just a little wrinkled? its a flag and the sides are faded in blue...is it also normal to see kind of a clear-white glareof skin? do i put lotion in it? and what kind? is safe to touch it?
2007-03-16 21:08:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Tattoos
Yes, this is normal, and it's fine to touch it. You'll actually go through more than one 'shedding'. It's just the first one that's so impressive and like a sunburn; the latter are much smaller flaky bits.
It will take, really, about a month to get pretty close to it's permanent look, and 3 months to fully settle in. In the meantime you'll see a glossy look the tat as the skin comes in, or sometimes a milky look as the lower damaged skin is normally shedded. These also are much like a sunburn (speaking from painful personal experience on the sunburn).
Keep it moisturized, but not overly so. I use a small amount of unscented Eucerin, but whatever you've been using should be fine. Once the initial peeling is done I only do light touchups, just enough to make it feel like the non-inked skin surrounding it.
2007-03-16 21:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would put on a fragrance free lotion and not pick at the scabs. The longer the scabs stay on your skin the darker the pigment will be. You need to keep the scabs moist with lotion for as long as possible to get the best result.
2007-03-16 21:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by Misty B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think of of it like a decrease.. on your pores and skin to heal, it desires to scab to guard the wound & it somewhat is precisely like a tattoo that's an open wound & your physique is attempting to heal so that's forming a scab so it may guard it from micro organism, your high quality, only practice some antibacterial cream approximately once or twice an afternoon to maintain it sparkling and moist reckoning on how dry the exterior is, the tattoo would be alittle crimson around the sides & that's going to harm abit till it heals only like a decrease could whether it hurts alittle better than a decrease using fact that's been stabbed by employing needles over one thousand situations & that's positioned ink on your physique & your physique is going to objective push The ink out thinking its a foreign places situation interior the decrease that would desire to no longer be there & that's not meant to be there so it will attempt push the ink out yet whilst your tattooist performed it precise the ink ought to stay, A tattoo is an open wound manage it with care & make effective that's sparkling, wash your palms till now touching the tattoo DONT %. THE SCAB it will pull the ink out & blur the relax ink.
2016-10-01 01:48:18 · answer #3 · answered by schenecker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont let the scabs get too moisturized or they'll peel off the way scabs do when youre in the shower too long. trust me. and its normal to have some sort of fading and parts of it that arent perfect (especially if its your first tattoo and youre learning how to let them heal). just know that youre probably going to have to get it touched up. try going back to the same place, a lot of times they'll do the touch up's free after they heal.
2007-03-16 21:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by kimberbee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it's normal
2007-03-17 04:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by Diane A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