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10 Tattoo Skin Care Tips

Tattoo skin care is an important issue. A new tattoo needs extra care than older tattoos. You should always take the time to care for your tattoos. The tattoo skin care tips below will help you keep new and old tattoos look sharp and colorful for yea

This is ointment that is used on new tattoos to prevent infection.
Tattoo skin care is an important issue. A new tattoo needs extra care than older tattoos. You should always take the time to care for your tattoos. The tattoo skin care tips below will help you keep new and old tattoos look sharp and colorful for years.

Top Ten Tattoo Skin Care Tips

  1. When the tattoo artist puts the bandage over the tattoo leave it there for at least two hours after. They put it there for a reason. Reason one is to keep the fresh tattoo from getting infected. Second is so the color has a chance to set in your skin right.
  2. Never put saran wrap around your tattoo because saran wrap keeps all the body fluids on the skins surface. Making the tattooed area a pool of infection waiting to happen. Not only is the body fluid sitting all over your new ink but it is leaking through the saran wrap down your body and if someone else brushes into that then you are infecting them as well. Plus the use of saran wrap for tattoos is illegal in most of not all areas.
  3. After you get home and wait to take the bandage off your new tattoo you will want to clean the area good again. Do not use any fragrance soap instead use an antibacterial soap. If the place you went gives you a certain soap I would suggest you use that. Get a warm rag and blot the area, never rub a new tattoo. Then put soap on the rag and again blot the area lightly. After the tattoo has been all soaped up lightly run the tattoo under luke warm water and remove any excess soap on the area. Then blot it dry. DO NOT rub it dry it will take the ink out of it or make a bigger wound on your skin.
  4. After the area is well cleaned. You will want to leave that area uncovered at all times unless you are going out in the sun. You can go out and get Neosporin or again use what the tattoo artist recommends for after care. Keep a light coat of Neosporin or what ever was suggested on the tattoo to keep from it getting an infection and scabbing up to badly. Do not put a thick coating on it because then this prevents the tattoo from breathing and healing right. Don't forget this still needs to be treated as though it is an open wound on your skin and needs to heal correctly.
  5. You want to apply the ointment on the new tattoo for about a week or until you see it starting to heal and the scab is falling off.
  6. After you are done with the ointment you want to keep up with putting lotion on your tattoo that is dye, perfume, alcohol, vitamin E, lanolin E and aloe free. First off to keep it from burning you and second those types of lotions may cause fading and discoloration of the tattoo.
  7. You don't want to go into an immense amount of water after getting a new tattoo. Showering is fine but no pools, beaches or baths were the tattoo will be submerged for a long period of time.
  8. When the tattoo is healing you will feel that area start to itch a little but you never want to scratch at it because you don't mess up the tattoo. By pulling off scabs they will leave marks in the tattooed area.
  9. Wear loose fitting clothing around the area of your new tattoo. Try your best not to sleep on it either. Sleeping on a new tattoo may result in the ink sticking to the sheets. If you have to rip it off this may lead to spots in the ink.
  10. Try hard not to go into direct sun light for an extended period of time this will dry out the tattoo and cause it to fade out.

These are just a few tips on tattoo skin care. If you follow these steps expect a very good outcome and for your tattoo to look as good as it did the day you got it done for years to come.


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