I have these hickeys, but I also have short hair. My mom will notice if I start wearing colars and turtlenecks. What is a good way to make them go away faster?
2007-11-06 01:07:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
Applying ice, wrapped in paper towels, will help get rid of a hickey. Any damage done to your skin or the blood vessels in your skin is going to cause some swelling, and swelling will ensure that the veins are constricted and that new blood cannot get in to help fix the damage. An icepack will help prevent swelling around the hickey, but constricts the capillaries as well.Massage will help you get rid of a hickey. This is true of any bruise, really. A hickey is caused by ruptured blood vessels called capillaries just under the skin, which then bleed out into the surrounding tissue and clot. Your blood clotting is the dark bruise you see after about a day or so. Your job is to massage (sometimes with a cold spoon) the bruise to help break up the blood clots and reabsorb the dead tissue into your system.Applying heat to the hickey after 24-48 hours will help get rid of it. What you were doing with the ice was constricting the capillaries to stop further bleeding. Now that the capillaries have healed, it’s time to dilate the capillaries to make sure a lot of fresh new blood can come in and help clean up the mess. Do this with a wash cloth soaked in warm water for several minutes, wrung out, and then applied to the area for five minutes three times a day.
Use a concealer a green tint is the best way to go because concealers with green tint help to reduce blemishes that are red.
2007-11-06 01:14:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hickeys rely on a few matters. One, wherein have been you seeking to depart one? The neck and the within of the elbows and knees are the simplest locations to depart a hickey. You might suck all day on anyone's palm or the backside in their foot and not ever depart a mark. The extra flexibility a portion of epidermis has, the extra inclined to a hickey it's. But, a few folks are most often extra inclined. I should not have a supply, however I feel that females are, typically, extra inclined than guys. Plus the epidermis tone, whilst no longer affecting the capability to get a hickey, can without doubt make an extra or much less stated. There is not any trick to giving a hickey - it's comfortably a type of bruise. If you'll drink via a straw, you'll supply a hickey. If he did not get one, I hate to let you know this, he mainly may not get one. He mainly does not bruise with no trouble both - which is just too unhealthy. No one will ever realize while you deck him for leaving his mark on anyone else.
2016-09-05 11:51:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hickey is basically a bruise. So, how do you get rid of a bruise? You can't. You have to just wait for it to go away. You can TRY this, but it never worked for me.... take a metal spoon, put it in the freezer for at least an hour and then put the icy cold spoon on the hickey. Use liquid cover up and then powder over it to try to conceal it.
My immediate thought on this was: If you're trying to cover a hickey from your mom, then she doesn't know you're being sexually active in any way, does she? Are you using protection? I say, talk to your mom and let her know you're being active and that you need protection. She's going to find out sooner or later.... sooner, probably, if you keep getting hickeys! Use caution and protection. Get some condoms.
2007-11-06 01:16:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have seen this work with my own two eyes-
Get a c or d battery. Lay the flat end against your hickey and rub gently around in a counter-clockwise motion for one minute. It will not be invisible, but I've seen an almost black hickey fade to a little red patch that was a lot easier to hide. Good luck!
Oh, and tell your partner(s) to suck on something mom won't see regularly :)
2007-11-06 01:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by Stormy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a two step process to cover up a hickey. First you need to get they yellowest makeup you can find. They do sell yellow concealer. Very lightly blot it over the dark parts of your hickey. Don't over do it or it will be more noticeable. Then take your regular foundation and put it over top of that. Next time make sure that if you are going to get a hickey, do it where your clothes will naturally cover it up.
2007-11-06 01:13:28 · answer #5 · answered by misty h 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Stop getting them. No seriously there is no way to make them go away. Try buying cover up and use it on your hickey. In a few days they will lighten up.
2007-11-06 01:09:40 · answer #6 · answered by Renee 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
try puting a little makeup over them, and tell your significant other to take it easy on your neck, hickey's look gross and they are unhealthy, all they are is a bruise and that is busted blood vessels, you can kiss easier and more gently, it's not necessary to suck the skin on your neck until it's black and blue.
2007-11-06 01:16:39 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ice and hemeroid cream. i kid you not. Hickeys are bruises and broken blood vessels. Ice helps and the cream reduces redness!!
Your secret is safe with me!!
2007-11-06 01:10:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Go buy a leach. It sucks the blood out that causes the hicky. Maybe you should have told your "mate" to respect you a little bit more and make sure their is no hickys. Hickys can happen out of passion when we are not thinking with our "right head", but they can be prevented to not have to go through what yo are/will. Good luck.
2007-11-06 01:13:14 · answer #9 · answered by pofdog 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
they have to go away on their own try using makeup to cover them and dont let it happen again cause hickeys are gross
2007-11-06 01:10:44 · answer #10 · answered by Jackie W 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