1. After tattooing, the tattoo artist will apply a layer of ointment to you. Most tattoo shops use vaseline or tattoo anti-inflammatory ointment, while regular tattoo shops use German medical ointment, which is very safe for human intake.
Function: Relieve the damage of tattoo to skin and avoid inflammation.
2. After applying ointment to the tattoo, the tattoo artist will wrap the tattoo with plastic wrap to make it elastic. Function: to prevent the tattoo coated with ointment from contacting with the outside world and avoid infection.
3. Remove the plastic wrap 4 hours after tattooing, please wash your hands first! Then wash the tattoo with warm water, do not use irritating shower gel or soap, gently rinse the tattoo, and rinse off all slippery mucus until it is consistent with the cleanliness and dryness of other skin.
Function: Tissue fluid will continuously ooze from the tattoo site, which also contains oil. Washing and wiping with warm water can wash away the mucus flowing out and prevent it from drying on the skin.
4. Dry the tattoo with a clean towel (flannelette) or paper towel (flannelette). (If a thin layer of ointment is applied at this time, it is recommended to tattoo a large area or tattoo the joints. Wrap the tattoo with a new plastic wrap (household food plastic wrap is enough), and the flat part can be fixed with medical tape.
Function: the damage of tattoo will not recover immediately, and tissue fluid will still seep out after cleaning. In order to avoid sticking to clothes, it needs to be wrapped with plastic wrap.
5. Repeat the above steps every 5-6 hours within two days after tattooing until it is fully recovered. Small, easily exposed tattoos (such as behind ears, fingers, etc.) do not need to be wrapped with plastic wrap if they do not touch clothes, but the cleaning times and cleanliness should be guaranteed.
Function: If the tissue fluid is attached to clothes, it is easy to remove the color of the tattoo when it is separated, so it needs to be isolated with plastic wrap.
6. It's not over yet! Tattoo recovery period is very important. ......
Be sure to pay attention to:
Don't scratch or scratch your tattoo. When it heals, your tattoo will start to scab. You should let the scar heal itself. Don't try to speed up the process. This may cause the scab to fall off prematurely, leaving scars on the tattoo or uneven color. If your hands or nails are not clean; You can also cause tattoo infection. Before touching your tattoo, you should always wash your hands with antibacterial soap and don't let anyone touch it during treatment. Dry, crusted skin or peeling skin may become itchy, but the itching in your tattoo may also lead to crusting and peeling off. You can pat the tattoo with a flat hand or rub it with a little water to stop itching. If you have any questions, please continue to use moisturizing ointment to relieve itching.
Avoid soaking tattoos. You should avoid swimming in the swimming pool, the ocean or even the bathtub until your tattoo is completely healed. There are two reasons. First of all, exposing your tattoo to too much water may draw brilliant materials from your skin and damage the appearance of the tattoo. Secondly, the water in swimming pools, seawater and bathtubs may carry impurities such as pollution, bacteria and chemicals, which may lead to tattoo infection. Once your tattoo is cured, it will be completely safe to resume these activities. Tattoos should be cleaned with clean water or shower during the recovery period. In five or six minutes. Don't expose the new tattoo to direct sunlight. Sunlight is the biggest enemy of new tattoos. Bad sunshine may cause your skin to blister and make your tattoo fade. Therefore, it is best to cover the tattoo and keep it away from the sun for at least 3 to 4 weeks, and you still need to protect your tattoo by applying SPF 30 (sunscreen) until the initial healing is completed. This will prevent your tattoo from fading in the sun and keep the color for a longer time.
Don't expose the new tattoo to direct sunlight. Sunlight is the biggest enemy of new tattoos. Bad sunshine may cause your skin to blister and make your tattoo fade. Therefore, it is best to cover the tattoo and keep it away from the sun for at least 3 to 4 weeks, and you still need to protect your tattoo by applying SPF 30 (sunscreen) until the initial healing is completed. This will prevent your tattoo from fading in the sun and keep the color for a longer time.
Don't expose the new tattoo to direct sunlight. Sunlight is the biggest enemy of new tattoos. Bad sunshine may cause your skin to blister and make your tattoo fade. Therefore, it is best to cover the tattoo and keep it away from the sun for at least 3 to 4 weeks, and you still need to protect your tattoo by applying SPF 30 (sunscreen) until the initial healing is completed. This will prevent your tattoo from fading in the sun and keep the color for a longer time.
