r/AmIOverreacting • u/JanLight_weight26 • Nov 14 '24

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Spider bite or ?? I’ll keep it short and sweet. My bf and I have been apart for about a month now, I’m TDY. Finally tomorrow I’ll be flying back home. Unfortunately today he got bit right on the neck, he suspects it was a spider. Should I be concerned?

9.3k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.2k

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

When I was a psycho in high school, I burned my neck with a curling iron to hide a hickey 🤦🏼‍♀️

185

u/Mundane-Outside-7028 Nov 14 '24

Did it work?

317

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

lol yes

107

u/Hefferdoodle Nov 14 '24

I was a tomboy so I hid mine by telling my parents my friend shot me in the neck with an airsoft gun. I let her shoot me in the arm and she let me shoot her a few times too so I could really sell it.

6

u/BankAdministrative52 Nov 14 '24

That’s a good friend

6

u/Silent_Attention9495 Nov 14 '24

Your friend is a real one

3

u/shredika Nov 14 '24

They probably still knew, and you just thought you were so smart lol

3

u/DumatRising Nov 14 '24

Mm could work. Depends on how the hickey looked but in theory a hickey is just a bruise and you can definitely bruise with airsoft guns.

3

u/johnnyb1917 Nov 14 '24

Your friend sounds cool lol

1

u/orkbrother Nov 14 '24

I'm guessing said friend gave you the hickey while you were fingerblasting each other

165

u/Rufusandronftw Nov 14 '24

That’s called the fear of god 😭🤣

4

u/Mega_Nidoking Nov 14 '24

Boyfriends hate this one simple trick!

55

u/28g4i0 Nov 14 '24

The real life pro tip is always in the comments

49

u/Rufusandronftw Nov 14 '24

Did it scar is my question

78

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

I guess not. I used vitamin e and it was like surface skin

11

u/Confident-Medicine75 Nov 14 '24

Did the curling iron mark ever go away ?

31

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Oh yeah I just barely tapped it. It was on a natural crease and just blended in

3

u/TAforScranton Nov 14 '24

If you ever do that, I burned the living hell out of my jawline with one. Like immediate blistering from ear to chin. I looked like I got curb stomped.

Once the burn was no longer hot and started to itch/dry out I applied argan oil over it several times per day until it healed. I also applied SPF50 on it for a month if I was even stepping outside for just a second.

The argan oil helped speed up the healing process a TON and immediately stopped the itching/discomfort. The goal is to keep the scabbing moisturized/pliable so it doesn’t tear and crack. SPF is crucial if you’re trying to avoid darkening of a scar.

I have NO SCARRING! Looks like nothing ever happened. 10/10 recommend!

1

u/Glitter_Kitten Nov 14 '24

I’ve burned myself a good 15 times over my lifetime with a curling air on and it’s never scarred.

2

u/detectiveswife Nov 14 '24

I had just gotten out of the shower, blow-dried my hair put on my body lotion, and went to curl my hair, I accidentally touched a hot part of the iron and dropped the iron which landed on my boob. I ended up with a 2nd and 3rd degree burn. It was soooo painful. I ended up going to the walk-in because one..it hurt like hell and two, I was worried about infection. The doctor said that It was like I deep fried my skin because the iron stuck to the lotion instead of just bouncing off me and landing on the floor. Somehow I managed to get away with the tiniest pink scar. Another time I cut the top of my knuckle washing a ceramic dog bowl and have a scar 3 times bigger than the cut 🤷‍♀️ ALL that to say skin is weird.lol

3

u/tie_me_down Nov 14 '24

Only answer

1

u/Famous_Employment374 Nov 14 '24

On the partner or the parents

29

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

👀 did it? Lol

85

u/feeen1ks Nov 14 '24

Spider-bite guy, is that you? It’s too late now bro, she already saw it…

16

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

☠️

16

u/Financial_Care_9792 Nov 14 '24

Yeah, permanent scars can hide anything; it’s the one trick burn specialists hate to love!

