Tattoo Aftercare Tips

To get a tattoo means not only no endure all pain the process causes but also to take proper care after it, especially during several first days after the procedure. This time is a most dangerous as you may catch an infection as your skin has not yet been healed.

Proper tattoo aftercare ensures that your tattoo will remain an excellent piece of art for a lifetime, will stay as beautiful and vivid as the time you did it. Tattoo artists do their best to protect you during the tattooing session and then let you go with a bandage on your tattoo, which keeps bacteria away. Then it is your turn.

Specialists advise you to keep the bandage for 4-6 hours after you have left a tattoo salon, and it is even better not to remove it until next morning. There’s also a possibility to get a transparent tape instead of bandage for those who can’t wait to show off their tattoo, but nothing will help quicker healing than a bandage.

When it is time to remove your bandage, do it with your hands clean, and don’t put a new bandage on. Wash your tattoo with soap and then use a fresh paper towel to dry it. Let it breathe until it is completely dry and apply some oil your tattoo artist has advised you, and continue doing it for some days later. But never use alcohol or Vaseline jelly. Try to do everything softly and in a gentle manner not to damage your tattoo.

Avoid direct sun exposure of your tattoo, wear loose clothes (for instance if you got a shoulder tattoo make sure that your shirt doesn’t scrub it), be careful in shower and take general care after your skin. Your skin is a canvas for your tattoo.

After 3 or 6 days the top layer of dead skin will come off and your tattoo will start to peel. It’s a normal process, and afterwards your tattoo will be seen well as ink doesn’t by any means disappear from your skin.

You should be ready to identify infection, which signs are highly visible inflammation, excessive scabbing, rash and other skin troubles. It this happens, you’d better consult your tattoo artists for doctors may not know about tattoo aftercare, though they are good experts in their field.