After your tattoo is done the artist will cover the New tattoo with a heap of Vaseline and then bandages up the whole thing, they give you these instructions:
Different Tattoo Artist have their personal Tattoo care Instructions.
Tattoo Care Instructions:
1. Remove band-aid in 3 to 5 hrs. (best time is within 3 hrs)
2. Wash tattoo immediately, with Johnson an Johnson's baby soap and water
When washing off the tattoo, there should be old ink & some body
fluids. At this state there is little that can harm the tattoo.
3. When skin feels like normal wet skin, pat dry.
4. Put nothing on the tattoo for 3 days.
5. During this period avoid taking showers and direct contact with water. Of you do take a shower apply a ver thing coat of Vaseline.
6. From the 4th day, apply the *tiniest* amount of lotion possible once
a day to keep it from drying out completely; gently work it in.Just a drop of lotion for a 2 by 2 inch tattoo
7. Do not get the tattoo wet; moisture is your enemy.
8. Do not permit sun on tattoo.
9. Scabbing may or may not occur. Scabbing is normal. Do not pick the scab.
10. Various parts of the body and skin types have different healing time and pattern.Average time for a tattoo to heal is2 weeks and complete healing takes 30 to 35 days (Foot tattoos take longer to heal).