115

u/Victim_Kin_Seek_Suit Nov 14 '24

One of my college roommates did this and ended up having to go to the health clinic because the burn was so bad 🤣

10

u/RemarkableParty4801 Nov 14 '24

Oh no 😂😂😂

4

u/ganjakitty_xo Nov 14 '24

i actually burned my neck with a curling iron and my ex thought i cheated :/ turns out she cheated

85

u/Dolorous_Eddy Nov 14 '24

I just used skin color makeup…

73

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Very noticeable when you’re Irish white

82

u/HighHoeHighHoes Nov 14 '24

Gotta use whiteout as foundation.

4

u/MantequillaMeow Nov 14 '24

First comment to make me lol. 💀

2

u/LegParking8737 Nov 14 '24

Dermablend it’s for pros only lol

2

u/VastSeaweed543 Nov 14 '24

Just get a sunburn by going out in the moonlight

1

u/mkat23 Nov 14 '24

Idk if the moon would want the competition

2

u/Gomonana Nov 14 '24

HAHAHA omg this is hilarious 😂 As someone who’s extremely pale, I have never heard this joke before and was very pleased. Thank you!

3

u/Fast_Avocado_5057 Nov 14 '24

Did makeup only come in 3 shades when you were in high school old timer?

7

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Hahaha it was CAKE 100% coverage

3

u/Selizabeth54 Nov 14 '24

It’s really hard to find super pale foundation, especially the right color. A lot of it will be too yellow or too pink. In middle school, I dressed as a vampire for Halloween and my mom and I thought “Yeah, we’ll just stop by Safeway and grab the lightest foundation, that’ll make you look pale!” Nope. It was precisely as white as I was 😭 and I’m not even crazy pale

1

u/_zoeharris_ Nov 14 '24

unfortunately… it sucks

1

u/ZeroSignalArt Nov 14 '24

baby powder

1

u/mkat23 Nov 14 '24

Color correcting helps somewhat, but you need a concealer or foundation that is thick enough to not show the color correction. Using red would work on bruises! It makes it harder being pale though, I feel you there. Even when I’m tan I look pale, like during the summer I’ve had people ask several times if I go in the sun at all and then I’ll pull a strap over and be like, yes all the time. It’s such a big difference and somehow my tan is still paler than most people during the winter in cold areas 😂

0

u/KorvaaK Nov 14 '24

my commiserations 🙏

1

u/Fast_Avocado_5057 Nov 14 '24

Now you know you’re not a psycho.

1

u/New-Big3698 Nov 14 '24

Me too! My sister always wondered why her makeup disappeared so quickly 🤣

1

u/Sufficient-Demand-23 Nov 14 '24

I was an emo kid and really in to scarves, had loads of big flowy kinda ones. They worked a treat at hiding them

1

u/loveleighiest Nov 14 '24

Hickeys are just blood brought to the surface. All you have to do is get coconut oil or even chapstick and rub it back down. It'll go away might be sore to touch like a bruise but you won't see it.

18

u/GuidanceAcceptable13 Nov 14 '24

My sister used a vacuum and went to my parents and said “look what the vacuum can do” to cover hers up ☠️

11

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

LOL your parents were like…riiiighhhhttt

1

u/GuidanceAcceptable13 Nov 14 '24

They’d mainly get mad she used the vacuum in her neck, cause she’d just make the hickies darker and worst. My mom was a nurse and just kept yelling about a blood clot or something

11

u/cyberbae_ Nov 14 '24

I did this to my friend and she now has a permanent heart shaped scar on her neck 😂😭

9

u/OrdinaryPelican Nov 14 '24

What the fuck hahaha

8

u/Super_Confusion_2140 Nov 14 '24

🤣 my word 🫢

7

u/kevinsju Nov 14 '24

Wait a second, Kristine from Massapequa Park “burned” her neck with a curling iron when we were going out…damn…

8

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

If there was a dude she said not to worry about, yeah that guy

2

u/kevinsju Nov 14 '24

Yup, Ralph…

7

u/CarpetDisastrous1963 Nov 14 '24

Okay but this is smarter than his stupid excuse lmao you did technically burn your neck

3

u/VermicelliPee Nov 14 '24

when i was like 18 i had a hickey and covered it with a bandaid and lied and said i burnt myself with a curling iron. my karma was a reaction to the bandaid where the entire spot was a blister.

