What you should know about the blemishes on your skin

2. Skin tag

This tiny brown or skin-toned growth is prominent in older people, especially those with diabetes, and in pregnant women. They commonly develop on the neck, around the groin area, under the breast and even the armpits.

While some of them are not harmful, Dr. John Lear, a consultant dermatologist at the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, said you must have them checked especially “if they start start bleeding, itching, feel sore, change in shape, size or color, or crust over.”