Tattoo/Ink & Body Piercing After Care

- - - Tattoo After Care - - -

→ You can remove the bandage in 3 to 4 hours, Do NOT re-bandage, since the tattoo is just begining the healing process, covering it will only let the bandage soak up the ink.

→ Make sure to wash your tattoo quite a bit using a anti-bacterial soap and warm water. Use a clean towel to pat your tattoo dry. Please do not use anything that might scratch or irritage your new tattoo.

→ Clean this way as often as you possibly can. The more your tattoo is properly cleaned, the better it will heal!

→ Make sure you DO NOT soak your tattoo or expose it to the sun (or tanning beds), salt, chlorinated or fresh water for at least 3 weeks. If you must be outside in the blazin sun, make sure your tattoo is shaded! Your tattoo must be totally healed before you can go swimming.

→ Put some A&D ointment in a thin coat. Make sure you wipe away any excess. The tattoo and area around it should not look all glossy. Only use a thin coat of that stuff! You should do this for about 3 -4 days, then you are free to use non-scented lotion such as Lubriderm. Make sure you clean your hands before and after.

→ Throughout the healing process, you will noticed that your tattoo area will start to flake, leave it alone and DO NOT itch it! This is also normal during this process. If you peal or itch it it might become irritated!

- - - Piercing After Care - - -

Cleaning Suggestion

All piercings should be cleaned twice daily for suggested healing times.

Start by washing your hands!

Using a clean cotton swab gently remove all crusty material from around the piercing. USE CLEAN WARM WATER.

Make sure NOT to rotate the jewelry.

After your piercing is crust free, fill a NEW CLEAN disposable small cup with warm water and add a drop of liquid dial soap to the warm water.

Using a new cotton swab gently clean the jewelry and piercing.

RINSE well to remove any excess soap.

Next . . .

In a new small cup mix 4 oz. of warm water to about an 1/8th teaspoon of non-iodized sea salt.

Dip 2 cotton balls in solution and use as a compress over the piercing.

Mouth Piercings: rinse 5-6x's a day with basic diluted listerine or other non-irritating mouth wash.

Mouth: Do Not Do the following!

Absolutely no beer or hard liquor for the first 2 - 2.5 weeks.

No spicy foods, citrus or dairy products for 2 - 2.5 weeks.

No face soaps that contain benzoil peroxide.

Sorry guys/girls. . .No hard kissing for close to 2 months.

Sorry guys/girls. . .No oral sex for close to 2 months.

Below the Belt

Clean a minimum of 2x's a day with a non-irritant soap such as baby shampoo.

Lather around the piercing and area surrounding the piercing, rinse and pat dry.

Basic Things to Not Do

Touch your piercing with unwashed hands, or even play with it for that fact.

Overclean your piercing, too much is just too much, even with good intentions.

Allow your piercing to come in contact with cosmetics, oils, body fluids, lotions, etc.

Go into pool, hot tub, or any body of water until it is completely healed.

Use alcohol, peroxide, neosporin, tea tree oil, hibicleanse, betadine, iodine, bactiracin, etc.

Use face soaps that contain benzoil peroxide.

DO NOT REMOVE YOUR JEWELRY IF YOU SUSPECT AN INFECTION -- CALL US or CALL YOUR DOCTOR!