Mom: What's wrong with your face?Man, hickies are hella embarrassing, yo. I mean, they are a nice reminder of the events of the night before, but if you have parents to face in the morning, or a job to go to, or other "friends" to see that week (I know how some of y'all get down!) a hickey can really eff up your situation. They were cool in high school, though. I remember this one girl coming into school one day, it looked like she had been strangled. But she had the widest grin on her face. She was showing her cheetah neck off to the entire class like show-and-tell! She wore those hickies PROUD.
Me (still half asleep): What? That's rude.
Mom: Is that... is that a hickey?!
Me: ::quickly and silently backs out of the room::
But I'm not in high school anymore. Even though I'm still young, I feel like I'm a little too old to be brandishing bright red/purple marks all on my cheek, chin, and neck like a vampire victim. Even though in this instance the hickeys were unintentionally given ("Damn girl, I didn't know your skin was THAT sensitive!"), there have been at least a couple guys I've met who leave those joints intentionally, like they're "marking their territory". Well if you're gonna be like that you might as well just pee on me like a dog (**NOT AN INVITE, PERVS!**).
To make myself more presentable and fend off questions of "WTF happened to your neck?!" I got creative and covered that ish up with some concealer and face powder. Worked wonders! The color of the hickey was pretty deep but with the makeup *blended to perfection*, I could barely tell it was there:
I left one uncovered to show the difference. Good, right?!What do you, my lovely readers, think of hickeys? What's your experience with them? Some people find them trashy (unless they are hidden of course), while others find them "really fun," like this dude interviewed by NPR in a little article aptly titled "An Ode to Hickies."
Do share!
