how to get rid of hickeys?

Question

how cud i get rid of a hickey and how long does it take for it to go away?

Answer 1

All I did was put "hickey remove" into my search engine and this is what I found, on wikipedia (easier to do your own research than post here):

"Do Immediately
Apply an icepack to the hickey. Do this as soon as possible after receiving the hickey. You can wrap some ice in a towel, use a pre-frozen ice pack, or put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Gently hold the cold compress to the skin for several minutes (up to 20 minutes, if it doesn’t feel too uncomfortable), remove the compress for several minutes, and then apply it again.
Try the toothbrush or comb method. Many people swear by it, but it’s important to remember that a hickey is a bruise, and most bruises just take time to disappear, so don’t expect a miracle.
Lightly brush the hickey and the area around it with a stiff-bristled toothbrush or a comb. Doing this breaks up the blood clot and gets circulation going again.
Wait about 15 minutes. The redness and swelling will spread, but will be less obvious after about 15 minutes.
Apply a cold compress, as above.
Repeat if necessary. Depending on the magnitude of your hickey this method may work, or it may just spread the discoloration a bit (it can make it worse if you press too hard.)
Conceal the hickey with makeup. The most effective makeup will be the green-tinted concealer, as it is designed to negate red skin tones. Apply a foundation that’s a little lighter than your skin tone. Apply it directly on the hickey and all around it so it doesn’t look obvious that you’re trying to conceal something. You can try an eyeshadow that’s lighter than your skin tone if you don’t have a concealer.
Cover the hickey with something. Wear a turtleneck, a collared shirt or blouse, or a scarf (appropriate for the weather of course), around your neck. If you have long hair, style it so that it hangs down over the hickey. Frequently check the positioning of your shirt or your hair to make sure the hickey is still covered.
Use a coin. This method is probably the most painful, but has proven VERY effective. First, stretch the skin flat (pulling away from the hickey on two opposite sides works well for this). Then, use the edge of a large coin to scrape the skin. Use the coin as if the red area of the skin was butter on toast that needed to be spread outward. The only difference is that you must press quite HARD (do it as hard as you can, but not so hard that you break the skin or cause bleeding). What this does is push the excess blood, which has escaped from the capillaries, out of the surface skin. There will be redness from the scraping of the coin, but that will go away much faster than the hickey. And in any case, a scrape is much less conspicuous than a hickey.
Put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Apply pressure and slide the spoon along the hickey. The pressure and coldness help disperse the blood that has formed. You will need to repeat freezing, if the spoon starts getting warm it does not work. You will also need to use quite a bit of pressure with the spoon but you will see results over a few minutes of doing this.



