I Spent 12 Years Quietly Hiding These Little Red Dots. Then One Comment Changed Everything.

I had completely given up on the little red dots on my chest. Then I read what other women my age were saying, and everything changed.

By Diane Marsh
Updated June 2026 · 9 min read

I'll never forget the first time I really counted them. Nine. Nine tiny red dots scattered across my chest and collarbone that I had been pretending not to see for years.

I had asked my doctor about the first one ages ago. She barely glanced at it. "Cherry angioma. Harmless. Nothing to worry about." And that was it. Nothing about what to do with it, nothing about what happens when more show up. Just live with it.

So that is exactly what I did. I lived with it. I started reaching for higher necklines without even noticing I was doing it. I kept a little tube of concealer in my bag all summer. I quietly stopped wearing the swimsuit I loved.

By my late forties there were nine of them. I finally priced getting them removed and nearly fell off my chair. Two hundred to four hundred dollars per spot at the dermatologist, for something they had already told me was "nothing." I closed the tab and told myself it did not matter. But it did. Every single summer, it mattered.

I Did Everything Right, and They Just Kept Coming

Here is the part that slowly wore me down. Every website said the exact same two things, over and over: they are harmless, and whatever you do, do not try to remove them at home. So I followed the rules like a good patient. I left them alone. I waited for them to fade the way the internet half-promised they would.

They never faded. They multiplied. Last summer I found a brand new one on my shoulder and something in me just snapped. I was not about to keep covering up for the rest of my life because a doctor shrugged and a website told me to do nothing.

But every time I went looking for a real answer, I hit the same wall. The clinic was too expensive to justify. The "experts" told me not to dare try anything myself. I was stuck exactly where they left me. Resigned.

The Comment That Stopped Me in My Tracks

Now, I am not someone who buys things off the internet on a whim. Every site I trusted had told me at-home removal was a bad idea, and that warning was stuck in the back of my head.

Then one night I was scrolling the comments under a video, the way I always do before I believe anything, and I saw a woman who could have been me. She wrote: "I've had that exact red dot on my collarbone for YEARS and just accepted it. not anymore." Right under her: "My doctor told me it was harmless but never told me I could remove it myself." And then the one that got me: "my derm wanted $300 just to look at mine, so I bought the pen and did it myself."

It was not an ad that changed my mind. It was them. Real women my age, with my exact dots, saying the one thing no doctor had ever told me: you can actually do something about this, and it works.

The #1 Reason Cherry Angiomas Are So Hard to Get Rid Of

Here is what nobody connects for you. These dots are not a one-time thing. They multiply with each decade, and for a lot of us, with each pregnancy. The one you spot at 38 becomes three by 48 and a whole scatter by 58.

And the only "approved" route, the dermatologist, charges you per spot. The more you have, the more it costs, which is exactly when most women give up and start covering instead. The whole thing is built to make you quit. An at-home device flips it: one price, every spot, on your own time.

That comment sent me down a rabbit hole, and I came out the other side with an at-home plasma device made for exactly this. Here is what finally made me trust it:

• Nine adjustable power levels, so you stay in full control
• One device for six common blemishes, not a single-use kit
• Built for mature skin, designed to be used at home

The At-Home Trick That Finally Cleared Them, For Good

It uses a tiny plasma arc, the same thing the clinic uses, at a strength you control, to treat each spot in about five minutes. No needles. No cutting. I was so nervous the first time. I had absolutely no reason to be.

And the routine itself? Almost embarrassingly simple. That is honestly the whole point.

Why the Ocura Plasma Pen Actually Works on Cherry Angiomas

This part is what finally settled my nerves, so I want to explain it the way I wish someone had explained it to me.

A cherry angioma is not the scary thing sitting in the back of your mind. It is just a tiny cluster of blood vessels right under the surface of your skin. That is why it is so bright red, and that is exactly why it is harmless. The plasma gently treats that little cluster at the surface so the spot dries up, scabs, and falls away, the same result you would pay a clinic for, on your own bathroom schedule.

One device, six kinds of common, benign blemishes. That is what "6-in-1" means.

28,000+ People Have Already Cleared Their Red Dots at Home

And I was not first to this. Not even close. Once I started really looking, the proof was everywhere, women posting their own before-and-afters, answering each other's questions, comparing notes on the exact spots I had.

Memphis N.

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Used mine on 3 cherry angiomas last week and they're already fading. So glad I finally tried this.

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Sutton F.

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I was nervous it would hurt but honestly barely felt anything. Way easier than I expected.

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I used mine on 3 skin tags last week and they're already gone. Wish I'd found this years ago.

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How Much Does It Cost?

This is the part that made me feel a little silly for waiting so long. My dermatologist quoted me $200 to $400 per spot. With nine dots, that is over a thousand dollars to clear what I have right now, and it does nothing for the new ones still coming.

The Ocura Plasma Pen is a one-time purchase that handles all of them, and every new one after, for a fraction of what a clinic charges. The current offer changes often, so the honest answer is to check what is available today.

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