Long term aftercare

[oschulte]

There seems to be so much info on what to do right after you get a tattoo but what happens after it fully heals? Say you hit the 4 week mark and your tattoo looks healed and ready to see the light of day (with SPF of course), do you keep washing it daily with soap or can you use the regular body wash you used to use before you got a tattoo and only wash it as often as you shower. Also in terms of moisturising, i used to moisturise every 2 days with body butter but is this potentially harmful to a healed tattoo? Should you keep avoiding alcohol and fragrance in your moisturisers or can you essentially treat your tattoo as normal skin now? 

[Princess Sparkle Mittens]

Wear sunscreen. Gentle exfoliation can make well healed (AKA longer than a month) tattoos look a bit brighter temporarily (do NOT exfoliate a month old tattoo).  Wear sunscreen. Otherwise you can treat it like any other bit of skin. Wear sunscreen though.

[Hogrider]

I never wear sunscreen.  I keep my tattoos covered.  :-)

Treat a fully healed tattoo just like any other skin. The sun is a tattoos worst enemy - just like every other piece of skin.