Long Term Solutions
Apply arnica salve. Arnica is an herbal salve that helps reduce swelling and can minimize the appearance of a hickey. (Some people claim Witch Hazel will shorten hickey healing time.)
Eat healthy foods. A healthy diet can help any bruise heal more quickly.
Increase your intake of vitamin P (also called bioflavonoids). Examples of foods that contain significant amounts of bioflavonoids: lemons, green peppers, broccoli, and rose hips. The primary job of bioflavonoids is to protect the capillaries, keep them strong and prevent them from bleeding. The converse of this equals a hickey.
Use Vitamin K cream (aloe vera and vitamin E don't hurt either). Vitamin K helps reabsorb the blood stuck near the surface of the skin that causes the appearance of a hickey (more specifically the redness or brownness). Also increase your intake of vitamin K by eating green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, green cabbage, kale, Swiss chard, turnip greens, broccoli, tomatoes as well as exceptional meats like liver.
Apply heat to a hickey that lasts more than a couple days. Saturate a washcloth in hot water, wring it out, and hold it to your skin for several minutes. Reheat the washcloth with more water as necessary.
Do Immediately
Apply an icepack to the hickey. Do this as soon as possible after receiving the hickey. You can wrap some ice in a towel, use a pre-frozen ice pack, or put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Gently hold the cold compress to the skin for several minutes (up to 20 minutes, if it doesn’t feel too uncomfortable), remove the compress for several minutes, and then apply it again.
Try the toothbrush or comb method. Many people swear by it, but it’s important to remember that a hickey is a bruise, and most bruises just take time to disappear, so don’t expect a miracle.
Lightly brush the hickey and the area around it with a stiff-bristled toothbrush or a comb. Doing this breaks up the blood clot and gets circulation going again.
Wait about 15 minutes. The redness and swelling will spread, but will be less obvious after about 15 minutes.
Apply a cold compress, as above.
Repeat if necessary. Depending on the magnitude of your hickey this method may work, or it may just spread the discoloration a bit (it can make it worse if you press too hard.)
Conceal the hickey with makeup. The most effective makeup will be the green-tinted concealer, as it is designed to negate red skin tones. Apply a foundation that’s a little lighter than your skin tone. Apply it directly on the hickey and all around it so it doesn’t look obvious that you’re trying to conceal something. You can try an eyeshadow that’s lighter than your skin tone if you don’t have a concealer.
Cover the hickey with something. Wear a turtleneck, a collared shirt or blouse, or a scarf (appropriate for the weather of course), around your neck. If you have long hair, style it so that it hangs down over the hickey. Frequently check the positioning of your shirt or your hair to make sure the hickey is still covered.
Use a coin. This method is probably the most painful, but has proven VERY effective. First, stretch the skin flat (pulling away from the hickey on two opposite sides works well for this). Then, use the edge of a large coin to scrape the skin. Use the coin as if the red area of the skin was butter on toast that needed to be spread outward. The only difference is that you must press quite HARD (do it as hard as you can, but not so hard that you break the skin or cause bleeding). What this does is push the excess blood, which has escaped from the capillaries, out of the surface skin. There will be redness from the scraping of the coin, but that will go away much faster than the hickey. And in any case, a scrape is much less conspicuous than a hickey.
Put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Apply pressure and slide the spoon along the hickey. The pressure and coldness help disperse the blood that has formed. You will need to repeat freezing, if the spoon starts getting warm it does not work. You will also need to use quite a bit of pressure with the spoon but you will see results over a few minutes of doing this.



Long Term Solutions
Apply arnica salve. Arnica is an herbal salve that helps reduce swelling and can minimize the appearance of a hickey. (Some people claim Witch Hazel will shorten hickey healing time.)
Eat healthy foods. A healthy diet can help any bruise heal more quickly.
Increase your intake of vitamin P (also called bioflavonoids). Examples of foods that contain significant amounts of bioflavonoids: lemons, green peppers, broccoli, and rose hips. The primary job of bioflavonoids is to protect the capillaries, keep them strong and prevent them from bleeding. The converse of this equals a hickey.
Use Vitamin K cream (aloe vera and vitamin E don't hurt either). Vitamin K helps reabsorb the blood stuck near the surface of the skin that causes the appearance of a hickey (more specifically the redness or brownness). Also increase your intake of vitamin K by eating green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, green cabbage, kale, Swiss chard, turnip greens, broccoli, tomatoes as well as exceptional meats like liver.
Apply heat to a hickey that lasts more than a couple days. Saturate a washcloth in hot water, wring it out, and hold it to your skin for several minutes. Reheat the washcloth with more water as necessary.
Do Immediately
Apply an icepack to the hickey. Do this as soon as possible after receiving the hickey. You can wrap some ice in a towel, use a pre-frozen ice pack, or put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Gently hold the cold compress to the skin for several minutes (up to 20 minutes, if it doesn’t feel too uncomfortable), remove the compress for several minutes, and then apply it again.
Try the toothbrush or comb method. Many people swear by it, but it’s important to remember that a hickey is a bruise, and most bruises just take time to disappear, so don’t expect a miracle.
Lightly brush the hickey and the area around it with a stiff-bristled toothbrush or a comb. Doing this breaks up the blood clot and gets circulation going again.
Wait about 15 minutes. The redness and swelling will spread, but will be less obvious after about 15 minutes.
Apply a cold compress, as above.
Repeat if necessary. Depending on the magnitude of your hickey this method may work, or it may just spread the discoloration a bit (it can make it worse if you press too hard.)
Conceal the hickey with makeup. The most effective makeup will be the green-tinted concealer, as it is designed to negate red skin tones. Apply a foundation that’s a little lighter than your skin tone. Apply it directly on the hickey and all around it so it doesn’t look obvious that you’re trying to conceal something. You can try an eyeshadow that’s lighter than your skin tone if you don’t have a concealer.
Cover the hickey with something. Wear a turtleneck, a collared shirt or blouse, or a scarf (appropriate for the weather of course), around your neck. If you have long hair, style it so that it hangs down over the hickey. Frequently check the positioning of your shirt or your hair to make sure the hickey is still covered.
Use a coin. This method is probably the most painful, but has proven VERY effective. First, stretch the skin flat (pulling away from the hickey on two opposite sides works well for this). Then, use the edge of a large coin to scrape the skin. Use the coin as if the red area of the skin was butter on toast that needed to be spread outward. The only difference is that you must press quite HARD (do it as hard as you can, but not so hard that you break the skin or cause bleeding). What this does is push the excess blood, which has escaped from the capillaries, out of the surface skin. There will be redness from the scraping of the coin, but that will go away much faster than the hickey. And in any case, a scrape is much less conspicuous than a hickey.
Put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Apply pressure and slide the spoon along the hickey. The pressure and coldness help disperse the blood that has formed. You will need to repeat freezing, if the spoon starts getting warm it does not work. You will also need to use quite a bit of pressure with the spoon but you will see results over a few minutes of doing this.



