Standard Tattoo Aftercare
Keep It Clean After you get home, remove your bandage. Wash your hands with soap and water. Using your clean hands wash your tattoo with a liquid anti-bacterial soap such as “Soft” soap. You will continue to wash your new tattoo 3-5 times a day while it heals.
Keep It Moisturized Some people like to use “Aquaphor” ointment to keep their tattoo moisturized for the first few days. If you choose to use one of these products it is important to rub it in thoroughly and blot off any extra with a clean paper towel. Your tattoo shouldn’t look greasy or shiny, but more like you just got out of the shower. On the third or fourth day you should move on to an unscented / alcohol free lotion like “Lubriderm” or “Aveeno” for the rest of the healing time. Whatever you use, rub in your product until it is completely absorbed. There should not be any noticeable product left.
Keep Stuff off of It Socks, shoes, sheets, bras, clothes, waistbands, jewelry, animals, other people’s bodily fluid, your dirty hands, etc. should never touch your new tattoo. Do not pick or scratch at your new tattoo. If it itches give it a firm pat or slap. Keep out of lakes, pools, rivers, sea water, hot tubs and bathtubs for the first three or four weeks.
During Healing
A healing tattoo can sometimes shed skin with pigment in it. This may appear to you that your tattoo is coming off. It is not, and everything is fine. As your skin regenerates a small amount of sloughing (which means peeling, we just like to sound fancy here at LRTC) will occur, this can be startling if you have never had a tattoo before.
Your new tattoo could get a milky look to it, this is just the same exfoliation process. Make sure you don’t scrub your tattoo. You should only use your clean fingertips during cleaning.
Your new tattoo might itch, but do not scratch it as scratching will only irritate the tissue, prolong healing, and could degrade the quality of your tattoo.
If you don’t clean and moisturize your tattoo properly it could get irritated or scabby, both of which are not conducive to a beautiful, healed tattoo.
If you let something touch or stick to your tattoo, when that something moves or is removed, the quality of your tattoo could be compromised. Should something stick and dry to your tattoo, don’t rip it off. Take whatever is stuck to you into the shower with you and let warm water saturate the item until it comes off by itself. This is most likely going to be a shirt or a sheet.
After you are healed make sure you apply sun block every time you get in the sun. Like a t-shirt left by the pool, the sun will take its toll on your tattoo and rob you of the color and contrast before you know it.
A recommendation that an individual seek medical attention if the tattoo site, brand site, or body piercing site becomes infected or painful or if the person develops a fever shortly after being tattooed, branded or having a body piercing performed.
*As long as a copy of your consent form is provided, you are allowed to donate blood within the deferral period.
If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact us.
Lightning Revival Tattoo Company
2237 84th st SW Byron Center, MI 49315
616.277.4054