Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Popping pimples can be bad for your skin, leading to inflammation, infection, ...

The latter is typically a big pimple under skin's surface ... "You can traumatize the surface of the skin, leading to a ...

So, the last thing you want is to have an enormous, inflamed, infected pimple which is going to last you a lot longer and leave a greater red mark. More from Science A triangle pointing right ...