How to Remove the Redness of a Pimple

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kim with Simply Beautiful in Austin, Texas. A question I get a lot is "how do I reduce the redness of a pimple"? It's pretty simple and I'm going to demonstrate on Elaine, who has no pimples. We're going to do this in three steps, the first one is we're going to reduce the swelling with ice. We're just going to take the ice and put it right on the pimple, right on the acne, right on the breakout, rub it around, not too hard. Your skin will start getting numb but it's going to reduce the swelling, reducing the swelling is going to really help with the redness. The second thing I'm going to recommend to you is that you get a little honey, honey on a Q-tip or honey on your finger. We're just going to put it in the same spot but honey's going to act as a natural antibiotic and it's going to dry out some of those impurities and begin the process of healing it. So, five or ten minutes, wipe it off, rinse it off, wash it off. Benzoyl Peroxide is something I always recommend for breakouts, it really does help dry out the surface of that breakout. This is called Redness Solutions from Clinique, I don't endorse a whole lot of products but this is a great product for those of you who are acne prone. So, just get a little dab, just a tiny dab on dry skin, we're just going to dab it on. The cream is the opposite end of the spectrum, the color spectrum from red, so what it does is it evens out the tone. See how white we've gotten? Elaina doesn't have really any red underneath but it's amazing, that stuff, it's great and then just use a little concealer over the top, just use your concealer. Actually, I want you to use it on your finger and then on the top. Anything that you put directly on your skin is going to get bacteria on it and if you put it back on your skin, you're transferring the bacteria back to your skin, so always use your finger, wash your hands a lot when you have acne. Then you want to follow it up with your foundation and your powder and you should see a real big reduction in the redness of your acne."