Pimple patches: hide them or show them off? From Justin Bieber’s mushrooms to Dua Lipa’s stars (opens in new tab)

Not long ago, a pimple patch was the kind of thing you applied alone in the bathroom, hoping it would quietly do its job overnight before anyone had to know about it. Then Gen Z started wearing them out, celebrities started getting papped in them, and suddenly they were a thing. Which brings us to April, when Justin Bieber designed a mushroom-shaped one for his wife Hailey’s skincare brand Rhode, timed to his Coachella headline slot. He sold the patches at a festival activation in the desert ...