everything (well, almost) you ever wanted to know about hickeys

Have you ever come home after a hot date, only to discover a giant hickey on your neck? It happens to the best of us. Fortunately, there are ways to make hickeys less obvious:

"To get rid of a hickey, some people rub combs or other objects over them. There is some truth to this, as rubbing the skin can help increase blood circulation and decrease clotting. If you apply ice and pressure immediately after you receive a hickey, you can sometimes minimize the swelling and redness. "

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Comments

[hfnm]

LUV HICJEYS!

[jordannn]

LOL ur stories r great!...so i like this guy but we havnt hooked up or anything :( he said hes 2 buisy. i honestly hav never even kissed a guy..kinda embarresing. anywho... how do i gt him 2 make out w me and hopefuly gt a hicky ..u guys make them sound so AMAzING!

[dicy rule]

I love hickeys...actually I never really had them. I had them when I was an innocent kid,,,when I didnt even know what it was.
recently i am like talking to this guy and he was like Giving a hickey is so awesome...from then on hickeys just excite me a lot. i would love to have em...sounds good ^^

[dicy rule]

I love hickeys...actually I never really had them. I had them when I was an innocent kid,,,when I didnt even know what it was.
recently i am like talking to this guy and he was like Giving a hickey is so awesome...from then on hickeys just excite me a lot. i would live to have em...sounds good ^^

[Laurenn]

Honestly, i love gettin em. & let me jus say i know how ta give em aha i thynk the shortest tyme was 10 - 15 seconds andd kid had it on hlaf his neck aha paybacks not fun =D. but i hate when people gotta talk about it like they know anything about what yur doin with yur life. they see one & automaticly call me a smut or a whore cus they think if you get one you obv. did more then just hook up. there such dummys.

[hannah]

okay i love hickeys. just the feeling of getting one is so like amazing haha. and giving them isn't that bad either. and then having it just reminds you of how amazing that time was.

[Tatyana]

I LOVE HICKEYS HONESTLY ! except the fact that if i walk around school with my hickey i known as a "Slut" how am i a slut if i just would like to show that my boyfriend likes to suck on my neck. i mean its not like im getting random hickeys from random dudes no they are from my boyfriend. i have a really long hickey on my neck and i cant hide it . Haha the only thing is i suck at giving hickeys D:

[irish_baby!]

I've had hickeys b4 bu i spose dey arnt dat bad... i jst put foundation over dem nd my parents didn even notice, tank god my last hickey was only a small 1 u cud jst c d outline of his teeth and it was nly a litlle bit red!!! bu nobody shud stress abou gettin 1 deres nuffin rong wid dem and a million nd 1 ways 2 cover dem up and get rid o dem... i use toothpaste 2 jst put some on before i go to bed and it dries dem up! i washed it off in the morning before my parents saw me and put foundation on it!

[Samantha]

god, i've had 2 hickeys but i gave alot!!! i love givin them. alot of guys come to me and get wit me at my school just for a hickey, cause i'm apparently great at givin them. it's sad!! But i gotta admit one i gave lasted a couple of weeks on my ex, n his brother was all happy for him. idk, i guess i'm gifted.

[raven]

i think hickeys feel so fuckin good! lol it just really turns me on. it wasunny my grandma saw it on my neck i just told her it was a rash and she fell for it...so yea u can just say dat, it helps. cuz why the heck wud u wear a scarf, and wat if its not even cold, u can make ur parents very suspicious....

[misshellee]

Well, my first boyfriend just used to give me hickeys to mark me, and I never really cared for them. My current boyfriend, the first hickey I ever gave, and i didn't even realize i was doing it. Lovemaking was just soo sweet and passionate and i was kissing on his neck, and then he stopped all of a sudden and was like "WTF - why did you do that?" and then i realized what i did... my bad! But he used a toothbrush and toothpaste to rub it out....

