It’s easy to mistake them for whiteheads: Small, pale bumps that crop up overnight, clustered under the eyes, on the cheeks, or along the nose. But before you pick up your tweezers or get to squeezing them (bad!), listen up—what looks like a mild breakout or whiteheads could actually be milia, a completely different kind of skin concern that won’t respond to your tried-and-true acne spot treatment, and definitely not to squeezing.

“Milia are tiny cysts that sit just under the skin’s surface,” explains cosmetic physician and head of education at Acquisition Aesthetics, Dr. Emmaline Ashley. “They are full of a protein called keratin, which is commonly found in your hair, nails, and the outer layer of skin.” Milia presents itself as pearly-white bumps; however, they are not inflammatory, inf

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