So after a rough volleyball game, I noticed some extra bruising on my hands, etc. I went to Google and typed in “minimize bruises”. The first half-dozen links or so were indeed tips on minimizing bruising… but they were all BDSM community sites.
How can you not love a page which starts with “Since we are in the middle of the swimsuit season, how can one minimize bruising after s/m play, so as not to wreak havoc at the beach?”
Ah, the voices of experience.
After the filming wrapped on “Roger Rabbit”, Bob Hoskins and his wife headed out to Majorca. Since Hoskins had done a lot of his own stunts – the pogo-stick ride, for instance, which was *not* blue-screen – his torso was petty bruised up, and his legs were stained all sorts of Interesting Colours from the “Dip” that flooded the set in the final scenes.
His wife informed him that he was *not* to be seen shirtless or in shorts on the neach till the bruising went down and the dye faded some…
Also: a friend’s younger son suffered from cystic fibrosis. One of the things you do for CF is to pound on the usfferer’s back and chest to break up the mucous in the lungs. It often/usually leaves bruises.
The kid was in like second grade; somehow his teacher saw the bruising and asked what caused it.
“Oh,” he said, “that’s from Mom and Dad beating on me.”
Remind me to tell you when Brandy told her teacher that her parents were starving her…
No matter what the cause of bruising (intentional or otherwise), you can minimize the effect if you take some Bromelain tablets. They’re made from an enzyme found in pineapples, sold at natural food places, and they really work.