[Marley]

I have always seen hickey's as a gross bruise on the side of some ones neck. I would think tramp or slut any time i saw one. But now that I am older i love getting them and i see them as a sign of love or a sign that the guy wants to move forward. And plus... my boyfriend loves when I give them to him. he tells me, "Its a sign for other girls to stay away from me...I am taken by you." I cant argue with that =)

[Martha]

HAH DANG, HiCkEyS ARE HRRiBLE TO HAVE BUT i LOVE RECiEViNG THEM;) BUT MOST DEFiANTLy GiViNG THEM..AHH I REMEMBER My FiRST HiCky..iT WAS THE BiGGEST HiCkEy ON THiS PLANET..G00D THiNG i HAVE LONG HAiR ESPECiALLy SiNCE My MOM PiCkkED ME UP FROM SkOOL ThAT DAy!!=]] ANd EXCUSE yA'LL i LOVE iT WHEN A GUy BiTES yOUR EAR iTS FEELS SOO G00D;]] ANd yEAA yOU dONT HAVE TO GET HiCkEYS ON yOUR NECk..wtf PE0PLE THiS iS THE 20 CENTURy ANd iT FEELS BETTER WHEN yOU dONT RECiEVE THEM ON yOUR NECk!!;]]] haha

[Rachael]

oh yeah i found out twisting a battery around on your hickey for a while will eventually make it go away. i think that would hurt so i'll just suck it up and keep them there.

[Rachael]

my boyfriend gives me hickeys all the time and i give him some once in a while. i can't stand them but at times i kinda like it. i hate them because my mom gets annoyed by them, i get yelled at at work, they hurt, and tons of people make comments about them. the only reason i like them is because i like knowing i actually have someone to give them to me. idk if that made any since at all. i can't really explain it. i now call them my "russian love stamps" hehe. because my boyfriend is russian. lol.

[cassidy]

OMG once me and my bf had sex and he gave me four hickeys and lol it was amazing but i got grounded when my mom walked in my room and found me covering them up! Dang!

[Elinor]

allie - You suck really hard on a part of someone's skin, often the neck till you leave a red mark there. You could probably practice on your arm to get the idea.

[allie]

i dont understand how to give a hickey

[allie]

i dont understand how to give a hickey

[Chelsi]

Omg. I'm dating a guy now that I'm not supposed to be with...But we really like each other! I've never had a hickey before, but I have made out. Well I was reaching behind my seat to get something and he just hit me with it. It felt soo good though, I didn't want him to stop! But.. He didn't suck on it for long..That's the weird thing. I guess i'm "easy". Lol.Anyways. For like 3-5 days I had to try to hide them from my mother! My dad wouldn't care, because I could always lie to him, but my mom would find them in a heart beat! And the worst part is, is he gave me TWO! It was really hard! My friend told me to try some of the stuff on here, but she said that some people had said that they don't really work. ((But of course she really wouldn't know))..but yeah. What's the toothpaste thing?

[katie]

I had one on my lip one time. Right down the center of my bottom lip. Who knew right?

[tyanne]

p.s. pain= pleasure.. it sends tiny things to your brain as long as its quite minor.. well for me .. my friend goes all out extream s&m kinda deal shes always healing from her weekends with her boyfriend.. healing including fang marks on her wrists.. yikes.. and if you're turned on you don't feel pain.. its the healing that sucks. and in responce to the written novel.. i've been on my way to CHURCH with my mom and SHE had a hickey... i just laughed my ass off and told her that her having that gives me a get outta jail free card

[tyanne]

i used to be obsessed with hickies.. back in highschool i went to a private school and it was a way to rebel. so when i did them i went all out ... massive giant black and blue bruises that covered necks and stomachs and chests.. i even once did it on one boys nose.. however now that i've been out of highschool for a while now my boyfriend and i are working before college.. so no hickies cause they will now get you fired:(

[Danielle]

never had one hahaha good 4 me i don't have to worry about anything

[JennyPie]

P.S. i give the best hickey lmao

[JennyPie]

