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RisiaSkye

RisiaSkye

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Alright, so here's the situation:

MasterMe and I engaged in some rather...um...heated struggle last night, and today I've got rather extensive bruising on my forearms and neck/bustline from wrestling around with a great big boy. (Incidentally, it ended in a draw; pretty much, anyway. I am *tough* :D) Typically, I don't engage in play that will leave marks which might show in public, so I've never really had this problem before.

I am a teacher, and a grad student, and I've got to deal with some *very* nosy people who are fairly attuned (via liberal guilt) to hints of what they suspect is abuse. So, figuring out how to disguise this is pretty important. I don't own turtlenecks or anything, so there's no immediate fix in that direction. Also, I'm incredibly fair skinned, so any overt make-up attempts are difficult to blend in a natural-looking way.

Hopefully, this will be useful information for someone besides me, as in the heat of the moment, such things can and do happen.

Ideas, anyone?

RS
 
You're screwed, my friend.

As one very light skinned, easily-bruised, blue-eyed blonde to another, you're screwed.

If you can't/won't cover the bruises with clothing then you have to cover them with makeup or you have to stay away from people until they go away.

There aren't any other choices, honey bunny.

I say, give MasterMe a big fucking high school hickey on his neck (payback), and both y'all just go off to work like that. Keep your head up. Don't let 'em think it's abuse but you also don't have to answer questions with anything besides a big smile and the words, "Rough sex, baby. Try it. It's fun." just before you stroll into the bathroom to bathe your flaming face in cool water.


No, no, no... i'm not laughing at you R... really...
 
Re: You're screwed, my friend.

cymbidia said:


I say, give MasterMe a big fucking high school hickey on his neck (payback), and both y'all just go off to work like that. Keep your head up. Don't let 'em think it's abuse but you also don't have to answer questions with anything besides a big smile and the words, "Rough sex, baby. Try it. It's fun." just before you stroll into the bathroom to bathe your flaming face in cool water.
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Be careful, love, with those assumptions.

MasterMe's got *plenty* of marks of his own to deal with today. Heh. He just has the advantage of a nice high-collared suit-and-tie gig to hide under. ;)
 
Mmmm maybe you should follow his example... try wearing one of his dress shirts and ties. You may get some questions on the change in dress style... but I would think those would be easier to answer than answering questions about the marks...

The other idea I had was to wear a windbreaker or some kind of jacket with a high collar. Say your chilly or something. :)

Just some thoughts... hopefully they help.

There isn't a way to make bruises disappear or go away faster. The healing has to run it's course, unfortunately. Covering them up is the only way to go...

- PBW
 
P. B. Walker said:
The other idea I had was to wear a windbreaker or some kind of jacket with a high collar. Say your chilly or something. :)

Just some thoughts... hopefully they help.
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~still giggling~
She's in San Diego.
So's my mom.
My mom told me it's been, like, in the 90's there.

Wear that windbreaker, girl!
And zip it up, too.
:D
 
RisiaSkye said:
Alright, so here's the situation:

MasterMe and I engaged in some rather...um...heated struggle last night, and today I've got rather extensive bruising on my forearms and neck/bustline from wrestling around with a great big boy. (Incidentally, it ended in a draw; pretty much, anyway. I am *tough* :D) Typically, I don't engage in play that will leave marks which might show in public, so I've never really had this problem before.

I am a teacher, and a grad student, and I've got to deal with some *very* nosy people who are fairly attuned (via liberal guilt) to hints of what they suspect is abuse. So, figuring out how to disguise this is pretty important. I don't own turtlenecks or anything, so there's no immediate fix in that direction. Also, I'm incredibly fair skinned, so any overt make-up attempts are difficult to blend in a natural-looking way.

Hopefully, this will be useful information for someone besides me, as in the heat of the moment, such things can and do happen.

Ideas, anyone?

RS
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Ah marks... they can suck for sure, if they are uh... a bit too well placed.
I'd say this calls for a blouse/shirt with long arms and a scarf, after all with this weather... you've got a baaaaad cold and you're soooo brave for showing up at work/school aren't you. And tomorrow you can buy some turtle necks, take MasterMe with you and let him pay, since it's his "fault". :D

Those nosey guys at work... I like Cyms appraoch <g> but with shirt and turtleneck that won't be necessary, I'd say.

