Shaving Tips for New Tattoos

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lefty at 1603 Tattoos in Tampa, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, this is tattoo care. Once you come in and you are getting your tattoo, what we try to do is we try to shave the areas so that way when we're tattooing we are not forcing a hair follicle back to your skin which later will come out and cause an infection. Also it helps to apply the stencil cleaning so that way we have a better image of your tattoo. Now once your tattoo is healing and doing it's flaking and doing it's peeling off and all that good stuff, your hair will tend to grow back but you do not want to shave it till your tattoo is completely healed. Cause you run a risk of accidentally cutting the skin and the scab of course will scab off so just be real careful with that. Also you don't want to peroxide on it cause again it's still a cut so you have to be real careful with that cause you don't want to get it infected."