Avoid hard work. If the skin moves too much during strenuous exercise or other physical activities, tattoos covering a large area or close to joints (such as elbows and knees) may take longer to heal. Exercise can lead to skin rupture and prolong the healing process of tattoos. Therefore, you should avoid unnecessary exercise for at least a few days after the new tattoo. If you take a fitness class, such as karate or taekwondo, you may want to warn your classmates to avoid hitting you at the tattoo. If you are engaged in a job involving physical activity (such as architecture or dancing), you may want to consider finishing your new tattoo on Friday, so you should finish it before the whole weekend, and then go back to work.
Avoid swollen feet. New tattoos on ankles may swell, especially after standing for a long time. If this happens, you can reduce the swelling by taking ibuprofen, apply an ice pack to the swollen part, and raise your feet and legs.
7. On the second day after tattooing, you can decide whether you need to wrap plastic wrap according to the situation: before cleaning, check whether the leakage of tissue fluid is reduced. Don't smear anything after cleaning, let it stand for a few minutes. If there is nothing sticky on your skin and you don't feel tight, you can choose loose clothes instead of plastic wrap.
The principle is: the cleaner the cleaning, the stricter the repeated cleaning according to time, the faster the tattoo recovery and the faster the plastic wrap removal.
Function: the wrap of plastic wrap will not accelerate the recovery of tattoo, but it will ensure that the wound is not infected by the outside world. The tattoo surface is not a continuous wound, so cleaning will not cause infection.
8. You can maintain the normal bathing frequency of 1 time within 1 day, and 2-3 days after the plastic wrap is removed is the time to check whether you have cleaned it. If your tattoo starts to get thin, congratulations, which means you cleaned it up very well. If the scab on your tattoo is the same as other wounds, it may have been neglected when you cleaned it. But don't lose heart, no matter which of the above, remember not to scratch the tattoo area and don't pick off the scab.
Reason: superficial skin healing does not mean that the subcutaneous layer has also recovered. At this time, many colors stay in the upper layer of the epidermis. Removing scab will affect the overall recovery and color. In the meantime, don't take a bath, swim, sauna or sunbathe!
A clean tattoo will have white skin, not scabs.
Tips: I know you will be itchy at this time, but for the sake of beauty, don't scratch and pat ~ ~
As long as the above points can be achieved, tattoos will not be affected by seasons and weather. Please spread the correct conservation concept and technology. I hope I won't hear someone ask me again soon that I can't take a shower.
How to deal with the phenomenon of rejection
1. Early rejection usually occurs from 10 day to about one month after tattooing, with peeling, redness, itching and other phenomena, but generally speaking, itching may be due to the normal metabolism of the new skin, which generally disappears in about 3 to 7 days after scabbing, and the surface skin will be smooth in about one month.
If the situation is not alleviated, some papules appear around the tattoo, accompanied by unbearable itching. At this time, the measures that should be taken are oral anti-inflammatory drugs, vitamin B2, antiviral drugs and so on that you can eat. Topical use of metronidazole water, enoxone ointment or pevisone ointment and anti-rejection ice crystals to achieve therapeutic effects. (See drug instructions for details)
2. The late stage of rejection usually occurs about one month after the tattoo is recovered, accompanied by itching, protrusion, whitening, repeated chapping, severe peeling and other phenomena, which cannot be healed for a long time. Treatment: oral anti-inflammatory drugs, cisapride (taken for about 3 days), topical Ai Le pine ointment or perrisone ointment; Oral anti-inflammatory drugs can use cell regeneration factors. (See drug instructions for details)
Due to the change of season, constitution, environment and temperature difference, the rejection of this small acne will occur to varying degrees. More attention should be paid to avoid the rejection phenomenon in the later period of tattoo (such as skin allergy, physical weakness, serious irregular living habits, sweating in summer, not paying attention to cleaning, etc.). Pay attention to cleanliness, and you can take anti-inflammatory drugs and anti-allergic drugs orally.
If it is a slight rejection, sometimes it will heal itself without treatment. In fact, rejection is a self-protection performance of human skin. The human body will reject unacceptable things, and this process will produce itching, multiple peeling, granulation and even protrusions.