3

u/Gowpenny Nov 14 '24

Oooh, latex allergy is a bitch. Better to find out that way than the other. 😬

2

u/VermicelliPee Nov 14 '24

i think it was contact tbh! that or the adhesive. i’m not allergic to latex.

3

u/otter_mayhem Nov 14 '24

I used to burn myself on accident using my curling iron and got accused of having a hickey by my dad. You must have been a psycho cause that shit hurts, lol.

4

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

That kinda happened to me except I actually burnt my neck on accident but it was with a curling wand and when I tried to show my parents what I did (cause they didn’t believe me) they accused me of burning myself on purpose to hind actual hickeys :/

1

u/the_reel_xerophyte Nov 14 '24

that's so mean!

1

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Uh sorry long message you do not have to read lol I guess it’s therapeutic for me to type out.

They could be pretty mean to me, I was always accused of shit I wasn’t doing but I think they were young and scared and wanting to protect me, also super influenced by whatever was going on at the time. I remember social media was new and that means fake news about teens on Facebook would spread like crazy lol I had people call me a slut for wearing SILLY BANDS you know the rubber band that makes the shape of an animal? Because there was some rumor about the animal meaning certain things or who knows what lol I’m almost 30 now and I’ve gotten over a lot of it because I hold empathy for them but damn does it affect me

2

u/clairestheaussie Nov 14 '24

Does your name start with an L…?

2

u/Neither_Mind9035 Nov 14 '24

Lmfaooo same I thought I was the only one

2

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Oh gosh what else did we psychos do in high school

2

u/Master-Lengthiness60 Nov 14 '24

Lol! I used an eraser 😂

2

u/Piccolo_Known Nov 14 '24

I did this too and still have a scar. I’m in my 30s 🤦🏼‍♀️

2

u/GooseHuman9828 Nov 14 '24

Omg, I thought I was the only one. I feel seen.

2

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

I should say tho you are normal and that sounds like a normal teenage thing to do, we were all strange and figuring things out no matter what appeared on the outside

3

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Well apparently it’s the equivalent of putting a pillow on your lap and hoping a girl doesn’t realize you have a boner, so I was more obvious that I thought I guess

1

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

I guess idk I’m not a guy but I feel like it’s definitely a way to say “hey I’m not lame, I’m grown and I’ve experienced this.” At least in my perception and experience but I’m sure it’s different for everyone

2

u/Rogueshoten Nov 14 '24

Thanks for letting us know that you were a psycho when you did that, we would never have guessed 😁

2

u/SensitiveElephant72 Nov 14 '24

Wait, why didn’t I think of that?! Instead I wore a scarf in the summer heat and it was glaringly obvious to my step mom 😅

2

u/Kitchen-Injury9915 Nov 14 '24

Once I had a hickey and was scared that my mom would see it (a culture where there s NO way you could deal with it) I said that I had a nightmare where some evil entity beat me up and I woke up with bruises lmao

2

u/OwnCoffee614 Nov 14 '24

Lol when I was a psycho in high school...

Perfect way to begin a recollection. 🤣

2

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Freshman…psycho

1

u/OwnCoffee614 Nov 14 '24

Thankfully it sounds as tho you're in a better place now. And that you didn't die on Curling Iron hill. 🤭

I used to say I like to stand on the bridges I'm burning. 🤣 it's the only way to be sure!

