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Title: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Sloper on February 01, 2015, 06:32:40 pm
What's the recovery period for a proper rainbow black eye and a full depth split of the skin?

I have a couple of things where I'm representing the firm in a few weeks and could do without looking like I've been on the wrong side of a scrap?

{injuries caused slipping on ice and twatting my head on a stone bench}
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: lagerstarfish on February 01, 2015, 06:50:04 pm
depends who started it, but even if he's got previous he could be out in a couple of weeks on one of those cash-for-non-offending schemes
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Sloper on February 01, 2015, 06:53:25 pm
Yes, the piss taking has been quality, but seriously though any genuine suggestions?
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: tomtom on February 01, 2015, 07:15:47 pm
What's the recovery period for a proper rainbow black eye and a full depth split of the skin?

I have a couple of things where I'm representing the firm in a few weeks and could do without looking like I've been on the wrong side of a scrap?

{injuries caused slipping on ice and twatting my head on a stone bench}

Mrs Sloper may have some suitable covering make up...
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Will Hunt on February 01, 2015, 07:38:38 pm
What's the recovery period for a proper rainbow black eye and a full depth split of the skin?

I have a couple of things where I'm representing the firm in a few weeks and could do without looking like I've been on the wrong side of a scrap?

{injuries caused slipping on ice and twatting my head on a stone bench}

Mrs Sloper may have some suitable covering make up...

Don't forget to post a photo of you all-glammed-up in the missus' slap.

Or just drink a sufficient quantity of brandy that it evens up the colour on your countenance.



Sorry. Absolutely nothing useful to add.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: PipeSmoke on February 01, 2015, 07:53:28 pm
Last time I had a black eye it got worse for a few days afterwards, and was visible for a couple of weeks for definite before slowly going
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: tomtom on February 01, 2015, 07:56:06 pm
Mashed raw chilli in the eye will Make you forget about it for a while... Guaranteed;)
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: webbo on February 01, 2015, 08:21:39 pm
I would go pirate and maybe have a glass eye in my waistcoat pocket and say if asked about the patch " it's the old war wound getting infected and Iv'e had to take it out for a bit. Then start tossing the glass eye up and down.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Muesli on February 01, 2015, 09:50:25 pm
Yup two to three weeks before all trace is gone. Longer if your skin is past its prime.


BTW your horseradish recipe worked a treat, thanks for that.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Gus on February 01, 2015, 11:15:01 pm
Get some regular icing on it asap, that should at least sort out the bruising a bit quicker!!  Maybe put a plaster on the split at night time.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Gallant on February 02, 2015, 12:03:44 am
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Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Sloper on February 02, 2015, 08:00:47 am
Yup two to three weeks before all trace is gone. Longer if your skin is past its prime.


BTW your horseradish recipe worked a treat, thanks for that.

Cheers, it should be aright then.  It's got a lot more colourful over the last two days and interestingly the heaviest bruising is away from the point of impact.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: lagerstarfish on February 02, 2015, 09:55:25 am
any chance you could pass it off as a rugby accident?
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Sloper on February 02, 2015, 09:56:52 am
any chance you could pass it off as a rugby accident?

I think 21 years is far too long for bruising to present.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: duncan on February 02, 2015, 10:10:49 am
It's got a lot more colourful over the last two days and interestingly the heaviest bruising is away from the point of impact.

Bruising is bleeding under the skin. Gravity causes the bruising to move downhill.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Sloper on February 02, 2015, 10:52:26 am
Yes, but there's no bruising down from the point of impact (i.e. the wound) which is between the end of the eye and the ear lobe, but there's heavy bruising in the corner of the eye (i.e. near the nose)
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: lagerstarfish on February 02, 2015, 11:05:46 am
ah - Shaken Lawyer Syndrome
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Ru on February 02, 2015, 11:07:20 am
Not a lot you can do really. You're pretty limited by the natural turn over rate of your skin. Any swelling should go over a few days. Get some concealer cream.
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Sloper on February 02, 2015, 11:13:42 am
nahh, I've had a better idea, get in a fight and match the other eye up  :boxing:

Ru seriously, is that a total pisstake, can you imagine me wearing make up (obviously other than occasions when I'm in drag)
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 02, 2015, 08:23:15 pm
Come clean, who popped you one?
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: fatdoc on February 02, 2015, 08:52:57 pm
Not a lot you can do really. You're pretty limited by the natural turn over rate of your skin. Any swelling should go over a few days. Get some concealer cream.

YEP.

You are old, blood tracks through fascial planes. You and Ru know this.  ( crim timelines  on actual violence etc,.. ) The blood flow to your skin, not the turnover is the limiter. Get some cover up. Get a female of the species to sort this, or you will end up looking like a drag queen... pics plz...
Title: Re: Shiner & split skin
Post by: tomtom on February 02, 2015, 09:29:05 pm
Can we start a whip round to bribe Mrs Sloper to be 'creative' with the concealer? ;)
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