FUNNY STORY!!!
I gave this boy a hickey who i didnt ge with and his girlfriend saw and well it was funny cause well i hate that girl lmao

[Micaela]

So, I read that and it didn't really tell me much that I didn't already know. But it did remind me of this one time...
I was at my boyfriends house and we were just watching a movie and all that jazz, and things picked up from there. So yeah, I ended up getting one, and it wasn't too bad. So when I woke up the next morning I didn't think it was a big deal and decided not to try and hide it from my mom. The whole day she didn't say anything to me. I thought maybe she had noticed and just not said anything. But that night, we were talking and she stops mid-sentence and goes "What is that!" I was like, "Uh, what is what?" And she proceeds to ask about the hickey saying, "Did you get that thing last night? If you did, maybe I just won't let you go over there anymore. Hmm, I think they look so trashy. If you get another one, just get it on your arm or the back of your neck. That way people can't see them. Would you like it if I came to your school with a big ole hickey on my neck. That's a good idea." I just got up and walked away. I thought it was pretty funny though.
Okay I'm done, now that I've written a freaking novel..
haha.

[Chelsea]

You don't have to just give hickeys on the neck..I give/get them on the stomach, so you don't have to hide them. DUH!! You can just cover them up with your shirts =)

[j-dub]

i totally disagree. i love it when a guy bites my ears. if he bites it like it's a steak, yeah, it hurts, but if it's a hard nibble or lighter it feels amazing.

[louise]

hmm suprised dat comb tng wrks...i had realli REALLI bad dark purple hickys lOl nd tried toothpaste bt it didnt wrk at all,conceler wrks pretty well bt u ave 2 put loads on

[victoria]

haha hickeyss umm... yea the comb thing does hurt really REALLY bad
oh
and NEVER let a boy bite on ur ear because its hurts REALLY BAD

to save you from too much pain prefer the toothpaste thing im happy my mom about my boyfriend though (she caught me with toothpaste on mi neck really funny story)LOL!!!!

[lemyo]

um toothpaste with baking soda its reduces them two day faster than just rubbing them with a comb email me if you want specific directions

[brittany]

Yeah, well I just now got with this guy, I went on a little date thingy with him Friday. It was excellent,So we get to the place, and we're making out and all then next thing we know were biting each other. Well after everything was finished I was like "Wow your frisky" Hes like " I can't help it" So I look in the mirror and theres hickies all around my neck, Thank god I brought makeup with me, Or else my butt would gotton yelled at. My bestfriend was like "what the hell brittany" I stated, I couldn't help it... lol.

[pookie]

really does work to comb them.... burns like hell thou...

[Teresa]

Oh my. I always thought that hickeys were pretty weird and gross. Then when I heard the term "love bite" I though they were even nastier. Now after reading that they break apart blood vessels, although that's not an unsafe thing I still think that's weird and nasty. =/

[Stacie]

I heard of applying a cold spoon on a hickey will make it go away so I tried it when I got my first hickey(well more like 4). I kept putting a spoon in the freezer everyday while I was at school and applying it secretely in my bathroom(my parents would murder me if they saw em!). Thing is my mom kept finding them and taking them out! So I had to put one in the freezer downstairs because I couldnt let her know that it was me putting random spoons in the freezer! Its funny now that I remember it but at the time not sooo much hehe.

[Hope]

Okay come to school with an hickey that when the rumor start seriously!!
I don't start they get around pretty fast. "did she so-so had a hickey!!!'
"is she cheating???"
Basicully if get a hickey get it over the summer!!!

[hi]

.....That was weird i must say..... :S

[Vanessa]

LOL! Reading that i remembered a funny time of mine. I gave MYSELF a hickey! It was an accident. I was bored and I was pinching my shoulder. I pinched it too hard nd so i kissed it cause a kiss always makes a boo-boo feel better. I was still bored so i left my mouth on mi shoulder. Later that day i noticed a big red blotch on my shoulder. All my friends thought it was hickey and they treated me like i was older. It was SO funny when they found out that i gave myself the hickey.