They are still bruised. someone may edit their pictures to wisk away the bruising. in fact, I saw a pic of camille and she had a HUGE bruise on her leg. in another version of the same picture it was gone! Damn photoshop....

as far the location of the bruising you described, you are clearly letting the barbell slam on your shoulders and collar bone (front squat, thursters, cleans?) personally I would stay at that weight until you can control it so its not hitting you. I find that if I use a weight that is new or heavy, or if I jump to another weight, im more likely to do things like let it slam into my collar done. you may be doing it and not even realizing it. I used to get neat bruises on the top on my thighs until I simply started dropping the barbell rather than bring it down on my legs. no more bruises!

What ascrit says. I usually hit the bar with my thighs in the hip thrust in Olympic lifts and sometimes causes bruising, and I also used to get bruising on my collar bone and delts from the catch.

That's mostly stopped now though. And tbh, I intentionally work on controlling the bar LESS in the catch because I end up trying to bicep curl it and forget all about my elbows so for me working on snapping my elbows up and letting it slam down is beneficial -at the moment-.

Any day we have lifts involved I end up bruised up pretty bad. It's probably not a great thing, but I'm all right with it....I show them off to all my friends, it makes me feel super strong