Monika
 
I'm not sure how bad the bruises are but you can place a heating pad on them to increase the blood flow.It makes the healing time faster and will make the bruises smaller and not as dark.
I hope this helps ya out a little.
:cool:
 
I used to work in a health clinic where the folks there were very intuned to marks and signs of abuse. I had a Dr. come up to me and place her fingers on my forearm, matching the marks on my arms, and asked me point blank if my partner abused me. I blushed like hell because I had "those" kind of marks but well hidden from view. Funny thing was the marks she was refering to were caused by rough play with my puppy.

Do you wear scarves?

Can you play it off as getting into a game of touch football or WWW?

Ya know, marks happen in everyday life too. My Sweetie is a walking testiment to that at this very moment. In three days she has fallen twice, hit her hand on a brick wall coming out of a door, smacked the crap out of herself with a door knob and had a bottle of shampoo fall on her. She looks really really rough. She has briuses on her head, hands, arms, legs and feet. You may just play it off to premenstrual clumsiness if the marks would fit such a senario.

How you present yourself will also tell a story so try not to draw attention to them and if asked maybe laugh it off.

Good luck. I wish I could wipe this grin off of my face. I know this isn't really all that funny but it is just another one of those unusual circumstances we find ourselves in as we go about being who we are.

EvilBrat74, thanks for sharing about the heat. Massage would also increase the circulation.
 
I like the idea of wearing one of his shirts and ties. Women look sexy in that sort of stuff anyhow. And if anyone can still see marks...tell em someone cut you off and took your parking space at the store and you had to have it out with em ;)


Good luck on covering up :)


Brat
 
RS...

I'm sorry but I'm no help here... and I have the same problem...

I still had faint bruising when I went to see the doctor this week and they were a week old... thanks goodness she didn't ask about them and I decided not to volunteer any information at this time...

I do wear long sleeves, but then I am in air conditioning most of the time, so I can get by with it... otherwise there is no way to cover them that I know of... short of leeches (LOL)... so you might check with the science department and see if they have spare ones you can use...
 
Risia, there is a liquid herbal medicine called Arnica that will aid in healing bruises quickly. Call your local health food store and see if they have it in stock. If they do, then soak a pad in it and apply to the bruised area. I've seen this stuff work small miracles!

In any event, I am not giggling along with cym...really.
 
I've heard that if you massage bruises deeply to get the blood flowing (along the same lines as the heating pad), it'll clean out the damaged cells faster and the bruise will go away sooner.

The caveat is that you have to massage it pretty hard, which will hurt.

Lain
 
Update: Thanks, everybody, for the good advice.

Luckily for me, it was overcast and icky today, so I got away with wearing a long sleeved blouse and using a little makeup...in the lousy lighting of a cloudy day, it worked out fine.

Also, it seems to be pretty deep bruising, so it's surfacing slowly. That's actually kind of nice, as it's surfacing in a brownish, already-fading kind of way, which is much easier to get away with I think. At this point, there's only one substantial, vividly blue bruise. And that one's pretty easily hidden. Only a few comments on my style shift, and all from people who knew, and were just giving me grief about it.

Those perverts. :D
 
as a fair skinned girl who works in education, i am filing away this information for later
 
Arnica supposedly helps bruises heal rather quickly. I haven't tried this, yet, so I have no first-hand knowledge (just read about it, recently and sounds like something worth trying). It's available in creams or ointments.

"Homeopathic preparations are also used to treat sore muscles, bruises, and other conditions caused by overexertion or trauma."

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/arnica-000222.htm
 
"w" is constantly bruised, and rarely from me. She just bruises easily. She's bruised herself so often at work that they don't ask questions any more. They've seen what happens when she whacks her arm into a doorway or something.
 
I am currently having an issue with a low blood platelet problem and do bruise very easily right now. I also have nosebleeds and some other stuff but just last week I had blood drawn and the place the lab tech knotted the elastic tie left a bruise on my arm that still hasn't quite faded.

Just tell anyone that asks that you are anemic and have an iron deficiency and that you bruise pretty much spontaneously. Tell them your doc is working on it and that it's a personal matter.

They should leave you alone after that. :)
 
Arnica does help with aoreness, bruising and speeds up tissue healing; midwives recommend it for recovery after particularly difficult labors. It can be taken orally (tablets) or topically (usually a lotion or gel). Avoiding aspirin/blood thinners prior to play, and maintaining healthy iron levels will also minimize bruising.

I don't bruise easily, which surprised me given that I'm so freaking pale...
 
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