How to Get Rid of a Hickey

Okay, it was a passionate night! You loved every moment of it and even lived it, in totality. But your mood has been upset after you saw yourself in the mirror early morning. The deep red mark on your neck that can be easily visible to anyone you meet concerns you. Your creative cells of mind are working their best to come up with unique ideas to get rid of that mark, or at least hide them creatively. In abstract sense, that red mark is called love byte or hickey and in dry medical terminology, it's known as ecchymosis or commonly "bruise". Psychologically, it's a sweet gift from your lover and medically, an injury!

While passionately kissing, when your lips have covered his/her skin surface, it creates a vacuum on that part and the soft capillaries break, resulting in hickey. The matter of fact however, is that you have got hickey and that too, on some body part that is easily visible to others. Now, you don't need to fret over this too much, follow the simple principles to get rid of the hickey.

Hickey Removal Tricks
While removing Hickey totally is not possible, there are some simple principles of hickey removal that you can follow and try to get rid of this passion mark.

Work Early
Once the passion has subsided and you're relaxing, your hickey may develop deep and it may be difficult to remove it after some time. So, the earlier it is, the better it would be for your skin. Nevertheless, if you aren't able to spot it very early and it develops into a dark mark, then follow further steps...

Ice, Ice, Baby
Wrap ice cubes in clean and dry towels/papers and apply on the areas where you've got hickey. Keep applying the ice cubes after certain interval of time. The cold pack therapy may help you in hickey removal by constricting the capillaries and blood vessels.

Hot Factor
Just as ice helps in constricting the capillaries, warm cloth can work wonders by eliminating any obstruction in the blood vessel. Soak a tidy cotton cloth in warm water or heat a cloth piece by the help of heater and apply on the hickey affected area. It works, try it!

Wonder Massage
Now, don't imagine that for hickey removal, you've to visit a spa! By massage I mean, a wonder massage by yourself! Yeah, since a hickey is the result of blood clot due to ruptured capillaries in the area, a proper massage from your hands, or by a cold ice can work magic. Massaging can relieve the area of the muscle tension and facilitate easy flow of blood.

Hiding a Hickey
Can't eliminate it? Tried all methods of how to remove a hickey but failed miserably? Worry not. Just hide it! Yeah, as simple as that. Just hide it! Check out your wardrobe. Take out all those possible cloths that you can wear comfortably and hide your hickey (only if it's in the visible area, like from or back neck, face etc.) And ladies must ensure that they're not wearing dresses that exposes the area where they have got hickey else no one would be to blame except you yourself! Girls can try make up to conceal the hickey or they can wear high collar shirts to hide it. For boys, well, there is no rich collection of wardrobe but still they can try something ensuring that they don't look weird.

Lastly, hope that some ways on hickey removal would be beneficial to you. With time, hickey can be removed so there is no need to be overtly embarrassed about it, after all, it's a love byte, a gift from your love!