We repeat and now we know, the tattoo has risks of infection and should be achieved in conditions of perfect health, then watched closely during its healing.
In the tattooist
To begin with, trust your instincts. According to your local tattoo artist is not perfect? Go! Of course needless to say that a tattoo is not realized in the streets or in places not suitable for such an intervention!
Reason tatouageDe Also, make sure that some basic rules of hygiene are met:
The place where the tattoo work tattooed therefore must be separated from the waiting room and the shop itself to avoid contamination from outside.
The instruments that the tattooist uses must be sterile. As for the hardware not disposable “make sure it has been passed to the sterilizer before use for the rest, needle packs, gloves, … they must be single use and sterile! Know that you have every right to request that the needle used to tattoo you or exit from its sterile packaging in front of you, please if you can reassure them.
Tattoos coeurAvant start, the tattooist should wash forearms and hands thoroughly and then, during the intervention, it must wear surgical gloves.
Tattoos féePour info, please note that some tattooers offer a local anesthetic, usually a patch or cream, rather effective, the result depends on people feeling less certain that the others. Also add that these anesthetics are sometimes accused of increasing the sensitivity of the pain once the anesthesia past … always good to know.
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So be aware that the tattooist needs to set a “monitoring visit” a few days after surgery to ensure that the healing goes well. Adding that this visit should be free.
At home
The healing of your tattoo will take between 2 and 3 weeks, during which time you must take particular care.
Grounds tatouageNi sun or sand or any other element that can be irritating, sensitizing and slow healing. Also, avoid tight clothing that could rub against the tattoo. If the crust is detached from the tattoo during the early healing, pigments, so the color might come off which would require subsequent rework tattoo. This is the reason why the tattoo must be protected in a compresses the week following the intervention; compresses to change 2 to 3 times a day.
Some tattoo prescribe an ointment to be applied to healing, it is recommended to apply under the pad. Finally, the tattoo must be disinfected every day at the frequency recommended by the tattooist and using a disinfectant without alcohol.
Once the tattoo partially healed, leave it in the open as well to continue to regularly disinfect although less often than out of the intervention.
Info: Erasing a laser tattoo
PapillonLe tattoo tattoo is for life, even if it is less and less true, the laser successful. Only problem, his prowess vary tattoos and skin types, we are not all equal when it comes to laser!
Erasing tattoo laser is a dermatologist in practice and the principle is simple: the laser damages the pigments that the body then eliminates. Please note that meetings are not sufficient to erase a tattoo and there is sometimes when the tattoo is deep, trademark or erasable remains difficult even after several sessions.
For a tattoo done by a professional tattoo artist, so good and fairly deep, it will take between 6 and 10 laser sessions to erase it! Rather painful and expensive, this technique has disadvantages, including you! Want a tattoo? Think!
