Starface crafts star-shaped pimple patches to help with stubborn acne.

Brian Bordainick

Julie Schott

Fun unboxing 📦

Good for gifts 🎁

Innovative product

Cool look & feel

Worth the money 💸

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Starface

Skin Care

Acne & Blemishes

It does not stick to your face and slips easily. More form that function. Many other brands make better patches that help with acne.

I find the blue salicylic acid patches don't stick / stay as well as the original yellow patches. 

I love the original yellow star face patches! They make having a breakout something fun instead of something scary. Great staying power, and the portable case with the built in mirror is great for on the go / a sneaky touch up after workout classes, etc.

I think the patches themselves are not as effective as other patches. I feel like they are not "soaking" up all of the pimple whereas when I use other brand names, they work to almost eliminate the pimple.

I love Starface however I feel like the patches do not work as well as other patches like Mightypatch. The look of the packaging is so cute and convenient and who doesn't love a pimple patch that is super cute. 

I think quality can be improved! Packaging and branding are really fun, but the pimple patches themselves don't work as well as other brands on the market!

Love the branding! Pimples are weirdly sometimes kinda taboo but this brings a fun element to 'em! 

I purchased these after the Starface x Stoney Clover Lane collab a few months back.

Packaging is cute and I really like the case, however, they don't work as well as drawing 'icks' out of pimples as some other brands of pimple patches do. Most of the time that I put these on, there's a pimple still under there hours later. This does not happen with my fav brand of pimple patches.

don't work as well as other competitor patches.

i wouldn't purchase again.

the message is body/acne-positive, but the patches themselves don't work well. there are many other hydrocolloid patches that i'd choose before starface, rather than just pay for the aesthetic.

The formulations... stickers don't do anything! And they don't stick on very well either, compared to other brands I've tried.

Cute packaging and fun to use but doesn't really do anything

I wanted to love Starface since it's so cute but it fell short of expectations. The patches fall right off and the ones that stay on aren't really doing anything. 

They look cute but they don’t work very well! The patches are too small and don’t stick very well, so they don’t really work. 

The efficacy of the product-- I don't personally feel like they work. I know the star shape is critical to the brand but I feel like it doesn't adhere to the skin/pimples properly.

The branding is so cute, but personally the products do not do it for me! The stickers don't really stay on my face, and I don't actually think they worked for me at all. Perfect for someone who wants random star stickers on their face, but for someone needing a pimple to go away asap? Probably use a different brand.

Love these little stars. I wear them on small blemishes and red spots either when I go to sleep or for a few hours during the day and they actually reduce redness and help get all the gunk out of your pores. They also have cute partnerships to make special patches with brands like SpongeBob and Hello Kitty. 