Hickey Information - Symptoms And Herbal Home Treatment

Ok, so we all know that hickeys are the result of an overzealous set of lips suction-cupping themselves to an area of skin and sucking until surface blood vessels break, right? Right, so I won't elaborate on the subject any more here.

How to Get Rid of a Hickey

Tips for Hiding and Removing Hickeys

• If you catch the hickey soon enough, your can minimize the mark by immediately applying ice.
• Surface stimulation will help disperse the blood. Gently rub and massage the area.
• Using a comb or a hairbrush to massage the area works better than fingers and hands.
• Apply a warm, moist, used tea-bag as a hot compress. Repeatedly re-wet and re-warm it as needed until the hickey disappears.

Herbal home remedy for the treatment and cure of Hickey

• Simple home remedy for hickey - Using any tubular object with a domed end, apply steady pressure over the hickey and twist. It will hurt, but it will help. Lipstick caps, pen caps, and blistex caps work. The goal is to work the blood deeper into the skin.
• Good home remedy for hickey - Make the hickey worse - if you use a curling iron, have your 'friend' reshape the hickey to match the pattern that it would make if you had burned yourself accidentally. This can work with any likely burn or bruise scenario.
• Effective home remedy for hickey - Coat area liberally with lotion. Rub with the back of a cold spoon vigorously for as long as you can stand to, changing out spoon for new cold one every 10 minutes. Recommended time for this treatment is 45-60 minutes. Why it works: a hickey is a bruise; the discoloration of a bruise is caused by blood accumulating under the skin from broken capillaries; this remedy breaks up the old blood so it can be reabsorbed by the body more quickly, therefore diminished the discoloration.
• Natural home remedy for hickey - Take a toothbrush and lightly brush it in one direction for about 10-15 minutes. This will help the blood to circulate there again and absorb the redness. Then apply a cold press with ice packs. It helps a lot in reducing a big hickey to a tiny spot.
• Herbal home remedy for hickey - Apply a cold metal spoon to the hickey and hold in place for 5 minutes. You can also use a piece of ice, applied to the hickey for 5 minutes.
• Simple home remedy for hickey - To make it more effective add some eucalyptus oil, drape a towel over the water and yourself so that you can prevent any steam from escaping, and then breathe in the steam. This should help you get your sinuses cleared.
  
• Utilize turtleneck sweaters, scarves, or makeup to cover it up.
• Rub vitamin K into the area.

Natural home remedy for hickey using coin

Traditional natural home remedy for hickey Use a coin. This method is probably the most painful, but has proven VERY effective. First, stretch the skin flat (pulling away from the hickey on two opposite sides). Then, use the edge of a large coin to scrape the skin. Use the coin like the hickey was butter on toast, and spread outward. The only difference is that you must press quite HARD (as hard as you can, but not so that you break the skin, bleed or hurt). What 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. Anyhow, a scrape is much less conspicuous than a hickey.