True story. In the past week not one but two of my guy friends have asked me whether or
not pore-cleansing strips work. Huh?
I picked up some pore-cleansing strips. Going to see if it works, I have my doubts. This
box promises that these will lock onto and pull out dirt for the deepest clean. The girl
on the cover looks very pleased. I'm going to suspend my belief for the ten minutes that
this is going to take and hope that this will work. Step one: open the box. Step two: Remove
pouch. Really chugging along here. Step three: Remove strip from pouch, twist strip to loosen
and separate slits prior to use. See illustration. So we twist to make the slits, ah, there are
the slits. Twist, twist, twist. It's like a little game. Next up wash your face and
thoroughly wet your nose. If I wash my face I'm going to wash off all of this makeup and
you'll see what I look like. So I'll just wet my nose. Ah it's cold. We have to wet
the nose so that it can dry onto it. Like paper mache. Next up, apply to the nose area,
smooth side down. And we're off. I'm supposed to leave this on for about ten minutes or
until it dries. Of course I did a little bit of research on these pore-cleansing strips
to find out whether or not they're actually supposed to work. I think they're a little
bit of a racket. Not to mention expensive. Over eight dollars? But the internet told
me that they sometimes work. What these do is pull out all of the gunk that comprise
blackheads, a combination of sebum which is a fancy word for oil and dead skin cells that
have collected in my pores. They turn black hence the term blackheads once oxygen hits
them. So blackheads are really just oxygenated nose trash in your face holes. Gross. Speaking
of face holes, our face is covered in over 200,000 pores most of which are concentrated
on the nose which is why we get so many blackheads there. One thing that I learned after I had
shelled out eight dollars and change to get these is that you can actually make them at
home. All you really need is essentially just ingredients for paper mache. One site that
I found said that you can use anything that has a slightly adhesive effect once it dries.
Egg whites would work, honey, buttermilk. Covering that in gauze or thin cloth, leaving
it on like this to dry, you rip it off, your blackheads go with it. Supposedly. So really
it would have been a more entertaining video if I tried to make homemade pore strips using
honey and egg whites and buttermilk because I have a feeling that really would not have
worked and I would have just tried to have made a disgusting omelet. Or if you throw
some flour on there you could make biscuits. [Singing]. Waiting on my blackheads to get
cleaned out. You can even use pore strips while you get smarter. Pore cleansing strip
song. Passing the time, well it's so long. Or you could really do it up. Spa style. The
moisturizing properties of cucumbers are supposed to depuff your eye region and leave you looking
refreshed. And they also make for a delicious snack. Now one word of caution about these
pore strips is that if you are one of the lucky ones and they work like gangbusters
for you this is not something to add to your daily beauty regiment. If you're man enough
to admit that you have a daily beauty regiment. It's not very good for the skin to continually
kind of agitate the pores. Don't do it more than once every few weeks. Be gentle with
your skin. I'm now picturing my guy friends wearing these looking at Sports Illustrated.
And time! Dundundundundundoo, dodododun. Record scratch. There's nothing on this. I'm not
trying to toot my own pore-horn, okay? That's a hard word to say. But this is blank. I feel
duped. This is what I have to say to you. Quackery! It didn't work for me. Maybe it
will work for you, anecdotally I've heard people say that they work. Fellas, if you're
wondering about investing in pore cleansing strips the time and the money, I can't vouch
for it. I'm going to have to go back and tell my guy friends do pore cleansing strips work?
This gal's nose knows the answer is no.