# What's the worst place to get a zit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 13, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245 "2003-10-13T19:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/41 "2003-10-14T21:50:25Z")
What about the inner-thigh-centimeters-from-the-girly-bits zit? Those are torture. If you wear panties, the elastic rubs up against it all day to the point that every step of shift of position brings tears to your eyes, and if you go commando, the lack of underpants does little to alleviate the pain since your pants will inevitably anger the acne spawned by Satan. The only solution really is to stay home for the day, naked, spread eagle on the couch, which can get old fast, or wear a skirt without drawers and risk having your ass crack try to eat your skirt. Being a girl sucks! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/42 "2003-10-14T21:55:46Z")
What about the inner-thigh-centimeters-from-the-girly-bits zit? Those are torture. If you wear panties, the elastic rubs up against it all day to the point that every step of shift of position brings tears to your eyes, and if you go commando, the lack of underpants does little to alleviate the pain since your pants will inevitably anger the acne spawned by Satan. The only solution really is to stay home for the day, naked, spread eagle on the couch, which can get old fast, or wear a skirt without drawers and risk having your ass crack try to eat your skirt. Being a girl sucks! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/43 "2003-10-14T22:15:51Z")
I think the nostril ones are the worst, like everyone says, but coming a close second (for me anyway) would be those in the eyebrows - right in amongst the eyebrow hairs. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/44 "2003-10-14T22:33:13Z")
I just had one of the inner thigh ones, though I’m a guy. Oh, you think cotton is soft until one of those lint balls rubs against an angry red pimple. GAHH! I was frickin’ miserable! ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/45 "2003-10-14T22:44:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _From bibliophile_ > The only solution really is to stay home for the day, naked, spread eagle on the couch… Hey baby, how ya doing? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/46 "2003-10-15T00:38:11Z")
I have one of those evil bastard deep down zits on my chin right now. It hurts and I want it to be gone. I’m going to vote for the ear, but only because I’ve never had a girly-bits one. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/47 "2003-10-15T14:53:32Z")
I get the nose zits fairly regularly. I hate those MF zits. They hurt so much more than you’d think they would. I had a huge one brewing just above my right eyebrow but it seems to have gone away. It’s just as well, though it’d have been fun to pop. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/48 "2003-10-15T16:03:25Z")
[On **Enderw24** ’s back.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44749) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/49 "2003-10-15T17:43:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BubbaDog \* > **I had an ingrown nostril hair that finally poked out through the skin on the outside of my nose.** :eek: Speaking as one who doesn’t have girly bits, and who has been mercifully free of scrotal blemishes, I think I’m going to have to just offer thanks that I have been thus far unafflicted by the nigh-on-legendary Nostril Zit. Oh, and also: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Glassy_ > **the deep painful ones that I used to get in the crease between the top of my ear and the scalp, right where my glasses rest** I forgot about those. Those suck. The one on my lip was worse, but it’s going away remarkably quickly. The ones atop the ears seem to last and last and last. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/50 "2003-10-15T18:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BubbaDog \* > \*\*TMI - I had an ingrown nostril hair that finally poked out through the skin on the outside of my nose. After a painful tweezer yank on the thing my eyes watered so much it looked like I was crying. > > My immediate thought was that Inever wanted to do that again. \*\* Despite the pain, I would love for that to happen to me just once so I can see what it’s like. Like, is there pus? How far did it come out? Did you know it was going to eventually poke out or did it come as a surprise? Are you _sure_ that’s what it was? Was it red and inflamed around the hair? ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/51 "2003-10-15T18:06:44Z")
I gotta go for the lip. I sometimes get really big, deep, boil-esque ones in my lower lip. It deforms my face, makes it hard to talk, and hurts like all get out. Additionally, when they rise you get the joy of looking diseased- and they take forever to heal because of all the movement and foreign matter inherent in the area. I had to meet my boyfriend’s parents for the first time with a huge recently erupted lip zit- with the whole area red and a gross. Sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/52 "2003-10-15T19:37:35Z")
In your ear! You know the kind that are irritating and itch and then when you scratch them they hurt like heck? ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/53 "2003-10-15T23:42:59Z")
Hey! Remember, everyone, more description! Coldfire might wander into this thread and we want to be ready for him. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/54 "2003-10-16T00:51:39Z")
Well, considering access, the worst place to get a zit is in your ear. For discomfort, the worst place would be the girly bits (although, if you manage to withstand the pain, they pop spectacularly). ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/55 "2003-10-16T01:10:51Z")
Tell me how the heck you can see a girly bit zit (heehee I rhymed) pop. Am I missing a secret bit of information i should have as a girl? ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/56 "2003-10-16T03:31:26Z")
Take one hand-mirror … ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/57 "2003-10-16T03:45:59Z")
Those little cosmetics mirrors that attach to a stand work well, too. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/58 "2003-10-16T03:49:22Z")
gotta agreee with the pain of the girly bits…I got an alarmingly large one that hurt nonstop and refused to come to a head for like weeks. Solutions for the ladies? Flannel boxers under loose-fitting non-denim pants and very salty very warm baths. Gotta agree with the sheer embarassment of the prominent facial zit. Especially the ones that come like gangbusters out of nowhere and without warning erupt themselves in public places and ooze pus/blood/lymph all day when you can’t make it home for hours. I gotta say the most spectacular are either A) ingrown pubic hair zits, these are relatively clean and solid, but produce large centers that make you think your skin gave birth to an alien. B) the deep, non-painful shoulder zit you never really noticed until one day…I had one I probably could have measured the output in tablespoons, but like the pubic hair zit, relatively clean and solid. C) the massive pus-filled cavity. You have a zit, everyone knows you have a zit, you squeeze/scratch/pierce/cut it open and green, slimy, bloody, stringy, rotten-smelling fluid cascades down your face/neck/back/etc. If the pain and blood-loss don’t get you, the smell will. Then you mop up and give it another squeeze to see if you reached the bottom and it happens all over again. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/59 "2003-10-16T04:01:44Z")
Oh, you just reminded me of boob zits. I have fairly large breasts and at least once a month or so I get a huge pus filled , alien baby looking zit on the lower part of one of my boobs. Those are the most fun to pop though. Very satisfying, I must say. ---
**Author:** ![lurksfromwork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@lurksfromwork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurksfromwork)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245/60 "2003-10-16T04:05:35Z")
I don’t get zits, I’m perfect! I don’t tell fibs either. Any zit is a bad zit, worse if it is in public view, worse still if it is in an area for private viewing! zitgettin is your partners privilege. The worst i can remember…zit on unerside of my…er… shaft. Or a Bigass boil…between my eyes! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-place-to-get-a-zit/207245.md?page=4)