Best post tattoo care?

[Mick Weder]

@Mick Weder - out of Boston, MA USA. Several flavors, but Crisp Apple takes the cake. Also recently discovered to be a delightful Post Scrub Recovery Drink.

And of course, a gratuitous M̶o̶r̶m̶o̶n̶ MONMON cat :)

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@SeeSea. I like your style. Isn't it great how we can justify and combine these 2 great past times. Tattoos & alcohol. Ooh yeah!

[polliwog]

Asked a question and thought better of it. (Wish posts were deletable.)

[SeeSea]

Asked a question and thought better of it. (Wish posts were deletable.)

You probably still have time to edit your post and paste in an off-color joke or something. ;)

Maybe that's the universal sign of posting regret - randomly placed jokes and non-sequitur comments.

[Shaggy]

@SeeSea. This ones a New Zealand cider. Is a perfect post tattoo after care beverage in the warm shower.

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@Mick Weder

I love it, I thought I was the only one after a tattoo session would go home and have a few beers in the shower. Generally take 2 beers into the shower and drink both while caring/cleaning my new work. Nothing like having beers in the shower. :)

[Mick Weder]

@Shaggy. Nice one! It's funny the cold alcoholic beverage in the warm shower routine. It's one of those secret handshake in the know kinda deals.

[Shaggy]

@Shaggy. Nice one! It's funny the cold alcoholic beverage in the warm shower routine. It's one of those secret handshake in the know kinda deals.

Mums or for our American friends MOMS is the word. :)

[Mick Weder]

LO fkn Loud @Shaggy. I just realised your an Aussie too. No wonder you were right on to the piss up in the shower post tattoo!

Fkn nice one mate!

[SeeSea]

@Shaggy. Nice one! It's funny the cold alcoholic beverage in the warm shower routine. It's one of those secret handshake in the know kinda deals.

Oh @Mick Weder thank you for the reminder. I'm again staying with friends tonight - and the larder is cider depleted! Must avoid another travesty of nature again! I'm hoping to find another interesting brand this time around - I have a nice list from the http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/random-crap/6011-cider-snobs.html thread.

[Mick Weder]

@SeeSea. There's a couple of nice ones in there. I made a point of riding to my bottle o the other day to purchase some Aspalls but they were all out. Went the Ol' trusted Bulmers instead.

I've noticed you guys have a truck load of different ciders on tap there. I'm envious.

I'm thinking a U.S.A trip might be on the cards one of these days.

I wanna ride your roads for one. A mate just returned again from riding a 30 day trip through the States. He had a blast! What to do!!.. Just started saving for another motorcycle.

[SeeSea]

@SeeSea

I'm thinking a U.S.A trip might be on the cards one of these days.

I wanna ride your roads for one.

Maybe we need a thread for places we'd all like to visit, and who on LST is along the way. Come on over! :)

[tatB]

I wanna ride your roads for one.

Flirtatious innuendo? Haha

[Pleadco]

Flirtatious innuendo? Haha

Scrubs - The Todd In Your Endo:

[SeeSea]

The importance of breakfast aftercare. Johnny Appleseed cider. A little sweet but good for a post tattoo morning meal.

[OutOfIdeas]

Sweet jesus that looks good!

[Mick Weder]

@SeeSea. Breakfast ciders are becoming something regular of late I see.

Have you tried the Sailor Jerry 80 proof spiced rum?

I just returned from 2 days riding and camping out while attending some dirt drags - and took with me a bottle of this, drinking it neat.

Smooth, moorish, and after polishing of 3 quarters sipping straight, woke with no hangover with an 8 hour ride in front of us.

I think you should try this, the SJ spiced rum that is.

Steak, eggs & cider. We choose from the exact same menu :)

"Booze, Blues & Tattoos"

[SeeSea]

@Mick - no, I haven't. Looks like I have yet another one to add to the list! I just tried Smith and Forge yesterday. Decent - more body than most I've had lately, with a strong apple taste and nearly no carbonation. Some are so over carbonated. This stuff is clearly marketed to men. Anyway, I'm certainly not throwing the rest out of the fridge, but I've got many more to sample. I promise to move any other reviews to the Cider thread http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/random-crap/6011-cider-snobs.html

[Hogrider]

My tattooer turned me on to a healing method that's working really great - soak in a hot tub for 30 minutes once a day for several days after getting a tattoo - the first time as soon as you get back from the tattoo. I usually heal quickly anyway, surprising given my advanced age, but I've had much less swelling, less pain and healed quicker since I started doing this. I had a 5 hour session on my inner arm and elbow last Thursday and was starting to peel Sunday morning.

[Kapolani]

Took the advice of my artist and he pretty much reiterated what many of you stated here.

I used aquaphor the first 3 days every 4 hours after a nice wash with an antibacterial soap.

Followed this up with 5 days of using aveeno lotion.

I didn't scab at all. Peeled a whole bunch about a week later for about 5 days.

Healed great!

[Breakme]

Sailor Jerry spiced rum is awesome, and I don't even like rum.

[SeeSea]

My tattooer turned me on to a healing method that's working really great - soak in a hot tub for 30 minutes once a day for several days after getting a tattoo - the first time as soon as you get back from the tattoo. I usually heal quickly anyway, surprising given my advanced age, but I've had much less swelling, less pain and healed quicker since I started doing this. I had a 5 hour session on my inner arm and elbow last Thursday and was starting to peel Sunday morning.

So, are you dumping in a couple Ciders or Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum?

[Hogrider]

So, are you dumping in a couple Ciders or Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum?

Not in the tub! :D

[SeeSea]

Not in the tub! :D

Ok, ok, as long as it's making its way into your blood stream orally or via the wound itself, general consensus around here of late extols the virtues of either alcoholic delight. I'm just exploring new delivery methods ;) ;) ;)

[Hogrider]

Ok, ok, as long as it's making its way into your blood stream orally or via the wound itself, general consensus around here of late extols the virtues of either alcoholic delight. I'm just exploring new delivery methods ;) ;) ;)

I like to heal from the inside out.

[Rawok]

Totally agree on post tattoo cider ritual, it's awesome. I just finished a tattoo on my thigh and my artist gave me a new after care product to try, pretty weird name but kind of amazing stuff. It's kind of "runny" so easy to apply, almost no scent and I'm digging it so far (only been two days).

Sativa salve:

[sophistre]

Dunno if I'm just lucky and heal well or if it's to do with the routine, but every time I go back to the shop I get shown around. Apparently my tattoos heal spectacularly. (It's not my immune system; I can promise you that much!)

Bandages on overnight. Everything's still sticky and slick in the morning. Hot water, scentless white dove soap, air dry. Teeny bit of unscented Aveeno lotion whenever necessary -- I'm not sure who it was on this forum who mentioned it, but the stuff with the green cap? That stuff is great. I love it. And that's it!

Ice through a plush towel if I'm swollen and hurty, I guess. I took arnica tablets for a few days before/after my first two and they seemed to swell much less, but honestly I have no idea if that was the reason why, or if it was just a consequence of where the tattoos were done.

More importantly: the hotel I've stayed at a few times in Portland serves a rich Portuguese soup called caldo verde...that stuff is magical. I imagine pho would achieve the same result. After hours of discomfort and being slightly chilly and tired with endorphin overload, rich, spicy, brothy soup is rapidly turning into my favorite form of triage.