At home beauty mark removal?

So these beauty marks on my face were making me feel gross. (flat moles) So i took a nail, and i scraped them off my face, i dug in there pretty well, it was red a blotchy for a week or two, but now it looks pretty healed. When I look closely in a mirror, there's no browness, the old spot looks just like the rest of my skin, however when i take a few steps back, and look in the mirror, the area is still brownish. What is creating this illusion that i cannot see anything up close but from a far it reappears.
I may have to consider getting the nail and scrapping much deeper?