[joolee.]

My mom and I were talking yesterday about pimples since I use to have them back in elementary. It use to cover my entire forehead, no joke, I'm not exaggerating either. I use to pop all of them even though my mom told me not to. It's been about six or seven years since then and I'm wondering when do those acne scars show. No, not the dark spots left from popping it but the ones that create a little craters / holes on your face. My mom said it won't show until later on and I'm freaking out because I'm scared it might show up on my face in a few more years. (She said it starts showing when I hit my 20's.) T_T Do the dark spots left from popping pimples create those craters / holes?

[joolee.]

Nobody knows?! Oh man.

[ugly]

She's trying to scare you. If there are no craters after the dark spots go away, you won't get any.

[vaberella]

She's trying to scare you. If there are no craters after the dark spots go away, you won't get any.

Ugly is right. Your mum is just trying to scare you.

I'm surprised you don't have scars from popping zits, but more power to you. I wouldn't do it if I get one...never did it. Anyway, you normally get it right away and it gets these weird red craterse afterwards----on black people it's more like purplish in colour. If you don't get it within a relatively close time to when you popped them---then your safe.

[Jamila]

Ugly is right. Your mum is just trying to scare you.

I'm surprised you don't have scars from popping zits, but more power to you. I wouldn't do it if I get one...never did it. Anyway, you normally get it right away and it gets these weird red craterse afterwards----on black people it's more like purplish in colour. If you don't get it within a relatively close time to when you popped them---then your safe.

purplish??? lol
since you don't already have any..you prob won't get them..lol
I get acne scarring (NO "Craters") like a day after popping a pimple...sucks..even if I don't pop it I usually get a scar anyway..daym genes..

[Swiss Cheese]

LOL no.
Blemishes do not miraculously turn into craters. XD

[unwritingyou]

^ Once you pop them sometimes they do get sort of...holes.

I was wondering this too, my mother said the same thing to me. And she actually does have a few. So I'm assuming it's true?

[Pogichinoy]

Craters are a fact, my father has heaps!! ^^

But it just depends how much pimple popping you've done on your face.

[Pink_Peeps]

You get those "craters" like right after -.- And they are red, and stay red for ever.
(I have them -.- I hate it)
Sorry if this is off topic, but o.o Is there any way to prevent them, cause I get them, regardless if I pop my zits or not, they just happen. And only on my cheeks. They are terrible. Like even if I leave them alone and add medicine, they leave those red craters. -.- And there isn't a way to heal them, is there...

[addickshun]

those are just blemishes.

[Lovelight]

hrm. i have acne scars but the only time i got a "crater" acne scar was when my dermatologist used this..tool to dig out my black heads and such. >_<

[joolee.]

Thanks for answering my questions, I'm so glad that I won't end up having 4329847328497239523 holes on my face because of all the popping I did previously.

[boka]

the asian subpopulation is at an increased risk of hypertrophic scars. severe acne can cause such scars but if your skin has made a full recovery, you shouldn't waste your time worrying

[joolee.]

^ So even if I still have a few red-ish marks left from popping a pimple, it won't turn into a hole a few months after?

[Aestas]

it depends how deep your acne is when you pop/pick at it.... but if it is a shallow pimple and heals over, its not going to "show up" a few months later.

if you pick at it too deep and too wide, the top layer of epidermis cells won't be able to connect over the opening thus it won't heal over. instead you'll have the dark connective tissue (forgot the name.... ) filling in the gap. that's the "craters" that are left. its immediate scarring.