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Some are rather nasty and disgusting. It alludes me.

Some wait for the mole, which may be a congenital nevus, to change color, texture or size as an early warning system of some subdermal irregularity or melanoma. Many cases this change in appearance of the mole does not occur.

Why don't people who can't spell become better educated so they can? It eludes me.

Because then your beauty mark turns into a scar, OP.

Obama has a big old booger mole.

In some cultures, moles can be considered lucky depending on their placement. As for the hairs growing out of them, the longer the luckier.

I couldn't watch the Waltons because of that disgusting mole on John Boy's face.

People are probably afraid that the plastic surgery procedure to remove the mole will leave a scar that's even more distracting than the mole. I don't think this is true. In fact, I know it's not true, as I had a few small ones removed.

John Boy Walton owns this thread.

Enrique Iglesias is an example of successful mole removal. He only became hotter without the distraction on his handsome face.

I had moles removed from my face and they all came back.

Had what one doctor insisted was a non pigmented mole removed from my nose - scar isn't bad but the divot left behind isn't great.

I'd much rather see the scar than the mole. Moles literally make me sick in my stomach. If I have a waitress with a lot of moles I have to leave because I won't be able to eat. I'm fascinated by people who can find anyone with moles on their face attractive. I would never be able to fuck Gabriel Macht, for instance.

I must be blocking out some sort of traumatic experience I had as a child that involved moles.

R13, that does sound rather extreme. You don't happen to suffer from trypophobia?

OP. I've wondered the same thing. I grew up with a number of facial scars (chicken pox when I was 4) which couldn't be repaired later in life. So I never understood why something as simple as mole removal wasn't attended to. It's sort of a breaking point with me with all that Central European porn: so many of those hot young guys have huge moles, that could easily be removed.

OP was surely expecting to be skewered for "alludes."

I'm convinced that all the thread heading typos are intentional.

R11, are you sure they weren't warts?

R14 is a fucking evil son of a bitch bastard motherfucker!

I agree with OP, facial moles are fucking disgusting.

I would much rather have a scar than a mole, bleah!

[quote] I couldn't watch the Waltons because of that disgusting mole on John Boy's face.

Quite.

I figured the misspelling would get three or four Webster-Merriam junkies to post and keep the thread alive. I had one burned off near my nose years ago and you can't tell at all. No scar or anything. And yeah, I'd rather have a scar that you could cover up instead of some big raised mole.

Was it a mole or a birth mark on John Boy?

If the mole removal is deemed by your doctor as "cosmetic", insurance won't cover it. Plastic surgery for the removal is expensive.

I think some posters are confusing moles with warts and skin tags (a type of growth seen on the face). Each one requires a different type of treatment depending on its classification. Skin tags will spread if left untreated and are often disturbing to look at but are easily removed by a qualified dermatologist.

You bitches shamed me into getting my cute mole removed!

that schematic is scary - I knew someone with such a mole at #3 and yep, he was a douche

Use proper capitalization and punctuation, twat at R28. Your laziness proves you so be the douche. A dirty, lazy reused douche with ember flecks floating in its noxious liquor.

Thanks!

I was watching the documentary "Citizenfour" over the weekend and Ed Snowden's neck mole was so distracting, I kept expecting it to break out in song any moment. That thing was hideous, but was raised enough that it doesn't seem like removal would leave much, if any, of a scar. And I can't imagine a scar wouldn't be preferable to having a meatball jutting out from your neck.

Cost perhaps.

I had a chin mole removed about 3 weeks ago and after paying my $45 co-pay to the dermatologist she gets ready to do the procedure and then announces, "By the way...since this is cosmetic it will be $300 due at the desk."

I had also asked abouit this permanent whitehead I had on my forehead (I forget the medical term she called it) and that would have been an extra $75!

All she did was numb the mole and slice it off with a straight razor and had me keep a band aid on for 24 hours. Then the next week was spent putting Vaseline and a band aid on it.

I went home and dug the whitehead out myself and the next mole will be removed on my own, too.

As shocking as it is may seem OP maybe just maybe.....they don't care. *GASP* And they love when assholes like yourself post about them on anonymous message boards.

R29 is the grammar douche. You need to find the white privilege essay contest in douchey Connecticut, douchequat.

R29 has a mole right in the middle of his douchey forehead. Period. Exclamation point.

r34 You insensitive swine, that's a bindi! Stop such discrimination!

[quote] [R11], are you sure they weren't warts?

No, they are moles. I get moles rather easily, possibly because my dad is a dark haired guy who tans super easily, and mom a blonde Scandinavian who doesn't tan at all. When I was a teen and was zapping zits I'd sometimes get a mole when the zit healed. Those moles did go away at some point, though. It was 15 years since I had the moles removed (and not by a plastic surgeon, I didn't have money for that), and I vaguely remember the doctor using a hot wire to cut them off. When the skin healed in a few weeks the new skin was colored as well, maybe not as dark as the original, but still something I'd call a mole.

If a superficial skin tag is raised up off the skin, you can snip it yourself. Just put some pressure on it until it stops bleeding. Then apply some antibiotic ointment. If it is very large, you can tie a thread tightly around it and it will fall off in a day or two without any bleeding.

