In this thread, we commiserate about healing our fresh tattoos.

[marley mission]

loathe the healing process

getting tattooed - love it

the heal - na

[purplelace]

*nods* And I know from previous heavy blackwork, that this will itch like a fucking bastard! Bepanthen will be my best friend, as is usual post tattoo. The paracetamol is doing it's job and it's not swelling much. Redness is also gone, bit bruised around outside of wings and above Tyrael's head. It looks like he's got a dark halo! lol well okay if a halo was squished.

At least my bosses/co-workers no longer pass any remarks when lift jeans leg up to apply bepanthen. Nor do they comment on having nappy cream on my desk lol

[sophistre]

The itching is never fun, but I'm weirdly more annoyed by the hazy/cloudy/milky look this time around. It's really intense on the inside of my arm. I don't usually have a second peel to speak of, but I'm pretty sure this time I will.

It is interfering wtih my ability to admire my tattoo. Go away, skin haze, you're lame.

[marley mission]

The itching is never fun, but I'm weirdly more annoyed by the hazy/cloudy/milky look this time around. It's really intense on the inside of my arm. I don't usually have a second peel to speak of, but I'm pretty sure this time I will.

It is interfering wtih my ability to admire my tattoo. Go away, skin haze, you're lame.

trick is to forget about the tattoo for a month - hate that haze too

[purplelace]

And...the itching has started, Bepanthen is my best friend. When I got Angel Tyrael done, it still looked damn good during that haze, but maybe it was cause of the nature of the tattoo? Fuck, I dunno. Am I even making sense? Am still on first cuppa of the day here. Generally speaking though that hazy bit, never bothers me. I love seeing how the tattoo progresses from how it looks on the day, to how it changes and will eventually look. Maybe I'm just weird?

No need to answer that last question lol

[Fala]

My tattoo went through two peels overall, and a third peel in a heavily inked spot. That was new. Looks great though!

[Marwin3000]

I'm on my fourth day of healing a piece on th outside of my lower arm! Everything is going great so far. I always use Aquaphor the three first days, and after that I'm using a mild lotion! Works wonders for me!

[SeeSea]

^^^ Where are the cries for commiseration with a bunch of you lately?!? Where are the laments for massive itchification and scratching and sticking to the sheets? For color loss and cankles and other assorted swellings and dangling precariously over toilet seats?

I propose a new rule for LST - Thou shalt not come to the commiseration thread and happily dance about in joy that your healing is going beautifully.

<insert repeated lashings with a well-used fundushi>

[marley mission]

ok well it has occurred to me the best way to forget about your rough healing itchy scratchy hazy mess of your healing tattoo is...

...getting a new tattoo while the other is still healing

totally diverts the attention away from your healing tattoo

before you know it your other tattoo is all good

but then of course you're back in the process of healing another tattoo

oh the tangled web...

[Marwin3000]

^^^ Where are the cries for commiseration with a bunch of you lately?!? Where are the laments for massive itchification and scratching and sticking to the sheets? For color loss and cankles and other assorted swellings and dangling precariously over toilet seats?

I propose a new rule for LST - Thou shalt not come to the commiseration thread and happily dance about in joy that your healing is going beautifully.

<insert repeated lashings with a well-used fundushi>

Well, now that I think about I do have a terrible itch and I'm flaking like hell. I've also ruined three bed sheets! :(

[SeeSea]

@Marwin3000 - nice save!

[Diana90]

I just had my latest tattoo touched up. Its looking pretty off right now and has also just finished flaking. Now I have that weird looking film over it, luckily it hasn't itched, but I do find myself sleeping very cautiously. Why do we do this...lol.

[ItsNewport]

Healing a backpiece while having a job that means you're sat in a chair for ~10 hours a day, not exactly fun so far. At least i haven't started itching yet

[sophistre]

This last tattoo has been godawful to heal. God help me if I forget not to bend over and reach down to pick stuff up; feels like every vein in my forearm is about to explode from the blood pressure in the vicinity of the tattoo. Training at the gym was godawful on Tuesday. Even just swinging my arms naturally while I walk makes it feel tight and throbby.

This makes me super-excited to get into leg tattoos, obviously!*

*no it doesn't

[Breakme]

@sophistre the forearms are a bitch aren't they. Don't let it put you off leg tattoos, the swelling and throbbing is so worth it.

Yeah, I know how that sounds, and I'm gonna leave it there anyway ;-)

[Euchlid]

Healing a big thigh piece (5.5hrs) under saniderm. It's 4 days after it was finished and it's suuuuuuper fucking itchy right now.

[ItsNewport]

Don't want to speak too soon but i think i've got away really lightly with this tattoo. Barely had any itching at all and i'm now a full week after the session - plenty of peeling going on but so far it's been a real breeze.

Used bepanthen for the first couple of days just to help everything settle down, but i've used nothing for the last 4-5 days and felt just fine.

[Tornado6]

Is there any technical reason why my right ankle swelled and hurt for almost a week, and the left one hardly hurts two days out? The tattoos are in the same place from side to side, but it seems pretty obvious they aren't applied in the same way. I'm sure it isn't because I'm so tough now :)

[briantopp]

Got my inner forearm tattooed yesterday. 6 hrs spent on it and today it hurts like an absolute beast and my forearm is so swollen that I look like popeye. Bad times.

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[Hands On]

Got my inner forearm tattooed yesterday. 6 hrs spent on it and today it hurts like an absolute beast and my forearm is so swollen that I look like popeye. Bad times.

I wouldn't go poppin' a can of spinach right now... who knows what might happen!?!!

[Tornado6]

Baby shed

Gosh, today the baby chameleon and I are hanging out, peeling.

[pidjones]

Gosh, today the baby chameleon and I are hanging out, peeling.

Yeah, I'm about 50% shed off right now. Never has hurt and only yesterday itched a little. I'm wearing a fake tattoo sleeve over it (kind of like a heavy nylon stocking) to keep it from rubbing against things and it contains the flakes so I can dump them in the sink when I take it off to wash it. There were still flakes all over the sheets and my recliner.

[PackMan]

do you heal differently in the the winter or summer months?

Just got shading done on foodog sleeve Saturday. Other than washing, I'm using a little h2ocean i had leftover, maybe once a day. Everything great so far...but i imagine in the next couple of days, the peeling will begin.

[Mark Bee]

I'm healing a crunchy, stingy bastard on my upper thigh. I'll be glad when this is done.

[marley mission]

healing upper thigh right now too

going well

itchy flaky

more chest and ribs coming up in the next month

muhwahaha