Right now, I am at work, treating an angry patch of stress acne that has blossomed across my nose and cheeks while listening to Anti (Deluxe) on Spotify, and also writing this story. According to Forbes, millennials like me love to multi-task, because we grew up with technology that encouraged us to do so, and also, hmm, I am reading now that it is lowering our IQs and causing early career burnout. Whatever! I love it. I feel very productive.

In twenty minutes, I will be on the subway, playing an iPhone game called Mini Metro, in which you build a fictional subway system for a bunch of nonfictional cities, and I will also be treating my acne at the same time. Mini Metro is supremely calming.

In an hour, I will be at the grocery store, looking at different versions of baguettes for a week's worth of lunch sandwiches, and I will also be treating my acne at the same time. Does it matter if you get whole grain versus white? The French eat white bread all the time, and they seem so healthy and generally in good spirits. I don't even smoke! I'll get the white bread.

Tonight, I will sleep fitfully, my IQ will descend another half-point, and I will be treating my acne at the same time, with these Korean clear pimple patches I love and constantly forget I am wearing.

Pimple patches will not be new to you if you are a Korean beauty blogger. They're small adhesive circles made of hydrocolloid that you stick on to your pimples and then go about your day wearing. Hydrocolloid is a bandage with absorptive properties. It's impermeable against bacteria but retains moisture. Perfect for dressing uninfected burn wounds, according to several websites specifically devoted to parsing different ways to dress injuries.

Also perfect for acne.

At some point in my life, I was informed that drying out a pimple was the best way to get rid of it. By draining a pimple of the moisture and oil upon which it thrives, you literally bleed it dry, and it goes away overnight.

This is a lie! In fact, drying out a pimple makes things worse: Dry skin worsens inflammation. Pimples love inflammation. Moisture is a good thing. Please continue to keep your pimples moist.

But the genius of the pimple patch is not that it retains moisture, nor that it can perform at any time and place. The genius of the pimple patch is that it is basically a clear sticker that serves no purpose other than to sit on your face. This is, I am positive, the best way to treat a pimple.

Unless your acne is related to a specific skin disorder—like, for example, a hormone imbalance—the best defense is to leave it the hell alone. Don't sandblast it with some pink gunk you found at CVS. Do not—oh my God—DO NOT touch it. That makes it worse. Pimple patches provide a smooth barrier between a zit and the outside world. The best ones are translucent and barely perceptible—I have worn CosRX's Clear Fit Master Patches for hours without my boyfriend noticing. Give a pimple its own private space to calmly work out its problems, at which point, it will gracefully and expediently leave your face.

Certain corners of the web credit the success of pimple patches to the absorptive powers of hydrocolloid, but I don't think this is the case. If it were, hydrocolloid would be the most effective way to treat an infected wound, instead of a marginally effective way to treat noninfected burns and an ineffective way to treat venous or diabetic foot ulcers. (Simple dressings like gauze work just as well!) I think this is hype.

But any product that allows your body's natural healing processes to work unimpeded is a good product. It's icing on the cake if that product can dress a small wound in a very specific time of need. It's small, intricate fondant flowers on top of the icing on the cake if a product can seamlessly blend into almost any activity you are currently performing, including the one you’re doing right now. Multi-tasking: It's a thing of beauty.

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