A mother feared she'd contracted HIV after large boils erupted on her face after she paid for £60 anti-wrinkle jabs from a beautician who she claims used a 'dirty needle'. Kat Ramsey, from Kent ...

Both cause circular growths or lumps on the skin and can look similar. A boil looks like a large pimple—a swollen ring of red with one or more white or yellow pus-filled sores (pustules).