marks on knee

[evertonsue]

About a month ago I fell over and marked my knee pretty bad I'm now left with ugly marks and with summer nearing I want to wear short skirts, any products I could use to fade the marks or cover ups?!?

[Bob A Job]

fresh aloe vera is a great healer and works fantastic on scar tissue, however if the wound is fully healed it will not be as effective.

[artee]

There is a thread named 'Black circles under eyes" evertonsue. Maybe the concealer there would help. followed by makeup maybe?..It is no. 23 on body & soul at the time of writing. 
If the marks stay for a long time, and the aloe vera doesn't do the trick it means that there may be trapped toxins under the healed skin. The way to get rid of this is to take a good blood purifier for a while. 'Burdock' is one that springs to mind, but your health shop would be able to tell you what is available in your area.

[Pinotage]

Make the skirt short enough and no one will be looking at your knees.

[evertonsue]

Good idea Pinotage!

[Little Lady]

Decleor used to do a product called gel prolegene for fading scars i think it may have been renamed all though i am not certain, you apply it daily and after a few weeks your scar should be minimised.

For covering up you can buy things like colour veil which is like foundation only thicker and it is meant to be for covering tattos, scars, moles, birthmarks etc and is really effective, if you can find a college that teach beauty therapy, you could get a cover treatment done really cheaply for around a few pounds, you'll need to find the number for the beauty and hairdressing reception or something and ask but i know when i trained in it we had to do this, i would imagine it is still part of the course but you don't get it available in many salons as it is not that popular. Once you have had it done, make a note of the colours used and and the name of the product and find their website or someone who stocks it by google then you can have a go yourself. Hope this helps..LL

[PringlesQueen]

Theatrical companies sell cover up make up such as Covermark, Dermablend, Dermacolor, Keromask and Veil.

The Red Cross have advisers and run clinics where they can match up your skin tone to a particular shade of product.

Some camoflague creams can be prescribed on the NHS.

Good luck!

[helster]

try BioOil. Rub it on every day. smells yummy too. works well. Or there's always Pinotage's idea...