If you and your boyfriend get carried away, you'll need to know ways to cover up a love bite, otherwise known as a hickey. You might be proud of the mark because it shows that someone loves you, but your parents and professors don't want to see it. It's inappropriate to show at work and school, so make sure you know all the ways to cover up a love bite. Here are a few of the simplest ones: Show
Make-up does a great job of covering up your blemishes, so why not use it to cover up your latest hickey? Grab some concealer and foundation to apply to the area. Make sure that you blend it in, so that it doesn't look like you have a discolored patch of skin that will draw attention to the area. A little bit of make-up is one of the best ways to cover up a love bite, because you should already have the necessary products in your cabinet. If it's cold outside, no one will suspect a thing when they see you wearing a scarf. You don't have to lug around a heavy one that is meant to keep you warm from the outside air. You can don a fashion scarf that enhances your outfit. That way, you're killing two birds with one stone. Wearing your hair up will only draw attention to your neck. If you have locks that are long enough to cover the love bite, then keeping it down all day is all you need to do to cover it. Just make a mental note not to push your hair to the side, revealing the hickey. If it's cold out, throw on a turtleneck sweater. If it's only a bit chilly, you can wear a jacket or a shirt with a collar that will cover your neck. As long as you make the outfit appear like something you would normally wear, no one will suspect that you're trying to cover up anything. If you're already out of the house and have no other way of covering up your hickey, stick a bandage over it. You can tell everyone that you burned yourself with your straightener, that you got bit by a bug, or that you got scratched by your cat. You don't want to draw attention to your neck. If you feel the need to wear jewelry, put on some rings and bracelets. Avoid necklaces, because it'll draw the eye to the exact area you don't want anyone looking at. If you want to get rid of the hickey for good, grab a washcloth and some ice. Wrap the ice up and place it directly over the hickey. It should get the swelling to go down, and if you leave it on for long enough, it should almost disappear. There's nothing wrong with getting a hickey from your boyfriend, but there are places where it's not appropriate to have one. You wouldn't want to see one on your mother's neck, so your mother probably doesn't want to see it on you. Have you ever gotten a love bite before? Did you cover it up, or were you fine with everyone seeing it? More Popular now {{category}} Recent {{category}} Spotting a hickey can attract giggles and stares that may result in you facing some embarrassment. Here are 12 ways you can hide your badge of honour from others to see! These hacks will come in handy the next time you have a 'vampire bite'!
Courtesy of Retailer Let’s get real—who doesn’t like a long, steamy makeout session? Extended kissing is hot—especially when it’s taken down to the neck. Neck kissing is just as hot as many other sexual activities, it’s stimulating to an erogenous zone, and, I mean, it just feels damn good. It’s easy to get carried away, though, and then you might be stuck with an unsightly hickey the next morning which is annoying at best, but downright embarrassing at worst—like if you happen to have a big presentation or a meeting with your boss. No one wants to walk into work with a telltale splotch on their neck and have to field comments and glances all day. We’re not saying you have to forgo a pleasurable activity for the sake of your job—no one wants to live in a world like that. But when you do find yourself faced with a hickey situation, the best thing you can do is learn to cover it up. That’s why we turned to award-winning celebrity groomer Melissa De Zarate for advice. Has she had to cover up hickeys on the necks of her famous clients before they go on camera? “Not very often, but it has happened,” she says. Follow her foolproof four-step plan to have your makeout moment without the post-hickey embarrassment.
Grab a tool and pop it into the freezer until it’s ice cold. It could be a spoon, a jade roller, a gua sha stone or anything else that gets cold fast. After about ten minutes, take it out and press it to the hickey. “You want to break up the bruise so it heals faster but also make the skin lay smoother,” says De Zarate. “The cold element depuffs and restricts the blood vessels around the bruise.” Once you’ve cooled down the area, apply a bit of arnica gel, which “helps the bruise heal faster,” she says, just keep it away from your eyes or mouth if the bruise is nearby (hey, we don’t know your life). Then apply your usual moisturizer over the gel “to soothe the skin and prep it for the next steps.” Now time for the main event—covering that sucker up. What you’ll need is concealer. Two shades of concealer in fact: one that matches your skin tone and one that’s a shade lighter. “You need the lighter shade to knock out the deeper tones of the bruise like purple and blue,” says De Zarate, who says to first apply the lighter color to the hickey itself (don’t go beyond the edges) with your finger. Then go back over it all with the darker shade and use your finger to blend it out into the skin around the hickey. Use a tapping motion with your finger to blend, don’t rub it. Read more: Best Makeup for Men Once you’ve sufficiently covered the hickey with your concealer and it’s completely camouflaged, set it with a little bit of translucent powder to keep it from melting. The powder, she says, is “like a little invisible shield to keep everything in place.” And voila, it’s like the hickey was never there. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io
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