By Zit-Blues - 04/01/2010 13:50 - United States

Today, I had a large pimple on my temple. I decided to try the whole "put toothpaste on the zit to make it dry up" technique that all the magazines say to do. Not only is my pimple still there, but the toothpaste irritated my skin and my already large pimple now appears three times bigger. FML
I agree, your life sucks 439
You deserved it 80

Top comments

what toothpaste were you using cause it works for me,or its fake?

darkheadlights 4

Did you use gel toothpaste or white toothpaste? You're not supposed to use gel.

Comments

theredheadthree 9

Every reputable magazine out for the last 6 years has had dermatologists writing articles specifically telling you NOT to put toothpaste on blemishes because it is so drying and irritating. what on earth have you been reading????

witch hazel helps as well as deodorant because they dry things up, toothpaste doesnt, so your bad

Same thing happened to me once :(. Next time try lemon juice.

bibib96 0

Idk if this has already been said, but the best thing to use is salt. No joke. What I do is I pour some salt in lukewarm water and let it sit for about 20 seconds. Then I pour out the water leaving the salt. You can either use your finger or a q-tip, I prefer the q-tip because it won't have germs on it. And put the salt on your pimple. Do this at maximum of 4 times. Wipe it off after 20 mins, you will see that the zit has gone down. Put aloe Vera lotion on it and you're zit free!

InsaneOblongata 0

The illustration is nicely drawn & looks great. But seriously? This has nothing to do with the FML. You fail. good drawing though.

mugglewump 0

You mean how it isn't a pimple covered in toothpaste that is illustrated to be huge and gross? Sure the fact it's living is a bit of an exaggeration, but it'd be plain boring without it.

ladycoyote 0

Uh... am I the only one who saw the preview for this illustration on the front page and thought this was a drawing of something else entirely?

The call of the penis is strong, young Padawan.

@71: OH GAWD I didn't think the preview image was that bad until I read that D8 Although I find it really ironic that an FML Staff member made me realize that, kudos to you? |D;; Aside from thaaaattt, this illustration is actually really well drawn.... oh gawd just can't look at it >>:

Yulia_fml 0

ughhh such a nasty illustration. beautiful, but nasty.

Sun_Kissed18 25

The artist should be doing comic book work. However, looking at it I would have never even guessed that the FML and the illustration correlated... at all.

The link box cut off the rest of the drawing and only showed the pimples with white on them; Your pimples look a lot like penises.

I kind of got it, it is like a monster zit coming out of his temple, but that wasn't my first guess