Basic Care of Tattoo

Like this: at least a week is not advisable to swim in the pool (especially chlorine, and it is the most swimming pools), avoid the hot rooms, sauna, gym and fitness club, not expose tattoo in direct sunlight because the skin is very sensitive, until the tattoo is not healed completely, watch the dust, dirt, shock, and touch, etc..
Tattoos are healing, as said, from one to two weeks (depending on your skin, an area the size of tattoo etc.)... During this time the skin is a little more touch sensitive (like, as if this example burning the sun), but not hurt, does not usually itching and is also no other side effects.

If you get any reaction, excessive redness, which lasted several days, if this pain or itching in a very similar, go after the advice back to tattoo artist and immediately thereafter to the doctor! This is for your skin (literally), so do not...
Most likely you will get orders from tattoo artist that the day after the tattooing come back to him again to review (and possibly again later, when fully healed). If the next day is everything all right (that you will be told), then there is no worry that something went wrong.

Basic Care of Tattoo

Care After Tattooing

Tattoo artist my skin covered with foil. What now?
This is a completely sterile medical foil, which ensures that the tattoo the first few hours that are most critical protected from dirt, dust, and even potential bacteria and other microorganisms. In the meantime, from the tattooed skin more or less stripped a natural clear liquid from subcutaneous tissue and capillaries just below the skin surface. You can observe how the moisture accumulates under the foil, and then may work any bubbles in it, and the like.

Care After Tattooing


This transparent foil must have on the skin somewhat from 3 to 6 hours. In the meantime take rest, read or the like. Of course, avoid any serious physical activity, contact or strokes after tattooed place, let alone foil, not scratch, and make sure that clothes or anything like do not interfere.
After this period you carefully take off the foil (adhesive patch cut) and remove. With clean hands in lukewarm water and neutral soap, wash the tattoo to remove paint residues, mucus and the like. You have to do this decisively, but do not push too much, and tattoo not case under the water longer than necessary. Wait a minute, the skin must dry on air and refresh

Care After Tattooing

Creams for Tattoo

Bepanthen ointment is (at least for us) by far the most recommended, and certainly you can get in any pharmacy, not expensive. Otherwise, consult with a pharmacist if they have something (such as Neosporin, Noxema, Bacitracin, etc.)... A petrolatum-based ointment is useful in an emergency, not the best, but it is good in principle everything that applies to the care of children delicate skin. Mandatory however, avoid some strange oil, after-sun creams and similar - this ointment and oils usually have a whole pile of materials yet (eg for a pleasant odor or flavor, or for better lubrication, and UV protection factor), which are in this case is unnecessary and undesirable.

Creams for Tattoo

Motif for the Tattoo

Motif for the Tattoo


Before the tattooing is good to think of the tattoo place and tattoo motif. With the choice of design you can help yourselves from the catalogs, which are permanent complement, and include several thousand designs in all areas (tribal, Celtic, Asian, contemporary mixed motives, bio-mechanical, fantasy, traditional, new school, oriental ...) as well as by design, which you bring in the salon, or is made by order. Repaired and overlapped can also be non-quality old tattoos.
Tattoo is not recommended to pregnant women, people who have problem skin (with pigment problems, allergies ...), or other dermatological diseases, hemophilia, epilepsy, diabetes, heart problems, high pressure, and those on therapy with powerful drugs, and persons which are engaged in bodybuilding or any other sport in which use anabolic (steroids). Tattooing also is not recommended to the people who have psychological problems or are depressive.

Motif for the Tattoo


Persons who are infected with any disease or virus (Hepatitis, virus HIV - AIDS...), as well as those who are under the influence of alcohol or drugs can not be tattooed!
On the day of tattooing, it is important to get in a sober and rested condition. It is important that the 2 days before and 2 days after tattooing do not enjoy alcohol.

Motif for the Tattoo

Tattoo Protection

Tattoo Protection


What then, when the tattoo is fully healed?
Yeah, here, these left to your own habits, desires and belief. Remember, however, that long-term and excessive exposure to sun will cause the tattoo (by years) faded.
Otherwise (especially in recent decades, when the ozone layer is already heavily degraded) sunscreen for your skin is not the best. In the last century ruled and aesthetic beliefs that tan skin is beautiful skin. Tan skin is nothing but a body natural reaction to the solar shock, so that under the skin forming a number of dyes (melanin). That protects the deeper layers of the destructive UV rays.
On darker skin (tan, or naturally dark, for example, black people) are tattoo less familiar. If you want tattoo to be a nice identifiable, reflecting the contrast in the skin, and if you want to remain unchanged, fresh paint and live until the end of life, then sunbathing is not easy. I am not suggesting that you got fanatically avoided (in the skin is due to the sun form a useful vitamins, the sun also has a beneficial effect on the organism) - but use common sense and sober assessment.

Tattoo Protection

Tattoo Repair

Tattoo Repair


So a tattoo always remains exactly the same?
All things changes, including skin, subcutaneous tissue and colors in it, when the cells are restored. A tattoo is a number (10, 20 and more) years, perhaps a little plain or lines will be barely detectable more blurred, but not to much. Black colors are in this context more persistent or remain stable in the long term as a color. If you after many years want more intense color, you can get tattoo 'refresh' and re-paint or repair.

Tattoo Repair

Completely Healed Tattoo

Tattoo is a fresh, bright, kind of 'juicy'...??
That's right. The colors are not yet fully fused with a skin that is irritated, redness and sensitive to touch. When the tattoo is completely healed, the colors (or ink) becomes more confuse, blur, and less pronounced, but more steady and consistent, namely, developing into the new skin (or the top layer or the epidermis). Then the tattoo is finally healed and become one, as will be (most likely) by the end of life.

Completely Healed Tattoo

Tattooing-Pleasant Satisfaction

Are you tired after just ended tattooing?
This is perfectly normal. If the session is long, even several hours, this is for the body as a big shock, namely, that they must tolerate the pain or extract Endorphin is a natural to make the most reduced and mitigated. After tattooing you could be a little tired, then might even little spinning in your head, you are sleepy or the like; but there is a very pleasant satisfaction of the obtained tattoo. It is best to eat something again (like before the tattooing) and at least a few hours rest.

Tattooing-Pleasant Satisfaction

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Tattoo Care (FAQ)
If you read this, then allegedly got a fresh tattoo and you want to know how to look after him until it healed, and otherwise or later. This page will therefore seek to answer the most questions pertaining to tattooed skin care.
If you done tattoo in a professional tattoo studio (and I sincerely hope that is so!), then tattoo artist will say all you need to know, on you is, that you listen carefully, and keep his instructions in mind. Remember that he knows exactly how things are served, and that he will all tell you only because of safety, health and satisfaction. So...
More about Tattoo care to follow…

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