I want to start off by saying that I value my life. I also love my girlfriend. Oops! Gave her a hickey where she can’t cover it with her hair.(my favorite method of birth control, BTW) If her parents see it she’ll be grounded and I will be six feet underground at best. SOS.
What is the best way to remove a hickey? This might be IMHO territory, but I’m hoping that there is one sure fire way. Let me add that the faster this works the better.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, but a hickey is caused by broken capillaries, just like any other bruise. No quick fix.
You should have put ice on it right away. (Now there’s a good birth control method.)
Hey, we talked about this before…I don’t think its the same girl though.
Why’d you do that to her if you know her folks would react as they might?
Had a similar problem in high school and was desperate to try anything–including a friend’s hare-brained scheme that, quite surprisingly, actually worked.
Get a flat plastic comb with wide teeth and wide gaps between them.
Place the comb at a 45 degree angle to skin affected area and comb with moderate pressure across the discolored area.
Maybe 10-20 times, from down to up, then another 10-20 times from side to side.
When you’re done, you’ll have a big patch of red, irritated skin. This fades over the next 20 minutes or so.
You should notice now that the discolored area is slightly larger and slightly fainter than before, but still quite noticeable.
Repeat over the next few hours until the discoloration is gone.
Good luck.
My uncle once said that when he was in the Navy if you got into a fight you could go to the local “doctor” and get a leach to suck the blood out of a bruise. I don’t know where he was stationed. I hope he was kidding me.
Actually, I have heard of using leaches to get rid of hickies. One of my elementary school teachers told me about a friend of hers who managed to get a black eye (by and accident, not a fight) the day before her wedding. A doctor put a leach on it and it took care of it.
Now, how much of that is true, well…
“A doctor put a leach on it and it took care of it.”
This seems to be one of the most scientifically upsupported questions that I have ever seen on the board.
Applying toothpaste to the affected area works. User your plain, basic, white Colgate. The fancy stuff is not necessary. I am not sure what it does, but it does work to lighten the area. Wash the toothpaste off before contact with the parents is suspected.
Hickies suck! Why would you want to leave a bruise on someone you are crazy about? If it is to mark your territory, so to speak, isn’t that being just a bit possesive?
Good one, Meephead!
Turn a vacuum on reverse and apply the end.
I agree; hickies are EEEEEEEEWWWWWWW.
The kids I went to school with didn’t focus so much upon removal or camouflage, as they did creating some lame story as to how this very particular “injury” befell them in such a peculiar place.
Girls frequently cited a wayward curling iron, and one guy actually convinced his folks that while working underneath his recently ridden dirtbike he positioned his neck awkwardly alongside the exhaust pipe and when contact was inadvertantly made - a strange burn looking remarkabley like a hickey appeared in his neck. The key I think was boldness…showing absolutely no guilt or evasive behavior -
After all -why should you? This is just some routine exhaust-pipe-neck-burn, happens all the time.
Good luck.
Thanks! blushing 
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