What to do for blackheads?

I am super into taking care of my skin, and I hate that every time I get my acne to go away in one spot it pops up somewhere else… but lately I've been getting blackheads below my bottom lip and above my chin, that little valley I guess you could say and on my nose and on the sides of my nose. I have this special pimple/blackhead popper and it isn't working and it really hurts to use it anyways. What can I do to get rid of them without leaving scars and peeling my skin off to get to the blackhead? What sources do you have? They are really small and aren't getting any bigger, they just stay like that. I can feel them and I can see them when I look really close in the mirror. Is it too much to ask to have nice, semi-perfect skin? It is such hard work!