Because a hickey is a type of bruise, some basic first aid principles can help reduce the appearance of a hickey if a person acts quickly. Applying a cold compress or ice pack to the affected area for 15–20 minutes can stop any bleeding, reduce swelling, and help the healing process.
It is vital that you start with a cold compress immediately after receiving a hickey (within the first twelve hours), heat should only be applied to the area 48 hours after as heat increases blood flow and a cold compress restricts it.
To be on the safe side, try not to give or receive a hickey close to the carotid artery. That's the area at the top of your neck, just to the side of your chin.
To give your partner a hickey, make an O with your lips and press them firmly on your partner's skin. Seal your love with your lips and leave no room for air. Freely express your wild side by sucking hard enough to break capillaries.
Makeup tools: The most effective tool to hide the hickey is by using smart make-up tricks. The green-tinted concealer is the best as it negates the red tones of the skin. Apply a foundation that's a little lighter than your skin tone, directly on the hickey (love bite) and all around it.
There's never any reason to shame someone for having a hickey mark — like all forms of consensual sexual behavior, you don't have to justify someone making out with your neck — but the paradox of the hickey is that it takes something private and creates a public, lingering effect.
"It's not the hickey itself that's making you aroused, it's the act of kissing that's causing the arousal," Dr. Jaber says. For some people, it can feel good to get kissed on the neck. The neck is full of nerve-endings, which can make a kiss there a lot more pleasurable.
The neck may be the most popular spot, but you can technically give a hickey to any area of sensitive skin. For a less visible and more intimate mark, try giving her a hickey on the top of her breast or the inside of her upper thigh.
Using A Moisturizing Cream:
Any good textured moisturizer can help to reduce the hickey over the skin. The perk of this speaks that a gentle massage for 15 to 20 minutes can help to minimize the blood flow into the hickey, which eventually results in fading them.
Use a Cold Compress
"And the sooner you can do it, the better. It's analogous to trying to minimize swelling after an acute injury." Use a cloth soaked in cold water, an ice pack, or even a cold spoon on the hickey for 10 minutes a few times a day for the first day.
How it works: This hack falls in the same vein as the peppermint oil one. The idea is: Apply minty toothpaste to your hickey to stimulate circulation and speed up the healing process. But limit your use of this hack to once per day—too much toothpaste can irritate your skin.
Generally, hickeys are located on the neck and form a harmless dark bruise when the blood vessels break after your partner applies suction. However, if your partner gives you a love bite too hard over a vein or artery, it could lead to a blood clot that could cause significant problems.
Alternatively, possessive types may use love bites as a mark of possession to show everyone else you are taken. In which case you should take that as a red flag. For others it's a show of affection. Simply a regular part of a passionate kissing session.
Do hickeys hurt? If your partner gives you a hickey, the area might be a little sore for the first day or two afterward. You might also experience a tiny bit of swelling. You shouldn't have any serious pain or swelling, though.
Disrespectful, no. It's not our business what you do with your body. Prepare for people looking and whispering, some might snarl.
The toothpaste method to treat a hickey
Mint toothpaste or peppermint oil aid in increasing blood circulation.
Does toothpaste get rid of hickeys? No, toothpaste is not an effective way to get rid of hickeys. It can even cause irritation and make the hickeys worse because of its ingredients. So, do not use it on your skin.
Toothpaste to the rescue
Apply a mint-based toothpaste to the hickey. The tingling sensation that it produces will increase blood flow to the area and allow reabsorbtion of the clot.