Dermatologist Sandra Lee -- better known as Dr. Pimple Popper -- is hartford sex videosnot your typical Instagram star. Instead of beauty tutorials or fashion hauls, Dr. Lee is known for her oozing, explosive, forever satisfying pimple popping videos.

She has a TLC show, a skincare line, and now she's released "Pimple Pete," an Operation-like tabletop game where players gently pull stubborn zits out of poor acne-prone Pete. If you pull too hard, Pete's pimple-ridden face will squirt you.

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We caught up with Dr. Lee at her headquarters in Los Angeles to talk about Pimple Pete, her go-to skincare products, and the (very few) things that actually gross her out.

The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity. 

Mashable: Is there anything too disgusting or gory that you won't put on Instagram?

I don't put things on that are life threatening, like cancer, because I don't think that that's nice for me to do. Even though they're anonymous, I want to respect them, and they've obviously agreed to do this so I'm not gonna just exploit them. I've definitely posted scrotal calcinosis, where you have cysts on the scrotum. This guy was like 24, never had a girlfriend, his parents don't even know ... I think it's important to show people that this is something that you can have and you're normal. He didn't know anyone else who had ever had it. He didn't know what this was. It was a big deal for him to see me in the first place.

But I have had women who've had big blackheads on their private area, and I don't usually take photos just because it's a private area. I can find a good blackhead somewhere else. I don't need to show that area of somebody.

I don't want to say most disgusting, because it seems insensitive ...

Most shocking.

Yeah, what is your most shocking case?

The ones that are most shocking to me are the ones that get you. They squirt. We have protective gear, but sometimes you might even forget your protective gear and not expect that something's gonna get you.

If you get cyst on your hair, it's sort of like a campfire when you smell it. You gotta take a shower. You get it on your arm, you feel like it's acid on you. When you have an infected cyst or inflamed cyst (it's called an abscess at that point) that can be messy. Those are probably the most gruesome.

The most amazing ones, on the other hand, are actually called a dilated pore of wiener -- the giant blackheads. Because they just shell out whole. They're very clean. There's no blood. They're not very gory. It's just amazing that they're like a kitchen sink plug stuck in somebody and you just pull it out and that's it! They're done! 

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Do you ever have to suppress a gag reflex? How do you do that while still staying sensitive to your patients? 

I have to be careful with that, and I definitely don't really do that when I'm doing cysts or something. If something's infected, it can smell bad, but I think I've conditioned myself not to do that because I'm so aware -- and my staff knows this too, they know to never go ahhh oh my god.We never say anything. We try not to get excited because these people are coming in a very vulnerable state. You don't want them to feel embarrassed about it. 

I definitely have to suppress a little gag when I have to deal with somebody's toes or toenail fungus. My husband is a dermatologist, and he removes toenails -- I can't do that, that's too disgusting. It's like, barbaric, it's like, ugh. 

It's so interesting that you're not disgusted by, like, cysts, but you are by other gross things. 

Yeah, I'm also very scared of scary movies. I can't watch anyone else's popping videos. Don't send them to me. I will not watch them. I cannot even look at them. Never, never send me like, a horse abscess or something. That is disgusting to me. 

Is it just any popping video that grosses you out or specifically non-human ones?

Non-human bothers me ... They can't tell you they're in pain. How do I know someone's not numb? I know my patients are numb, and comfortable, and [they're in] a sterile clean area. Versus somebody who's at their pool, and somebody's mashing at their back with toilet paper, and this other girl's drinking right next to them ... I just can't stand that stuff. 

Speaking of that DIY stuff, what do you think of how easy it is to share DIY skincare tips, like putting baking soda and Elmer's glue on your face to get rid of blackheads? 

I have a lot of problems with that, and I also have problems with people misrepresenting themselves too. I think there's a lot of danger -- obviously, we get patients that Google something and think they're gonna die. If I Google warts, there's like hundreds of options, and I'm sure most of them don't work. The internet is like the wild west, that's part of why I make my videos. I think we educate people while we entertain them. And that's why I created this skincare line -- SLMD Skincare is a line that has medical treatment options for people that can't see a dermatologist. I have the responsibility to give them the right information. 

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So acne is deeply personal and obviously a source of insecurity for a lot of people. Can you tell me about the emotional recovery process with your patients? 

I say often that acne doesn't threaten your life, but it can absolutely threaten your emotional wellbeing. The issue with acne is that it happens to most of us during this really formative time in our life. This time when we're just trying to figure out who we are. If you have acne it really puts a damper on that, figuring out your personality and how to interact with others.

That's why it's important to treat it, more so for the emotional side of it. There's so many patients that come in that have hardly any acne at all, but their mom or dad dragged them in because they had bad acne. They don't want their kid to go through the same thing, it left such an impact in their life. 

Do you ever see a noticeable change in your patients before and after recovery? 

Yes, absolutely! You see them in the beginning, they don't look at you in the eye. They don't smile. I mean I've seen people with just the worst acne -- it looks like they put ground hamburger meat on their face. It can be that bad. And if you can change that, they're forever grateful.

You see them come out of their shell. You see them smile. You see them look at you in the face. You hear that they're going out with their friends. A lot of us I'm sure have had one single monstrous zit and we don't go out with your friends. So imagine you had it all over your face, and you had to go to school. That is a terrible thing to have to go through, and it really affects your life. 

There's a pretty big trend of treating skincare as a form of self-care, almost as if it's meditative. What do you think of that?

I think that's wonderful! Especially if it's not overdone. You don't want to be meditating for like two hours in the bathroom. Because anything can become an obsession! I think so much of skin conditions has to do with control. A lot of times, we have a skin condition, and it's not under control. There's no cure. Or you have acne, and you've tried everything, and you can't get past it. So if allowing you to do a simple pattern all the time gives you control, and you see results with it, then of course that's a great thing to do. 

Some people go "I'm using this thing that costs $300," and I don't think it has anything in it that is doing anything for them. But they say they love it, and it's changing their skin, so I'm like, "go for it." So much has to do with your mind and whether you feel like you can do to change your skin. If you need that, and you feel like it's doing something for you, I'm not gonna tell you that's bullshit. 

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What is your personal, holy grail thing to use? 

Sunscreen and Retin-A. Absolutely. Retin-A has been around for years, and we know it helps with anti-aging. Sunscreen is really important, and I think a lot of people know that, but I still don't think people are using it properly. FDA control is very strict about the rules of sunscreen itself so you have to be broad spectrum protection.But makeup does not have to abide by those rules, so foundation or makeup that has sunscreen is not necessarily the same level of sunscreen protection. That is something people don't realize. 

And if you're getting a tan at all, it means you don't have enough sunscreen. Obviously it makes us look good. I like myself better with a tan. But it means you've done damage. It's still skin scrambling to protect itself from the sun. 

Can you tell me why you've created this toy?

Because people need to have the same feeling that I have when I work! People want to live through me! They see the satisfaction from my videos, being popaholics. This gives people an opportunity to be like me, but play a game. Also I feel like it shows the seriousness of what I do, the fact that I'm not reckless, you have to do it right. Because if not, you get splashed.