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Patch your zit

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Retro 1950s pin-up style watercolor illustration of a woman in a nightgown sitting in bed applying a small pimple patch to her cheek while looking in a compact mirror, with skincare jars and an alarm clock on the bedside table under a moonlit night sky.
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Mimi All right. It’s kind of an off one, but it’s something that I needed desperately this week. It’s called PanOxyl PM Overnight Spot Patches. It’s for zits.

Adam Did they come in a little star formation?

Mimi No, I have the little round ones because I like those better. So it manages blemishes and it speeds up healing and it reduces scarring. You can get them on Amazon. They have twelve thousand positive reviews and 4.5 stars.

Adam But so do Haribo gummy bears. They’ve got twelve thousand positive reviews. So I don’t know if that means anything.

Mimi So it’s like 16.99 for eighty count. It’s the best deal. You can get 40 count for 9.49.

But the companion that’s absolutely necessary if you get blind zits, which are pimples that before they form a head and they drive you crazy, like with cystic acne. You can use Peach Slices Deep Blemish Microdart. It has like B3 in it and salicylic acid and tea tree oil. And they’re kind of expensive. They’re 8.88 dollars for nine patches, but they absolutely work.

And, you know, it’s something that I’m sure you haven’t had this tip before because John would have vetoed it. So I’m getting the one.

Adam It’s interesting because when Christina was here for Christmas, I had a zit, you know, I don’t know. I’m sixty one. What’s going on here? And she said, oh, no, you got to get these patches. And it’s the same concept. And there was a little star and you put it on your pimple. And then the next day it’s gone.

Mimi Yeah. No, where were these when I was a teenager?

Adam Hello. Hello, everybody. That’s the real question. Where were they when we were kids? We needed them.

Mimi But what is it about… You know, I’m of the age I should — like I thought acne was something from my past.

It’s like what the heck? But these things are great. I thought they were nonsense. But I had this blind one and it was driving me crazy because it just wasn’t doing anything. And I was embarrassed to leave the house.

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