[quote]you can tie a thread tightly around [a skin tag] and it will fall off in a day or two without any bleeding

I tried that a few months ago, and it was horrible -- all I could feel was the thread [actually dental floss] strangling that poor bit of skin! It felt weird and was quite painful.

I could only stand it for maybe an hour, then I snipped the tag off with some cuticle scissors and felt blessed relief.

R14 almost made me heave!

Is skin tag a new kind of homosexual hazing ?

[quote] Ed Snowden's neck mole was so distracting, I kept expecting it to break out in song any moment. That thing was hideous

True. So true.

[quote] Just put some pressure on it until it stops bleeding

Get a styptic pencil

For skin tag, there's a less painful way to do it: put an ice pack on the area for a while till it's good and cold, then remove the ice pack. Get some apple cider vinegar, put it on a cotton q-tip or other swab, put it on the skin tag. It might sting a bit, but it should dry off and come off fairly easily. I had googled some solutions, and that worked for me. My doctor wanted to charge me a few hundred bucks.

There are nerves near those facial moles in some cases. Doctor makes a slip and you get a paralyzed face that no amount of malpractice verdict can undo.

For skin tags, I've started with an ice pack, then used a sterilized cuticle scissors and some Orajel (20% Benzocaine) to aid with the numbing effect, followed with a swift application of an antibiotic cream and a band-aid. But it really didn't cost that much to see a dermatologist that have a bunch of them removed all at once. I've got 1-800-Declutter scheduled to stop by the house tomorrow (actually, today). It's nice to have a couple of burly men in your house, and all you have to do is point at the offending piece of furniture and point at it, and let the burly guys do the work. Some things are worth paying for.

I have one right next to my lip and I'm a guy. I don't really notice it any more although I did see a video of myself recently and thought it really stood out. I wont get it removed because I'm worried about how I will look without it.

I had to wait like 3 months to see a plastic surgeon and another 3 for the appointment. My insurance paid. Otherwise, small moles are like $500 for private practice docs. If it is a doc in a hospital practice, you get their fee + hospital fee so it's like $1200 for a stupid mole. I have no scar from it - even though it was nearly 1 cm wide. It was growing for a year. The scar was gone at 3 mos.

The other one I had was in the lower eyelid skin, and it was pretty small. The dermatologist didn't even warn me, but she cauterized the thing w/o any anesthesia. It was insanely painful. Afterwords, she was like "sorry there's no real way to numb that area" - bitch please... EMLA cream or a small lidocaine injection would've been easy to do. That also came back 10 years later.

I had 3-4 removed from my shoulders. They were gross... and the scars lasted over a year. But, now you can't tell unless you look really close.

[quote] I wont get it removed because I'm worried about how I will look without it.

Better.

What do burly men have to do with moles ? Do the burly men remove them ? R47

R51, If only. One the guys who was just here was so handsome, I was ready to swoon. But I was trying to making the point that I don't mind paying for things that I'd just as soon not deal with on my own. I had a bunch of skin tags removed several years ago, and that visit was covered by my insurance with a $35.00 copay.

Count your blessings, R52. Most insurers claim that skin tags are not a health risk and their removal must be paid by the insured. If I have my skin tags removed by my PCP, it's $300. If I go to a dermatologist, it's even more expensive. My sister does it for a nice bottle of wine.

I had a flesh colored lumpy looking one between by eyes, the plastic surgeon charged me $500. The divot remaining is very small, and I'm much happier with the divot than the mole. He did two laser touch ups on the divot and it's practically flat. I'll take it.

On the other hand, I had a darker mole on my upper right facial cheek that he removed for $500 and it came back within a few months. I emailed him complaining and he asked me to come back free of charge and repeated it. This time it came back only partially, but I'm not going to bother doing it again. Im just happy it isn't a cancer, which the dermatologist says it is not.

When Vanessa Bayer had cancer as a teenager she should have asked the Make A Wish Foundation for mole removals instead the trip to Hawaii. Oh, she should have also asked for orthodontic work.

Who the fuck is that wildebeest in R55's photo??

I loved Enrique's mole. It made his standout. Now that it's been removed, I wouldn't recognize him walking down the street

I'd recognize him no problem. I'd even lick his dirty pooper after he ate a bean taco.

It's expensive to get one removed. I lied at the free clinic to get mine removed on my chin, saying it was painful (it wasn't). It was ever YUGER when it was pulled out! Like a big, disgusting black slug. I had a scar and small indentation where they removed it for about a year. I'm so glad it's gone!

Im not sure what's more adorable, my name or the mole above my upper lip. So sexy, don't you think? Just like Marilyn!

Bitches, sometimes you can remove the mole but your ass is still unattractive. It's not like removing the mole will help you get laid if you're bigtime overweight, for instance..and by overweight I mean 6-7 pounds max.

[quote] I lied at the free clinic to get mine removed on my chin, saying it was painful (it wasn't). It was ever YUGER when it was pulled out! Like a big, disgusting black slug.

