Right intention, wrong time and place.

It’s not very socially encouraged to be proud of your acne. Teenagers are put on intense medications like Accutane and do everything in their power to hide their acne from their peers. Not only does acne make you feel unattractive, but it can also be physically painful. 

One of the newest acne inventions sweeping Gen Z is pimple patches. These are little stickers that you put on your zits and somehow slurp some of the pus out of them. People wear them to sleep, but they also wear them out in public. Whether this is a product meant to accentuate acne or hide it is still a mystery to me. It both hides the actual pimple while making it much more apparent that there is a pimple under that patch. 

However you feel about pimple patches, it’s very clear that they have become much more socially acceptable to use in everyday life. Young people don’t just wear them to the gym or the grocery store. They wear them to work, school, and just about any place you can think of.