Redeem now - YouTuber and dermatologist/cosmetologist Dr. Lalit Kasana posted a new video showing the removal of "old eye blackheads" in a patient.
- Since the skin around the eyes is so delicate, the removal process has to be gentle.
- It makes for a stressful but still satisfying video.
A new pimple popping video on YouTube shows a dermatologist gently extracting blackheads lodged in the delicate skin around a patient's eyes.
Dr. Lalit Kasana, a cosmetologist and dermatologist based in India, uploaded the video to his eponymous YouTube channel on Sunday. It's titled "OLD EYE BLACKHEADS," though it's not made clear exactly how old the blackheads are.
This isn't the first time Kasana has unclogged pores around the eyes. Last month, his channel featured a patient with 50-year-old blackheads on man's eyelids — a video that quickly drew more than a million views.
In the new video, however, Kasana utilizes a technique that's not often seen in blackhead videos: radiofrequency cautery. It's a type of electrosurgery — the general term for when doctors use tools with an electric charge to heat and cut tissue in a controlled, precise way. It's used in dermatology to burn off abnormal skin growths or to stop bleeding, according to DermNet NZ, the educational website of the New Zealand Dermatological Society.
In the video, Kasana notes that he's using the cautery tool to further open up the clogged pores and to prevent bleeding in the thin skin around the patient's eyes. Once the cautery is done, he grabs a pair of cotton swabs to gently squeeze out each pore's contents – a technique that's also used by other popping professionals on YouTube.
The resulting video is tense and soothing all at once. Watch it in full below:
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