The best place to get aftercare instructions is from your tattoo artist. Once the tattoo wrap is off, wash your new ink with gentle soap and warm water about two to three times daily. Gently pat dry with a soft, clean towel. Apply a small amount of tattoo moisturizing lotion to the area for the first few weeks. This not only helps to speed up healing, but also assists in preventing that dull appearance by combatting dryness. This stuff works amazingly well during the healing process; not only by keeping your tattoo really well hydrated but also by soothing any annoying itching and irritation.
When using it from the very start of the healing process, this lotion will help to decrease tattoo healing times and work towards eliminating any lingering dryness and scabbing. Avoid wearing anything that may rub the tattoo , causing irritation.
Heavy metals and a wide range of chemicals can be present that may negatively affect the quality and longevity of your tattoo. You may have thought long and hard about where to place your tattoo based on pain level, its ability to be covered, or even the aesthetics alone.
But one thing you may not know is that tattoos in areas prone to friction are way more likely to fade. So it's important to consider how often your tattoo will have skin-to-skin, or skin-to-fabric contact over the years. Even your socks and shoes could be a culprit for fading your beautiful ankle tattoo. When you get a new tattoo , it's important to pay attention to what your tattoo artist recommends. If you go above and beyond that, you might actually increase the chances of your tattoo fading over time.
As counterintuitive as it sounds, hot water and soap are the best things you can use and let the body do it's own miraculous healing. Along with friction, sweat can be a tattoo issue as well. Not every sweaty body part and its accompanied tattoo will fade, but some tattoo artists still take this into consideration. Additionally, both she and Fincher call out the likelihood of an amateur tattoo changing faster or more dramatically over time.
Bodily changes that have seemingly nothing to do with your skin — weight fluctuation, pregnancy, and large-scale body building, for example — can also affect your tattoos. If you're very concerned about how your next tattoo may age, you may want to rule out certain areas of your body. Some body parts are more susceptible to age-related changes, such as loss of elasticity, stretching, or sagging, according to Fincher; thus, so are the tattoos on those body parts.
The thickness of certain areas of skin can play a part in a tattoo's longevity, as well. The most crucial determination of which body parts make for the least-mutable tattoo canvases, however, may be how much sun exposure they get.
The result: faded, discolored, and less-taut tattoos. Needless to say, the first line of defense against unwanted changes to your tattoos is sunscreen.
Skin under and around the tattoo becomes dry and flakey and eventually lightens as dead skin gives way to the lighter layers below. Instead, treat every week as if it was the one immediately following your tattoo to the point that it becomes habitual and not a burden in any way. A few minutes of skincare per a day can leave you with a great looking tattoo for decades to come.
The skin absolutely reacts this way when people do not get required vitamins and minerals on the daily basis, and therefore so does your tattoo. Consuming antioxidants found in dark berries blueberries, acai berries, goji berries, etc. If your tattoo is frequently exposed to persistent friction it is essentially being excessively over-exfoliated, which can make it fade over time.
For example, a surfer laying down in the prone position on top of a waxed-up surfboard while not wearing a wetsuit, rash guard, or even t-shirt for that matter will put an upper-abdomen tattoo through the wringer more than your average Jane or Joe.
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