Comments on: How to Get Rid of a Hickey

on 8/8/2006 If you own a tie and want to hide a hickey from your parents, just wear the tie, but make sure the hickey is where the tie can cover it well.

on 8/8/2006 This works great. Take a toothbrush and brush the hickey up and down, it will disappear in front of your eyes.

on 8/8/2006 This tip is not for the huge purple hickeys, but for the red ones.
Use a nickel, get it wet so it's painless, and rub it up and down your hickey. The key is to get the blood circulating again, so don't use ice because ice slows down circulation. Use a paper towel and get it wet with hot water and hold. Repeat until you see no more broken blood vessels. Voil!

on 8/8/2006 The natural enzymes in tuna are great for the capillary vessels which carry the blood. Make sure you use the tuna in oil, so it will stick to your skin nice and well.

Apply a think coat of tuna to your bruise (hickey) and let it sit for about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes take a hot blow dryer to it for about 5 minutes. The heat will activate the enzymes and almost instantly you will notice the hickey disappearing!

Good luck!

on 8/8/2006 Follow these steps:
1. Get a cup of water.
2. Heat the water until it is warm.
3. Place a tea bag in the water (until it is well dampened).
4. Put the tea bag on your hickey.
5. Let the tea bag sit until it cools.
6. Repeat the process until the hickey goes away.

on 8/8/2006 Take the cap off any lipstick. Place the cap directly on the hickey and twist in a circular motion. It may hurt a little bit, but somehow, it makes the hickey less noticeable.

on 8/8/2006 Just use a cover up (like Dermablend) and lipstick.

on 8/8/2006 I have very light skin, and the mark was dark! Worse, I'm a 28 year old mother of three and I found it before church on Sunday morning! (If you think teenagers and parents are cruel, try sneaking past the women's Sunday school with a big 'ol hickey!) In the hot summer weather, no one would buy it if I wore a turtleneck or scarf.

I read all the eraser, and the ice and stuff. I tried the comb, using first a little lotion and then some Vaseline to lube the area a bit before all the friction. I could not believe how well it worked! It was amazing- even my in-the-doghouse-husband was impressed (and relieved!)
My teen years would have been so much less stressful had I known this trick back then! Use a comb, rub up and down and cross ways for about 20 minutes. It really works!

on 8/8/2006 I got one on my neck and i had to go away really fast. So I got a spoon and put it in the freeze for a while. I then put toothpaste on my hickey and let it dry. After it dried I scrubbed it off with my toothbrush and then I took the spoon out of the freezer and rubbed the bottom of the spoon on my neck until it was warm. I just kept repeating those steps until it was a little red mark that you could hardly see.

on 8/8/2006 I've heard that if you rub a battery over your hickey in a circular motion it will soon go away.

on 6/30/2006 I have very light skin, and the mark was dark! Worse, I'm a 28 year old mother of three and I found it before church on Sunday morning! (If you think teenagers and parents are cruel, try sneaking past the women's Sunday school with a big hickey) In the hot summer weather, no one would buy it if I wore a turtleneck or scarf.

I read all the eraser, and the ice and stuff. I tried the comb, using first a little lotion and then some Vaseline to lube the area a bit before all the friction. I could not believe how well it worked! It was amazing- even my in-the-doghouse husband was impressed (and relieved!)

My teen years would have been so much less stressful had I known this trick back then! Use a comb, rub up and down and crossway for about 20 minutes. It really works!

on 6/30/2006 Take some ice, put it in a paper towel (so it's not too cold) and put it on the hickey. Use a rubbing or twisting motion, and do this for a couple of minutes. Now, do either the toothpaste or the Chapstick method (put the medium on the hickey and on the cap of lipstick, and use it to rub), this is just so that it doesn't irritate the skin, so they both do the same thing (I alternated just in case). Do this for a while, then put a towel under some water, and then heat it in the microwave for around a minute, and put it on the hickey. You can also put the towel on the area, and use a tube of Chapstick to rub through the towel on the mark. Use a round brush and twist it on the mark for a couple of minutes. All you're doing is trying to get the busted capillary blood away from the skin surface, which is what a bruise (hickey) is.

on 6/30/2006 First, you apply an ice cube. Hold it on the hickey for 60 seconds, then apply a wet cloth and repeat the process until the hickey is less noticeable.

on 6/30/2006 Take a pencil and using the eraser side, press the eraser against your hickey and twist the pencil clockwise and counter clockwise, over and over again. I came home with a hickey and stayed up late and tried everything on this site, and after I tried the cold spoon and hot cloth tricks I then continued with the pencil trick, it was completely gone! I was so surprised because I had read that there is no easy way to get rid of a hickey, and it was impossible to get rid of it in a day. But I proved that wrong. After about 2 hours of panicking, now I can sleep and know the next morning is safe for me.

on 6/30/2006 The natural enzymes in tuna are great for the capillaries which carry the blood. Make sure you use the tuna in oil so it will stick to your skin nice and well. Apply a thick coat of tuna to your bruise (hickey) and let it sit for about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, take a hot blow dryer to it for about 5 minutes. The heat will activate enzymes and almost instantly you will notice the hickey disappearing! Good luck!