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When you are getting a hickey, you're all like "Ooh-La-La." The next day when you have to go to work and you look at your neck, you are all like, "Ugh. Oh Noes!" You're an adult, a professional, you probably have clients or dependents. You can't walk around with a big goofy stain on your neck like a junior high student. You may reach for the foundation in order to hide the hickey, but the environmentally conscious side of your brain goes, "Hey. No way!" Here is a way to hide that hickey without harming the environment.

A hickey is much like a bruise. Some lover of yours has used their mouth to break open all the little capillaries beneath the skin, creating a red, Gorbachevian splotch. You can employ the same tactics that you use to prevent and heal bruises to deal with hickeys, but this method will work too.

Grab yourself a washcloth. You're going to want some hot water, as hot as you can stand. Massage the hickey with the super-heated cloth for twenty to thirty minutes, reheating the cloth as necessary. After a half hour stop. The hickey should be reduced. If not, rest a bit and give it another go.