Quick hickey cures/fixes?

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What, a guy is supposed to learn how to use "base" effectively in one day? Won't it end up looking amateurish and slapdash and really obvious?

I still say decapitation is the best way out. But make sure to cut low to include the neck.

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am v. curious about the frozen spoon technique Erin suggested.

Do you think it is legitimate to ask someone if they will give you a hickey in order to try out this frozen spoon method? Or will it seem like a lame come-on? (which it is not, I assure you)

f (felicity), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, technology today has made base very easy to use and effective. I don't personally use much of it myself, just to cover the odd pimple but it's very simple. You can even buy the stuff in the cream format, that's even easier because it comes with a sponge and it's in a little tin, so you just press the sponge into it and then dab on the cream and blend it. Very easy, I volunteer to give lessons to every man in the NYC crew, I briefly did makeup for theatre!

Of course there's the question of how to explain it when the hickey-making girl comes over.

felicity, I'd offer to do it as a test but I think we'd have to sell tickets. You could try it out on your arm. I don't think it'll work though, how will you explain that at work?

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scarves

And yes, let's sell tickets.

felicity (felicity), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...
A friend got a hickey while her husband was on a business trip. She took her curling iron and purposely burned herself right on top of the hickey....her husband still doesn't know what I did to her......I mean, what happened to her.

Robin-David Buckhouse, Saturday, 6 August 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

When my son was a baby he had a bathtub toy that stuck to the edge of the tub with a suction cup. I was fooling around with it—sticking it to my forehead—and gave myself a perfect round hickey caste-mark. So you could superimpose a geometric suction-cup hickey over the organically-shaped one and tell people that you got it playing in the bath.

Beth Parker, Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

REVIVE! Hickeys rule.

moley, Monday, 28 May 2007 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link

What, a guy is supposed to learn how to use "base" effectively in one day?

Dude, how hard do you think it is? You put some of that shit on and rub it in. I mean, shit man, you don't have to be a master painter to know how to do it.

I hope that hickey is gone by now.

nathalie, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

When my son was a baby he had a bathtub toy that stuck to the edge of the tub with a suction cup. I was fooling around with it—sticking it to my forehead—and gave myself a perfect round hickey caste-mark. So you could superimpose a geometric suction-cup hickey over the organically-shaped one and tell people that you got it playing in the bath.

i totally did something like this. i was 17, and working at a branch of WH Smiths, and supposedly meeting my girlfriend who was university in oxford later that night, and kind of excited about it and talking about it with friends at work. only we broke up that nigh5t before i even left for oxford. anyways, a couple of nights later i was watching tv in the kitchen feeling miserable, and i started goofing around with one of those pneumatic wine fresheners that suck all the air out of an open bottle of wine, so it wouldn't spoil. i was attatching it to my arms, my hand... i even attatched it to my neck. and it wouldn't come off. and when it finally did, it left a massive hickey on my neck. so when i went into work next, with the hickey still angry on my neck, all my workmates congratulated me on what had obviously been a weekend of passion. and i had to inform them that we'd split up, and i'd administered said hickey to myself with a wine freshener.

stevie, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

ya but toothpaste works anyways

darraghmac, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

i love that story stevie, even if it was kinda sad.

the next grozart, Monday, 28 May 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link

there are so many such moments in my life where i'm not sure my life hasn't been scripted by some lame sitcom hack.

stevie, Monday, 28 May 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link

The forehead plunger hickey might be kind of inconspicuous on Ash Wednesday.

Abbott, Monday, 28 May 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link


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