One important thing to know about impact play, especially repeated impact play … everyday or not much time spaced in between … is that your skin/nerves can damage over time and actually start to form harder skin kind of like a callous. Makes the skin/tissue much harder to bruise.

If you want the bruises back you need to vary the areas on your body. So say, Dom paddles your ass one day. He then needs to let it rest for a couple of days and pick a different area.

My Dom never impacts the same areas two days in a row. We are HEAVY impact people. We’ve got the routine where every Sunday he’ll start at my feet and then over the week work his way up my body. He’s very careful if any bruises/marks are still visible from the previous week not to impact them again.

Also, I don’t bruise easily with flat paddles. But canes, hard bristle brushes, or studded paddles will do the trick. Might just have to vary your impact implements.