Tattoo After Care

A lot of people write me with questions that make me think that it’s hard to find healing info, so i think maybe a few things here might help out…

When healing a tattoo the biggest mistake i am hearing about is people are keeping there tattoos much to wet & suffocated, skin needs to breath air for best healing.  Your skin does know how to heal itself, lotion and such are used to keep the skin soft and flexible, not wet and suffocated (lotion does not make your skin start healing)…The tattoo is 4 layers deep out of the 7 layers of skin that you have, the scabbing or peeling skin reaches the top two layers unless you soak it, this includes soaking with lotion…soaking a tattoo while it heals makes the scab deeper, if the scab gets deep enough to pull out the third layer it will show permanently…peeling and scabbing are natural & normal, some people scab much more than others & some people don’t scab at all.   Getting a scab too wet only makes a deeper scab…don’t make your scab deeper, it will ruin what your design could have looked like…do not irritate, suffocate or saturate the skin…use common sense…the things that can irritate healing skin are chemicals, dyes and fragrances, the sun or rubbing too much and so on, just use your common sense.

Every tattooer has a different hand and other healing methods work for other tattooers, if you sit with an experienced tattooist and are told something different, do what you are told.  Each tattooer will know what heals his technique the best!

the more skin that is tattooed the harder the heal will be, so be patient!