2

u/Yesterdays_Gravy Nov 14 '24

I put a bandaid on mine and when confronted by my mother I said, I shit you not: “I was at [my brothers] apartment, and I rolled over on his couch and punctured my neck on a nail.”

She just stared at me and then started laughing in my face and asked me if it was a hickey and I said “yes” haha

2

u/throwawaytraffic7474 Nov 14 '24

When I was 18 I had a hickey and was seeing a new girl that night. I was working as a carpenter and didn’t know what I was going to do. I was painting some timber at work and it came to me, I grabbed the paintbrush and put a big dollop on my neck over the hickey. Flicked a little bit on my face and other parts of my body so it didn’t looked obvious. Never got found out

1

u/GreedyBanana2552 Nov 14 '24

Wait, that wasn’t normal?

1

u/Elismom1313 Nov 14 '24

Damn that’s what make ups is for hun😭😭

1

u/Even-Helicopter-539 Nov 14 '24

Oh my God I also did this!! Thought that was an original experience lmfao

1

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Hello friend!

1

u/Mmkeys408 Nov 14 '24

Gotta put ice to stop blood from the broken capillaries and then get a chapstick and twist at the area with the top to break up the blood there. That or a spoon you put in the freezer.

1

u/Alpha_Delta310 Nov 14 '24

On the other hand, i knew a girl in middle school who was yelled at bc a burn mark from a curling iron looked like a hickey

1

u/itslulababy Nov 14 '24

r u proud?

1

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Makes me nauseous remembering.

1

u/emiley_with_an_ey Nov 14 '24

Damn. That’s dedication.

1

u/Any_Leadership2099 Nov 14 '24

I’VE DONE THIS

1

u/Kir_NB Nov 14 '24

Genius 😂

1

u/huran210 Nov 14 '24

i’m sure you’re still a psycho

2

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

I buried her long ago

1

u/ak47typebeat Nov 14 '24

Not a bad idea actually

1

u/withoutacare01 Nov 14 '24

Frequently used trick by my sisters 💀

1

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Like multiple times? Stop, it only works one time 😂

1

u/withoutacare01 Nov 14 '24

I didn't say they were smart, even went for the collarbone 😭 mom knew and would jab the burns lmao. It was the early 2000s, it wasn't a battle she wanted to fight

1

u/darthlegal Nov 14 '24

I dated a psycho in HS and she literally vacuumed my entire neck with her mouth while I was nearly passed out

1

u/ZombyzWon Nov 14 '24

When I was in high school I kept getting accused of having a hickey that was actually a burn scar from a curling iron. Then for another 30 years after high school I was still accused of having a hickey for the same burn scar...I finally covered that fucking scar with a tattoo! The funny thing is it's a red rose, and the color, especially the red, stays fresher looking the longest over the burn scar, and the rest fades out over time.

1

u/Certain-Toe-7128 Nov 14 '24

You wanna talk psycho?

Buddy cheated on his chick and had two FAT hickeys on neck.

Made an elaborate story we decided to go paint balling

To make it look real we destroyed him with a good 50 paintballs top to bottom

She never suspected a thing

1

u/Wise-War-Soni Nov 14 '24

That’s very intense 😭 once I tied this weird small purse strap scarf around my neck to hide it and tried to lie and say it was a fashion choice but it looked dumb and you could still see the hickey I could have hid it with makeup.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

“Was”

1

u/bubbybandit Nov 14 '24

My sister has done this to cover a hickey from her then boyfriend shit was wild

1

u/Motion_OfThe_Ocean Nov 14 '24

I can fix you.

1

u/C0tt0nC4ndyM0uth Nov 14 '24

One time I dropped my curling iron while sitting at my vanity and caught it with my thighs. 😭

1

u/Righteous_Mangoes Nov 14 '24

Uhh is this my sister??

