Caring for New Tattoos in Specific Locations

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Sean Beck at Mom's Tattoos in Wilmington, NC. on behalf of Expert Village here to tell you a little bit of tattoo after care. Okay we are going to talk a little bit about different locations on your body. Where you get your tattoo on your body could change how you are going to take care of your tattoo, where if you get a tattoo on your arm pretty simple stuff to take care off. If you get a tattoo on the ditch of your arm right where your elbow bends or on your elbow you tend to want to moisturize your tattoo a lot more. Especially if it dries out, especially the seram wrap at night is a great advice for that part of your arm to because quiet often people fall asleep and bend there arm up like this and they would stick to there selves. When it dries up and cracks at the bend of your arm it is bad it would crack, it would hurt really bad. Back of your hands tends to take a little bit more attention, they shed a lot more skin so you are going to have baby them a lot more. They often get dirtier so you are going to have to wash them more which is not a hard thing to do because it is your hands. Your neck is another area where you have a lot of flexibility you want to keep that severally moisturize because if you don't it can dry and crack. Below you knees, calves, feet tend to be subject to more blood pressure you know there is where your most blood pressure is when you are standing on your feet. You would experience this the next day and you stand up cause you tattoo tends to throb cause the blood pressure it getting back in your leg. Basically you just want to make sure that you keep them moisturize, you keep them clean, if you have like any swollen or fever or anything like that, that would occurs to these tattoos ibuprofen, ice pack those things are good to use. But basically where you get your tattoo can very the amount of attention you are going to have to give it during aftercare. This is another thing that a artist would definitely go over with you."