Ewwwww!

Nah, R55, Vanessa Bayers looks fine, they look like freckles!

And wtf are you talking about, orthodontic work? She's got big gums, but that's not something fixed by braces!

My sister has a YUGE one that practically dangles. I asked her why she didn't have it removed back in the days when insurance covered such things and she said she didn't want a scar on her face. I flat out told her she'd look better with a scar than with that friggin mole, but alas, she would not get rid of it. Maybe it's like a child of her face or something, I dunno...

r53, I had the consultation with an In-Network dermatologist, and made sure they checked with my insurance (I work in health insurance) before proceeding to have the skin tags removed. But, if my insurance wouldn't have covered it, I would have gotten a quote for how much I'd be paying before proceeding. If we were talking thousands, then no, I wouldn't have had them removed professionally. But after removing a couple myself, I couldn't see me continuing to do that, when the nurse first applied lidocaine, and the doctor removed them, all in less than a half hour.

[quote]My sister has a YUGE one that practically dangles.

Ewwww!!!!

But where is it? In the middle of her face, or just on her neck where she doesn't usually have to look at it?

It's on the side of her face.

Insurance used to cover the removal of warts, skin tags, moles and sebaceous cysts. We are a very molely, lumpy family. My husband thinks my father was part black, which might be why we have so many black growths. Anyway, I had about 20 scalp cysts removed back when insurance covered them and all my visible moles removed. Now I've got about 10 small cysts on my scalp but I'll be damned -- I'm not paying $350 to have each one removed. My hair cutter can just take a deep breath and deal with it.

I had a tall brilliant creative handsome hung fuckbuddy in college. He had a few moles on his face and torso. Who the hell cares. Its the total package.

[quote] I'm fascinated by people who can find anyone with moles on their face attractive. I would never be able to fuck Gabriel Macht, for instance.

I'd be able to fuck him, but I wouldn't be able to look at his forehead. He has 2 or 3 moles. Everytime I watch his show all I can think about is, "why doesn't he get those removed"?

Jeez you are insufferable prisses. You wouldn't Gabriel as a lover because he has 3 moles?

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A friend on the production staff of "All My Children" told me TPTB would never hire an actor with facial or neck moles. "They distract the viewers."

Tom Suozzi, US Representative from New York has a red birthmark on the right side of his face. Photos always show him from the left. You wonder why his parents allowed him to go through life like this.

R48 would you want to kiss someone with a mole near their mouth? Time to get it sliced-off.

r43, I never saw that movie, but that clip just made be (literally) laugh out loud, for the first time in weeks.

R14's image looks like tripe, aka cow's stomach.

I developed a mole, directly above the space been my eyebrows. As soon as I could, I had it removed. One of my "friends" suggested I replace it with a ruby. Since then, a few others have appeared; they've been removed and insurance always pays.

God I want Phenix Saint to get that huge mole cut off his face, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

R43 thanks thats very funny.

r74, Unfortunately, many of those red birthmarks are not readily treatable. That's why Gorbachev still sports that huge Port-wine stain on his forehead. There are lots of separate skin conditions being discussed in this thread: skin tags are pretty harmless, but annoying. Moles are something different, as are warts, and birthmarks. I've only had skin-tags, but never a mole. But a person with moles needs to consult with a dermatologist every so often, because moles can suddenly become cancerous. I'm not aware that a skin tag might turn cancerous (although if you can correct me about that, please do).

Mole removal should be a topic for Dr Oz

[quote] Mole removal should be a topic for Dr Oz

I'm sure it has been many, many, many times. He's probably had a few episodes where certain $upplements can remove moles. And a few where you can lose weight just by having your moles removed

[quote]But a person with moles needs to consult with a dermatologist every so often, because moles can suddenly become cancerous.

My GP removed a mole from my bicep about a decade ago because I was worried it was turning cancerous. He disagreed, and was a dick about it, too, but I was insistent: I'm a fair-skinned, green-eyed blonde/redhead who's had several dozen sunburns in my life, and the mole's border changed, becoming larger and asymmetrical. That's several huge risk factors combined with three-quarters of the ABCD of skin cancer [Asymmetry, Border, Colour, Diameter], and yet he was a dickweed about it, the stupid old goat >:(

I now have a fairly ugly scar, but it's still better than a gross mole!

Moles are ugly. One of my friends who's into a lot of drag got upset when they airbrushed his mole off the poster. He kept equating it to Cindy Crawford until I reminded him he was man, not an 80's female super model.

Men do not look hot with moles, and in my opinion neither do women. Beauty mark my ass. I got a big fat hemorrhoid, should I flaunt that too?

Melanoma is really scary, please don't screw around with your moles, guys.

I've got a yuuuge mole on my side, at bra-strap length. It looks and feels like a nipple, FFS!

I have a yuge mole on the V of my kitty. To make matters worse, a sebaceous cyst developed immediately next to it. A few weeks later, the cyst popped; whatta mess it was. The resulting wound took forever to heal. (I was afraid to touch it.)

People with moles live longer. Something to do with telomeres.

Moles make me vomit. VOMIT.

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