Tattoo overworked area aftercare
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Topic: Tattoo overworked area aftercare
Posted By: skix
Subject: Tattoo overworked area aftercare
Date Posted: March/13/2011 at 10:16pm
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A friend has somewhat stupidly tattooed his leg, and overworked a section of it quite badly.
He asked for aftercare advice, and i suggested the usual tattoo care, but don't have any particular suggestions for this situation.
Anyone have any tips?
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Posted By: freakychild
Date Posted: March/13/2011 at 10:32pm
....................  i say let him scar, let him bleed, let him hurt..... stupidity should be painful... the professional in me says that standard tattoo aftercare will do fine.. . if he doesn't care about the tattoo (as it seems he doesn't) he could just let it scab and heal naturally.... ------------- http://www.helltrash.com"> 
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Posted By: tattooedtrish
Date Posted: March/14/2011 at 8:54am
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I had a friend that was a tattoo artist that overworked one of my tattoos, quite a few years ago (he went WAY too deep!).. I just used standard tattoo aftercare. To this day the damn thing still has dead skin peeling from it even though I lotion it regularly.
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Posted By: Keiran1980
Date Posted: March/14/2011 at 9:13am
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My advice is to try to heal a very overworked tattoo as if it is a large surface wound rather than a tattoo. It is better to lose some of the tattoo design than to have a scar. A tattoo can always be touched up or re-done (by a better artist) but a large raised scar is a long term problem. ------------- "Everyone is from somewhere. Even if you've never been there." - Ian Anderson |
Posted By: skix
Date Posted: March/14/2011 at 8:35pm
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Thanks for the input. I think he's learned a couple of lessons!
Having said that it's not too bad actually, he just didn't realise that inner thigh skin is more delicate than the top i think!
Let's see how it heals though!
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