If you search for “pimple patches” on social media, you’ll likely get a string of videos showing colorful, elaborately shaped stickers placed haphazardly across the face. A yellow star, a pink heart, a blue butterfly — all dancing on the cheeks of the TikTok cool girls. But I am not that type of girl.What I am is an acne-prone pimple picker who spent her teen years glopping on concealer to hide scabs and red spots. And while prescription medication has mitigated most of my concerns, what’s an unfussy girl with an unending desire to pick at the pimples that still break through to do?The answer is an impulse purchase turned lifelong staple, Hero Cosmetics’s Mighty Patch, which coincidentally has also been named one of Wirecutter’s drugstore skin-care recommendations.My favorite acne fighterHero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original PatchThese translucent hydrocolloid stickers aid pimple healing by absorbing fluid and protecting the blemish from bacteria.$60 $28 from MorningSave (216 patches total)Use promo code FSDEALS, with delayed shipping$13 from Amazon(36 patches)$13 from Ulta(36 patches)Before I started using pimple patches, my at-home solution to stop myself from touching my pimples was slapping a bunch of Band-Aids all over my face. They worked, but I didn’t exactly want to leave the house or jump on work calls looking like that. So in a pinch one day, I grabbed a Mighty Patch pack from my local CVS.