Quick question: Upon discovering a huge new zit that’s taken over your face as its new home, what’s the first thing you do? If you’re a celebrity, these days the answer is clear. You stick some acne medicine on it, snap a no-makeup selfie, send it out to your millions of followers and call it a day. Truly, not all heroes wear capes—because where once a big breakout meant tilting your head just-so to hide it from social media’s all-seeing eye, now, celebrities all over the place are leading the charge of acne-normalizing selfies.
It’s a welcome shift from the freakishly-smooth, filtered-to-the-nines skin of years past—and a natural evolution of the no-makeup selfies that cropped up more recently. Plus, in a world that’s so hell-bent on zooming in on celebrities’ so-called “flaws,” maybe they’re just trying to beat haters to the punch. Either way, it’s working. See what we mean with these snaps.
Lili Reinhart
PHOTO: Instagram / @lilireinhart
Lili Reinhart doesn’t shy from talking about her cystic acne, and on Instagram, that means frequent sightings of her zit-fighting arsenal. She’s taken her followers through her extensive skin care routine before, but as anyone who’s used a drying cream can attest, the novelty never really wears off. Conveniently, they also work.
Chrissy Teigen
This ten-second video of her red, irritated period skin is just a drop in the bucket of the relatable content that Chrissy Teigen posts, but it burst the dam of acne-laden celebrity selfies.
Rachel Bloom
Rachel Bloom forever tells it like it is—her all-too-real description of hormonal acne is no different.
Lorde
Lorde and Jack Antonoff? Denied. Lorde and acne cream? Potentially carved on a tree trunk somewhere.
Mindy Kaling
Basically whoever said acne disappears once you leave puberty is a liar.
Brie Larson
Ah, yes, the familiar “see zit, try and annihilate zit, create worse zit” life cycle. Going by Brie Larson’s caption she knows it well.
Gabrielle Union
Humor: The best acne fighter. (Next to this face mask.)
Ashley Benson
Ashley Benson didn’t confirm which pimple cream was in action here, but judging by the light pink color, it’s likely either Mario Badescu Drying Lotion or Kate Somerville EradiKate Acne Treatment (both use sulfur and zinc oxide to soak up oil and draw out gunk).
Bethenny Frankel
Bethenny Frankel’s expression here says all that needs to be said. It is what it is: a giant zit.
Justin Bieber
Bieber puts it bluntly, “pimples are in.”
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