Heres A Few Tips On How To Get Rid Of Hickeys Quicker Than Usual
- Apply an icepack or cold spoon on the hickey as soon as possible after receiving it. You can wrap some ice in a towel, use pre-frozen ice packs or put a spoon in the freezer for a few minutes. Gently hold the cold compress to the skin for several minutes (up to 20 minutes, if it doesn’t feel too uncomfortable), remove the compress for several minutes, and then apply it again.
- Try the toothbrush or comb method. Many people swear by it.
- Lightly brush the hickey and the area around it with a stiff-bristled toothbrush or a comb. Doing this stimulates circulation, but pressing too hard can make the hickey worse.
- Wait about 15 minutes. The redness and swelling will spread, but will be less obvious after about 15 minutes.
- Apply a cold compress, as above.
- Repeat if necessary. Depending on the magnitude of your hickey, this method may work or it may just spread the discoloration a bit.
- Use a coin. This method is probably the most painful.
- Stretch the skin flat (pulling away from the hickey on two opposite sides).
- Use the edge of a large coin to scrape the skin. Use the coin like the hickey was butter on toast, and spread outward. You must press quite HARD (as hard as you can, but not so that you break the skin, bleed or hurt). What some people believe this does is push the excess blood, which has escaped from the capillaries, out of the surface skin. There will be redness from the scraping, but that will go away much faster than a hickey. Even then, a scrape is much less conspicuous than a hickey.
- Apply a layer of toothpaste to the hickey, and when it stops tingling in a few minutes, remove the toothpaste with a warm washcloth. Wait 24 hours and repeat if necessary. You’ll see better results if you can do this ASAP.
- Apply Vitamin K cream. Vitamin K may help reabsorb the blood stuck near the surface of the skin that causes the appearance of a hickey (more specifically the redness or brownness).
