I just got a new tattoo a couple of days ago on my right thigh and now there is a little bruising showing up. This is the first tattoo I've gotten this big and I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this
2006-07-17 10:40:19 · 15 answers · asked by karri j 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
Absolutely it's normal. Your body is taking a major blow when getting a tattoo. The more tender the area, the more likely you'll be to bruise. Also if you bruise easy under any other circumstances, you're probably more likely to bruise when getting your tat.
2006-07-17 10:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by earzee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've been stuck with a needle hundreds of thousands of times. Blood vessels have broken and your skin has been broken and injured. Of course it's normal for some bruising to occur. That's all a bruise is: broken blood vessels leaking into the skin.
What's important is that no matter how much you want to, do NOT pick at the scab when it starts healing and scabbing over. You'll take some of the ink out and your tattoo will have white blotches - then you'll have to go back and get it re-done. And getting a tattoo *on* a tattoo is 10 times more painful than the first time you got it.
Keep it lubricated with 'Tattoo Goo' or Vaseline until it's healed.
2006-07-17 10:47:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be normal, it could be a bad sign. heavy handed artists, tattoos that are redone too early, your general diet/health will all be deciding factors on if you bruise. If you JUST got it redone today and it's already peeling, that is not normal. I would guess maybe it's not old enough to get the touch up? would need to be at least 6 weeks old, so the skin is able to go through two complete healing stages - one for the initial skin damage (takes about two weeks) and one for the layer of fresh skin started after the tattoo scabbed over (30 days to completely renew all the damaged cells) If it is too early, you need to really take care of it, because the changes of scarring are increased greatly. if it's just a heavy handed artist or light bruising, a little ice to calm the bruising and some over the counter pain medicine (asprin taken as directed) to reduce the tenderness. If it continues to be red and painful to the touch, I would see a doctor about infection as well.
2016-03-26 21:58:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be fine. Tattoos are rather traumatic for skin so bruising is a natural reaction. If you're considered then stop by your tattoo artist, but if this isn't your first tattoo, I'm sure you know the ropes.
2006-07-17 10:45:36 · answer #4 · answered by staubfinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is normal. The more tender of an area you get inked, the more you will bruise.
2006-07-17 10:44:25 · answer #5 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is totally okay that a tattoo bruises. but if you got it about a year ago that is kind of unusual. but i wouldn't worry about it that much. okay.
2006-07-17 10:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it normal mine bruised when i got mine and i have 2
2006-07-19 06:51:29 · answer #7 · answered by bboop169 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is absolutely normal it will heal with the tattoo.
2006-07-17 10:43:36 · answer #8 · answered by mimismom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably just a lot of cover work, so he had to work that area more than blood vessels could withstand! yes normal!
2006-07-17 10:45:57 · answer #9 · answered by sorrells316 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you tatoo yourself, you deserve to be bruised!
2006-07-17 10:47:16 · answer #10 · answered by patti06902 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