1 When you first get a bruise, it's kind of reddish as the blood appears under the skin.  Within 1 or 2 days, the hemoglobin (an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen) in the blood changes and your bruise turns bluish-purple or even blackish.
balmy-mild and pleasant; balmy days and nights; the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth; a soft breeze. mild, soft. clement - (of weather or climate) physically mild; clement weather.
Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context. Her gauzy flowing robes might not be very warm, yet the weather wasn't at all chilly, but rather mild and balmy, like a spring day.