on their nose because i'd remember the hilarious commercial where the jap girl sits on a step and sways her legs from left to right while waiting for the pore pack to dry on her nose. but now, i laugh no more. you see, recently since i've kept off chocolates and oily stuff (well, tried to at least) and started using Neutrogena's acne cream, my pimples have cleared up considerably, leaving only masses of acne scars and blackheads. which of course won't do because which loser waits her whole life for her pimples to go away only to have them replaced by colonies of blackheads???

so anyway, the first time i used it was last week, but i think i must have not wet it enough when i stuck it on, and also ripped it off with too much flamboyance because the resolute little blackheads remained firmly intact. i was just about to conclude that my nose was beyond saving, but decided to give it another shot yesterday. this time, i stuck it down super hard, left it to dry super long, and pulled it off super slow. and lo and behold, when i looked at the strip after detaching it from my nose, i saw MOUNDS UPON MOUNDS of little brown shit staring back at me. and i thought to myself, YOU MEAN ALL THAT CAME FROM MY NOSE??? hurriedly, i looked at my nose in the mirror and realised that there were little reddish spots at very frequent intervals and was immediately grossed out beyond belief.

which i guess should have been the cue for me to leave it at that, but you know me, i like to take good things and screw them up. anyway so i was examining my nose very intently, and realised that there was region where the brown stuff was like at the surface but not quite pulled off by the pore pack. so i thought, hmm, let's use another one to get rid of this crap! and promptly stuck another pore pack right back on, neglecting of course to heed the warning which says 'please allow 3 days between use'. this time, when i ripped it off i was indeed successful in removing the brown crud, but along with it, i think i ripped off half my nose. because when i looked at the mirror again, all i saw with this indistinct blob of redness where my nose once was. and of course when i rubbed it i realised that it was swollen beyond belief, which goes to show that you should always read instructions.

so that's the sad story of my experience with biore pore pack. i'm not sure exactly how much of your face is supposed to come off with the strips, but according to mark, his look like GRASS once he removes them from his face. and oh, if that's not disgusting enough for you, here's an observation that might be: this morning when i was eating breakfast i looked at the slice of bread on my plate and noticed for the first time that, the geography of little unassuming holes on bread look a lot like how the pore pack does when you first adhere it to your nose and it starts latching on to your blackheads.

oh and a final tip! if, like me, you're plagued with nuclear plantations on your face, try using 2.5% benzoyl peroxide preparations. i know like oxy and clearasil sell 'maximum strength' ones which are between 5-10%, but those irritate your face with prolonged use and cause it to flake, which sort of defeats the purpose. plus it's been clinically proven that 2.5% concentration has the same effectiveness as anything above that, and the only reason why people still sell 10% is because that's the maximum FDA approved limit and desperate people like you and me tend to go for whatever claims to be stronger. i've been using neutrogena's on-the-spot acne treatment for like a month now and it's like a miracle. so you should really trust me on this one because if it works for me, then it'll definitely work for you!