Scarlett Johansson’s Biggest Beauty Regret Is So Relatable

Let’s face it: The teen years were filled with questionable decisions for all of us, even award-winning actresses like https://www.newbeauty.com/scarlett-johansson-skin-care-the-outset/”>Scarlett Johansson. In a recent interview with The Cut, the Black Widow herself gets real about the habit she wished she ditched as a kid and reflects on the effects of her piercing phase.

“I wish I didn’t pick my skin so much when I was younger, I could’ve avoided so much https://www.newbeauty.com/monkeypox-rashes-and-scarring/”>scarring and drama,” Johansson said when asked about her biggest beauty regrets, “It is really hard for me to get over that compulsive need to touch my face a lot or pick my skin.” The actress explains that she struggled with picking her skin immensely as a kid, but benefited a lot from her sister’s honest advice that, in reality, no one is looking at her https://www.newbeauty.com/free-gift-friday-dermaflash-dermapore/”>pores that closely. “It was the simplest advice but really true for me especially because I can get compulsive about my skin.”

Though we might never guess from the star’s clean-cut, mature look, Johansson also revealed to The Cut that her bold, piercing phase in her teens has also left some lasting damage on her complexion. “I had a pretty unfortunate eyebrow piercing when I was 15, which luckily my body rejected—looking back on photographs, it was not as cool as I thought it was.” Though the actress thanks her parents for letting her experiment with her self-expression, she wishes that she had listened to her mom’s advice that an eyebrow piercing was “passé”, since she has struggled with a piercing scar ever since. “Every makeup artist is like, ‘What is this? Did you hit your forehead?’ No, I wish,” she jokes.

No matter how far in the past our teen years may feel, sometimes it’s hard not to think back on our younger selves and cringe a little bit. But, it is comforting to know that even our favorite A-lister’s have struggled with bad habits and bad decisions. We’re here for the honesty, ScarJo.