I usually use a sharp pin sterilized with rubbing alcohol rather than a penknife to work the ingrown hair free - I find it's less obtrusive to surrounding skin than a knife - before using tweezers to pull the hair out. I sometimes need to keep an alcohol pad handy to wipe the skin if it bleeds, but nonetheless, having a painful ingrown hair pulled out is one of life's unsung small pleasures....
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
yep, just looked up sebaceous cyst - definitely what it wascottage cheese + funky odor
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
There is a thread for this: Cysts
― kate78, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
I have a spot on my back that has a recurring ingrown hair -- I scratched at it for so many years that there's a bit of scar tissue back there, and that one hair and surrounding dead skin accumulate as a hard mass. About once a year that grain of rice is ready to harvest and I get my wife to dig it out with a penknife or tweezers. It feels great when she catches hold of it and pulls it out.
dude
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Marital aid
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
sentences that single-handedly demonstrate the all encompassing monster that ILX has become.
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I have what I guess is a sebaceous cyst on my neck, mentioned itt way upthread. Though my doc called it a ganglia. It gets full of stinky cheese once or twice a year, not v big, squeeze it out and it goes back to normal. It doesn't hurt or bleed or anything. the cheese is gross. but secretly I think it's kind of fascinating in a grody kind of way.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of dig getting rice grains stuck in my sinuses, it feels good to snort them out and eat them
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:02 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes I get these little... growths? I don't know how to describe them, except that I can scratch at them, and they'll come out, and leave a little 'socket' behind. sometimes I get a nice big one and it leaves a little hole behind that's big enough to be dark (i.e. light can't get in). feels good
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
I love rubbing neck acne
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
I just looked at a carton of whole milk and though "buttwhole milk" that's how gross I am.
― how's life, Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link