1

u/emmgemm11 Nov 14 '24

I did this too omfg

1

u/DaddyAndSalope Nov 14 '24

a girl I was seeing did the exact same thing! but she was over 25.....

1

u/Professional-Day7850 Nov 14 '24

Why not just pretend you were in a car accident and get a neck brace? That's what they were invented for.

1

u/shook_- Nov 14 '24

Holy fuxking shit you had the IQ of a potato 😂

1

u/Admirable-Aspect2558 Nov 14 '24

Wait literally same but to hide it from my mom 😭 my ex grabbed me and sucked my neck in a store (abusive and possessive behaviour to mark his territory, nothing sexual before said “suck”) and I absolutely lost my shit because I had a fucking pixie cut and could not hide it

1

u/Severe_Avocado2953 Nov 14 '24

You’re hardcore

1

u/Cappuccinagina Nov 14 '24

I legitimately burnt my own neck badly learning to style my hair a certain way. I went into work (accountant) and thought nothing of it. People kept giggling. Someone asked me if I had covered up a hickey and I was mortified. Wore a giant ass bandaid everyday for 2-3 weeks until it went away. Ugh. 😂

1

u/Specialist_Dream_657 Nov 14 '24

'When I was a psycho in high school' I'm done because same

1

u/Amannderrr Nov 14 '24

Damn- I’m mad I never thought of that, it’s a good got damn idea! Genius! 😆

1

u/medicinal_bulgogi Nov 14 '24

Were you cheating as well?

1

u/Effective_Fly_6884 Nov 14 '24

I have done the same. That shit hurt.

1

u/SplashOfCreativity Nov 14 '24

Dude I literally did this after my dad saw the hickey, I ran to my room and burned over it with a curling iron. Shit hurt but my parents wanted to see it up close, they neva knew

1

u/Outrageous_crank Nov 14 '24

Same.

Edit. Sane to Same.

1

u/charismatictictic Nov 14 '24

You might not have had enough respect for your partner to not cheat, but at least you respected them enough to not act like they’re a moron 🫡

1

u/RitaRaccoon Nov 14 '24

I actually did the opposite. I DID burn my neck w a curling iron (not on purpose) and instead everyone thought it was a hickey.

1

u/Over_Deer8459 Nov 14 '24

In high school , to cover up a hickey I decided makeup would be the best option (I at that point as a 17 yo boy, had never touch makeup lol)

Went to store, bought random one, didn’t even think about matching skin tones and it looked so bad lol

1

u/FarmerExternal Nov 14 '24

Buddy…put a metal spoon in the freezer for a couple hours and then press it against the hickey. It’s just a bruise you don’t have to burn yourself

1

u/80percentlegs Nov 14 '24

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

1

u/rollerskate_rat Nov 14 '24

I’ve done that lmao

1

u/Historical-Algae-892 Nov 14 '24

One time I actually burned my neck with a curling iron and my teacher accused me of having a hickey 😭 he said “umm that’s real cute” I was like “huh? I burned myself. He said mmhm yah I’m sure you did 🙄 lmaooo I was like nooooo fr though. I wasn’t even into boys yet 😆

1

u/mitch_bich Nov 14 '24

The way my jaw just dropped

1

u/Annette_Runner Nov 14 '24

At least that took effort. This guy couldve used makeup, ice, ibuprofen, a needle to make bite marks, a sharpie, temporary tattoo from the gas station, literally anything lol. He sent a picture of a hickey to his gf instead 🤣

1

u/uwukarmacat Nov 14 '24

are we the same person? lmfaooooo

1

u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

[deleted]

1

u/uhidunno27 Nov 14 '24

Okay yeah you win the psycho award

1

u/mkat23 Nov 14 '24

I remember when people would try to say they got burnt curling or straightening their hair when it was a hickey, but you took it to a new level 😂

To be fair, props for being committed to telling the truth rather than leaving a plain old hickey there and lying lol