HEALING & AFTERCARE
Instructions
Notice: All content, suggestions, advice, instructions, view and/or opinions on this website are all based on my own and personal experience and experiences. Some of the advice, suggestions and/or content also comes from personal experiences getting tattooed as well as from applying tattoos for over 12 years. Also including personal and extensive literary and video research. The opinions or statements are my own (Cesar "Czer" Valverde) and do not reflect the views of any guest artist, affiliates, vendors or any other member of the body art community.
If you've been given different healing/aftercare instructions by a different artist in the past, this does not mean his or her instructions were wrong or incorrect, nor does it make mine.
Every tattoo artist and/or studio recommends instructions based on their own knowledge and tattooing experiences.
I just ask that you follow and adhere to only my healing/aftercare instructions for any tattoos I do. If you're unclear about the instructions provided or listed here please don't hesitate to call. DO NOT follow healing advice from anyone other than your tattoo professional who recently did your tattoo.
If you have any concerns about your fresh and/or healing tattoo please call and/or come bye my shop at your soonest convenience (Please call ahead).
#1 Rule of using any tattoo aftercare product is to apply it in VERY THIN coats.
If you apply aftercare and your fresh tattoo looks wet, glossy and/or shiny, you probably put too much on.
If you apply aftercare and your fresh tattoo looks wet, glossy and/or shiny, you probably put too much on.
Avoid using products like A&D or Aquaphor if possible. I'm not entirely against these products, if they're applied in thin coats (as stated above). You could use these products if used properly.
WHY? Although some artists still recommend it, it doesn't make it wrong. I just don't recommend it for use on any tattoos I do. Because products like A&D and Aquaphor are mostly petroleum, these products saturate and suffocate the skin and hinder or can compromise the healing process by preventing the skin to breathe. Most tattoo inks, especially the ones I use, are water-based. So heavy petroleum products can actually force ink out of the skin if over saturated in some cases. If you've used it and had no problem, I still ask that you don't use it on the tattoos I do. I always recommend actual Tattoo Aftercare Products or best alternative is a Non-Perfumed, Hypo-Allergenic Moisturizing Lotion (i.e. Lubriderm, Jergens, Gold Bond).