Skin concerns
Many small bumps on the face are not acne. Milia, sebaceous filaments, sebaceous hyperplasia and Fordyce spots look alike but have different causes, and most get worse with squeezing or scrubbing. These articles help you tell them apart by sight and explain what, if anything, helps each one. A bump that bleeds, grows or changes should be checked by a clinician.
Pores are fixed openings, so nothing opens or closes them. Oil, support around the pore and how full it is change how big it looks, and what has measurably shrunk pores is clinic treatment.
Bumps, dips, dryness, lines and pores all get called texture. What you feel under a fingertip sorts them, and a single exfoliation changes how skin feels for days, not its structure.
White spots on lips are usually Fordyce spots, oil glands with no hair follicle. They are not an infection, and the 80% prevalence figure repeated for them has no source on its page.
Press one and nothing happens. That is not a technique problem — there is nothing inside to extract, because the bump is not a blocked pore. It is the gland itself, enlarged.
If you have been treating small white bumps near your eyes as whiteheads for months and nothing has changed, there is a structural reason. A milium has no opening — so nothing you apply can reach it.
The tiny grey dots covering your nose are probably not blackheads. They are a normal part of how skin works, they refill within days, and the things sold to remove them are mostly making them more visible.
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