Watch a woman use 16 pore strips to extract hundreds of blackheads from her boyfriend's back
- A video shared on Reddit shows a woman peeling 16 blackhead-filled pore strips off of her boyfriend's back.
- It's immensely satisfying.
- In an interview with INSIDER, the man in the video explained that his blackheads resulted from chronic sun exposure.
- These kinds of blackhead are known as solar comedones.
Imagine peeling back a pore strip to find that it's pulled out dozens of blackheads at once.
Now imagine it happening 16 times in a row.
That's the gist of an excellent pimple popping video shared in Reddit's /r/popping community back in April. It shows a woman peeling pore strip after pore strip off of a man's back, freeing a staggering number of blackheads from their pores. The Reddit post was titled "Millions of blackheads on the back" which is a bit of an exaggeration. But there are easily hundreds.
INSIDER tracked down the man whose back is featured in the video — Kevin Andrew — who explained that the pore strips were his girlfriend's idea.
"For some time before we actually took this video, my girlfriend had commented on how many blackheads I had on my back and then finally one day while she was trying to extract them with a tool set ... she said that we should use pore strips instead," Andrew told INSIDER. "So at about 11:00 p.m. I went out to Walmart and bought a pack of pore strips and let her go to town."
And go to town she did. Andrew's girlfriend peeled off a total of 16 pore strips during the session, which took place on Valentine's Day 2017, he said. Maybe that's not everyone's idea of a Valentine's Day activity, but trust us: To people who love pimple popping, the chance to extract blackheads from your significant other's skin is perhaps the most romantic of romantic gestures.
Watch the video right here:
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After the video was posted, Andrew noticed some commenters accusing him of poor hygiene.
"I took a lot of heat from people on the internet saying that my hygiene wasn't up to par and that's why I got these on my back," he said.
That's a fundamental misunderstanding of blackheads, though. Their dark color doesn't come from dirt — it happens because oil trapped in clogged pores darkens when exposed to oxygen. Andrew also said his doctor told him his blackheads were caused by working outside in the sun for years. That's a real thing, too: Blackheads caused by chronic sun exposure are called solar comedones — and they're frequently featured videos posted by YouTube's Dr. Pimple Popper.
For the most part, however, pimple popping fans on Reddit adored the video.
"I've received a lot more attention over it than I thought I would," Andrew said. "I'm happy that a few people could get some enjoyment out of it."
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