How do you diminish the purple color of stomach stretch marks?

Question

When I was younger, I was short. Over night I grew to my full height and now years later I have these ugly purplish pink stretch marks running length wise down my tummy. Is there any way to fade the color so it doesn't stand out so much? And does makeup help to lighten the color?

Answer 1

Aloe Vera Works incredibly well.

They say when you have babies you get darker stetch marks, my mom had some really bad dark ones and she used aloe vera lotion by Jergens (real cheap BTW) for about three months every night before she went to bed and they got lighter and lighter progressively.

I recently gained alot of weight and then lost it all so i had a few pink ones on my belly. I used aloe vera as well but i used the actual plant. Its kinda like a catus you cut the leaf and theres like a sticky milk like substance in there, thats the aloe vera, i rubbed it on for about three WEEKS every night (it was nasty but worth it,) and now, they are gone!

Answer 2

Unfortunatley I heard stretch marks are never diminishable. Skin that is overstretch has a hard time remembering its shape. Its like when a person has gastric by-pass. They lose so much weight at one time they have all this excess skin..Then they have to go get it trimmed off. The best bet would be to stay physically activem, and toneing muscle

Answer 3

Try one of those scar removal creams, I think one is named Mederma or something like that. I used vitamin E oil on my stretch marks when I had a baby but since then I have heard that it isn't great for the body or something. But that also works really great on stretch marks or scars.

Answer 4

Microderm abrasion

Contact a high end salon with a facialist. Often time it will take several visits and it will itch and ache....yet it will help.

Its about $60-80 per visit and $50 for the special cream and you will need to go every two weeks or once a month for at least 6-8 visits...so its not cheap. Yet I have seen it change them radically.

Answer 5

Makeup would help, and there are estheticians who are skilled in applying makeup to cover scars. They usually charge $50 for a makeup lesson to teach you how to do it. But on your tummy, that'd be hard to apply there, I'd think. And it might rub off onto your clothes.

My 1st source listed below is VERY accurate and helpful in knowing more about stretch marks. Paula Begoun, (aka "Cosmetics Cop") bases her articles off of medical research.

I'm not without a few stretch marks, scars, and weird purple veins on my legs, and I find that sunless tanning helps them not be so noticable. If you go to my sunless.com source listed below, there's good info on using airbrush solution (waaaay better than drugstore sunless tanner!).... If I can't get my hubby to spray me, I mix the solution with a good lotion and apply that way. Hard to get the hang of when you first start, but you'll get better at it.

Answer 6

Read some very effective tips on how to get rid of stretch marks and more on this site to help you

Answer 7

I heard somewhere that keeping an even tan can lesson the noticability of them. I don't know for sure though. Seems easy enough though.

Answer 8

just get out on a beach somewere and tan till your golden seriously this is the best way to cover up discolouration. .//*

but don't put make up on your stomach my freind tryed this on her legs and came out in a rash lol shes adicted to make-up

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Answer 9

Maybe a bruise I don't know I'm not a professional sorry

Answer 10

there's no other cure for strecth mark other than going to some speacialist for the skin,like plastic surgeons..coz i myself have it,i try to put some ointment to replenish it..but nothing happens..i just waste my money on it..if you still have time..save some money for it..like what i did..