Forget your Aftercare Instructions?
Although your artist may have slightly different aftercare instructions, basic aftercare is as follows:
Although your artist may have slightly different aftercare instructions, basic aftercare is as follows:
1. Always keep your tattoo clean. Please try to minimize contact with dirt/dust/dander during the first couple weeks after your brand new tattoo. Treat your new tattoo like you would a new wound. Because that's what it is.
2. Wash your hands before you apply ointment or lotion.
3. We suggest to use a pea-size amount of aquafor rubbed directly into the skin (until you can no longer see a "sheen") for the first few days after the tattoo.
4. Switch to a white un-scented lotion when your skin begins to exfoliate (flake).
5. Keep out of direct contact with the Sun and make sure you don't submerge your new tattoo in sitting water until it is done healing.
2. Wash your hands before you apply ointment or lotion.
3. We suggest to use a pea-size amount of aquafor rubbed directly into the skin (until you can no longer see a "sheen") for the first few days after the tattoo.
4. Switch to a white un-scented lotion when your skin begins to exfoliate (flake).
5. Keep out of direct contact with the Sun and make sure you don't submerge your new tattoo in sitting water until it is done healing.