Long Term Solutions
Apply arnica salve. Arnica is an herbal salve that helps reduce swelling and can minimize the appearance of a hickey. (Some people claim Witch Hazel will shorten hickey healing time.)
Eat healthy foods. A healthy diet can help any bruise heal more quickly.
Increase your intake of vitamin P (also called bioflavonoids). Examples of foods that contain significant amounts of bioflavonoids: lemons, green peppers, broccoli, and rose hips. The primary job of bioflavonoids is to protect the capillaries, keep them strong and prevent them from bleeding. The converse of this equals a hickey.
Use Vitamin K cream (aloe vera and vitamin E don't hurt either). Vitamin K helps reabsorb the blood stuck near the surface of the skin that causes the appearance of a hickey (more specifically the redness or brownness). Also increase your intake of vitamin K by eating green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, green cabbage, kale, Swiss chard, turnip greens, broccoli, tomatoes as well as exceptional meats like liver.
Apply heat to a hickey that lasts more than a couple days. Saturate a washcloth in hot water, wring it out, and hold it to your skin for several minutes. Reheat the washcloth with more water as necessary. "

Answer 2

A hickey, also known as a kiss mark or love bite, is actually a kind of bruise. Hickies result from kissing or sucking the skin too hard, causing broken capillaries and pooling blood that turns the skin red or purple. A hickey can last more than a week, but will heal with time. Once healed, there is rarely any kind of scar or mark left behind. However, having a hickey where other people can see it is quite embarrassing. You can hide hickies with clothing or makeup.

Answer 3

try this take a spoon and place it in the freezer for a few hours then take it and softly rub over the hickey a hickey is blood that has risen up to form a shallow bruise. the cold spoon will force the blood back down making the hicky less noticable apply a thin layer of skin tone make-up and a few days of repeating this a few times a day and its gone.

Answer 4

put toothpaste on it its been a long time since I have had a hickey so I don't remember how long does it take but I know it works

Answer 5

ok tooth i was in the same situation about a month ago. putting toothpaste worked on it best, but i slept with toothpaste on my neck and it burned through the skin and so it made the problem worse so only put it on for like half an hour. preperation H is supposed to work to but its sort of a gross thought putting it on your neck. icing it right away helps and freezing a spoon and putting that on it is supposed to work but i didn't have that much success with that. lastly get concealer a couple of shades lighter than your skin to hide it. and try not to make it obvious to anyone and wear shirts with longer collars or pop your collars. good luck, i was unsuccesful because i had two big ones and only like 2 days to hide it and they were scabs from sleeping with the toothpaste on it.

Answer 6

It will take a few weeks to go away. I never did find away to get rid of them and believe me I tried. Good Luck. I once had one and made this guy believe it did it when he didn't.

Answer 7

You can't get rid of it you just have to let it go away on it's own. If it's a real dark purple plum looking one then it will take almost a week to go away.

Answer 8

Only time (2-4 days) can get rid of it. In the meantime, wear a scarf.

Answer 9

it takes about like 3-4 days to go away

Answer 10

Many, many years ago, we used to put toothpaste on them to make them go away faster. Don't know if it really worked, but we all did it.

Answer 11

you can't. it goes away on it's own in about one or two days.