# Hiding Hickeys **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 14, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316 "2000-06-14T06:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/1 "2000-06-14T06:35:31Z")
A uh… :ahem: \*friend[/] of my wife would like to know if anyone has a quick method of getting rid of hickeys. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/2 "2000-06-14T08:24:12Z")
Turtlnecks. Makeup. Those are cover-ups, to get rid of them, you can only wait, just like any other bruise. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/3 "2000-06-14T09:53:54Z")
Try putting a cold spoon on it to reduce any swelling. (Stick spoon in freezer for a little while to get really cold. Teen magazines say the spoon must be silver but I have no idea.) To try and make it less obvious, tell her to use green-tinted make-up. The green will counter-balance the red. ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/4 "2000-06-14T13:55:35Z")
**evilbeth** : > [@](#): > > \*\* > Try putting a cold spoon on it to reduce any swelling. \*\* "_ **SWELLING??!?!?!"** _ Who’s giving you hickeys, hon? Superman? ---
**Author:** ![andyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/5 "2000-06-14T14:21:13Z")
I’ve heard that leeches are good for removing bruises. 😃 _Really, I’m not kidding_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/6 "2000-06-14T17:30:02Z")
Adhesive bandages. You’d be surprised at the places you get accidents when you’re shaving. ---
**Author:** ![JBurton99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@JBurton99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBurton99)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/7 "2000-06-15T04:40:37Z")
Sorry to say, but there is no quick and easy fix for a Hickey unless there is makeup involved. Being male, i never had a problem with them, but my mom ould always rag on me about it, saying it wasn’t good for ya, because in essence, it is a bruise. The method that i have used in the past is an old one, but it works for me. Take a normal everyday hair comb, and comb the Hickey a few times. It seems to break up and heal alot faster that way then if i didn’t comb it. Granted it still takes a while for it to totally heal, but with me, it heals within 36 hours. I don’t know if this works for everybody, or just me, because it’s very, and i mean very hard for me to get a bruide to begin with. If you bruise easy, you might not wanna try combing it. It might make it worse. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/8 "2000-06-15T05:16:30Z")
I never tried to hide them, and only had a visable one once. Sense I played hockey and was a goaltender that I just took a puck off the neck. A few people actually bought it… ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiding-hickeys/22316/9 "2000-06-15T09:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > **evilbeth** : > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > Try putting a cold spoon on it to reduce any swelling. \*\* > > "_ **SWELLING??!?!?!"** _ > > Who’s giving you hickeys, hon? Superman? > \*\* LOL! Actually, right after a hickey is, um, placed, some people find that the area swells slightly. I know that min…my friend’s does, anyway. But “she” has extremely sensitive and fair skin.