blackhead
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A herder moves his goats and blackhead Persian sheep to market in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 2024
The comedian and actor Jaboukie Young-White declared, “My love language is blackhead removal.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
It was revealed she was an avid watcher of YouTube videos on blackhead removal and Dr Pimple Popper and had watched more than 300 clips between October 2019 and August 2021.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2022
A blackhead yields to the forces applied to it, dead-skin gunk snaking and coiling its way out of the pore like butter being squished through a cream cracker.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
Watching yellowed soles turn icy again is as satisfying as squeezing a blackhead and getting all the gunk out.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Breakouts can look like milder, painless white bumps or dark specks known as whiteheads and blackheads, or more painful red bumps and deeper cysts — a mark of cystic acne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Visible pores, blackheads, blemishes, pigmentation, redness and scarring are all very normal for teenage skin, says Dr Kentley.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Its appearance can vary, ranging from whiteheads and blackheads to pustules and nodules, mainly on the face, forehead, chest, upper back and shoulders.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
There are now chemical methods for blackhead removal, like rinsing with salicylic acid, though the attempt to gradually melt blackheads away seems less satisfying than instant abolishment.
From Slate ● May 25, 2019
“Excellent on everything from boils to blackheads, but don’t change the subject. Are you or are you not currently going out with a boy called Dean Thomas?”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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