Tattoo Aftercare

1. Leave your bandage alone until you get
home and can safely dispose of the bandage
and clean your new tattoo.
2.  Wash your tattoo  two-three times daily
with a mild liquid soap. Gently clean with your
hand, do not use a cloth or sponge. Rinse
thoroughly and gently.
3.  Pat your tattoo dry with a paper towel.
4.  Now leave it alone.  No picking, soaking,
scratching ,poking or licking!
5.  After three days you may apply a scent
free lotion such as Lubriderm several times a
day.  Make sure your hands and your tattoo
are clean before you apply it, and be wary or
any ingredients that are common allergens
(lanolin, aloe vera).
Your tattoo should be healed up in 2-4 weeks.  
Maintain brightness over time by using a high  
SPF sunblock.

If scabs form, leave them alone, if you have any
questions, please call or e-mail.
Piercing Aftercare

1.  Most important!  Do NOT
touch your piercing unless your
hands are clean.
2. Wash external piercings three
times daily with antibacterial liquid
soap, rinse thoroughly.
3. For oral or the internal portion of
oral piercings, rinse with an alcohol
free mouthwash every time you eat
or drink anything except for water.
4. Gently check that all threaded
jewelry is tightened when done
cleaning.

Piercings can take up to 6 months
to heal thoroughly.

Any questions or issues, please call
or e-mail!
Day one-This
photo shows the
fresh tattoo .  
Notice a little bit of
fluid  (blood and
lymph) near the
bottom edge of the
lotus.
Day 2- This has spent the night
with a very small amount of A&D
ointment and a thin clean cotton
shirt covering it. This is a normal
amount of ink and fluid from a new
tattoo. The ointment  prevented
the shirt from sticking. You can see  
a little pinkness at the edges in the
closer photo below.
The tattoo healing process in pictures
Day 3- The tattoo had a
dry surface now, you can
see a little bruising near
the  bottom edge.
Day 8- The healing is more or
less complete, the surface
layers have peeled leaving the
thin shiny new skin.  The tattoo
is still a bit delicate and itchy.
Day 5- A very thin layer of
skin is peeling at this point,
giving the tattoo the crackled
surface appearance.  In the
words of the client   " This
itches like mad."
Heathen Ink wants to extend a very hearty  "Thank You!"  
to  M.H.: good friend,  tattoo recipient and
photographer-you basically built this page !