Hogrider

No, I've never seen it or heard of it. First, I wouldn't even consider returning until it's healed 4 - 6 weeks minimum. second, I wouldn't use that color again. You're playing with fire there. Taking drugs to reduce skin reaction???? Your skin is trying to tell you something, listen.

If you start nit picking and looking at it with a microscope, you'll find something wrong with every tattoo and you'll never be happy. The best advice I ever got from my artist was to step back and enjoy the tattoo. I never look for flaws in my tattoos, I just look at the overall vibe.

Another no roses vote. Roses have nothing to do with eagles and it is kind of bizarre pairing. Just the opinion of a stranger on the internet.

Actual reactions to red are pretty rare. I think it's a hold over from the old days when Red contained mercury. It doesn't itch, it isn't swollen, then I wouldn't worry about it. You'd probably have to see the doctor while it was warm. Good luck with that. I have lines that raise up once in a while. Black ink. I don't worry about it.

That looks incredibly hot. I wouldn't change a thing. In my experience when people start monkeying around with a tattoo, the make it worse way more often than they improve it. There is a difference between simple and boring. Yours is simple, but not boring.

You don't "Pull" ink out of a tattoo. It's UNDER YOUR SKIN. Unless you're cleaning it with a cheese grater, there's no way that happens. Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, Tattoos take 4 -6 weeks to heal, etc., etc., etc.

If they don't itch, hurt, ooze, smell then no, not at this point. If they are still there in a month or two I would go to my tattoo artist (don't call or email, go there in person) and ask them. If they don't give a satisfactory answer, go see a dermatologist.

At eight weeks out, if it was me I'd stop using lotion and try letting it dry out for a week or two.

Must be these tired old eyes. What do you think you did to it? Looks like you're using too much lotion. Tattoos take 4 - 6 weeks to heal, if it's not that old, then there is NOTHING you can do but wait.

Would you hire a financial planner whose investment advice only made money 4% of the time? Would you hire an attorney who only won 4% of his cases?

We get this question a couple of times a week. A tattoo take 4 - 6 weeks to heal. Unless it's red, oozing, smells bad, extremely painful, just let it heal. You won't know what it's going to look like until it's healed. No sneak previews.

It's funny, he's running around with that fine tattoo worried about it and I know a lot of people walking around with tattoos I wouldn't put on my worst enemy, all proud about them. Seriously, how does anyone not recognize that it's really nice work?

Find a professional artist. That's just awful. No amount of aftercare saves a bad tattoo.

I'd try rubbing vitamin E on it every day for a month or so to see if that helps. After 2 1/2 years though, I doubt there is much you can do.

Yes flash matters, but why would anyone want flash from an inexperience person when there is so much great flash already out there?

Let it heal before you start touching it up.

It works either way. I have big pieces. Both my sleeves and chest panels were planned out as were both my legs, which connect all the way up to my chest panels.. That's just one way to go.

You are proof that it works both ways! When I responded I was thinking about my sleeves. Both were planned out before I started, but I've thought about a hand tattoo and they don't really lend themselves to extending down on to the hand, not that I don't think my artist could. It just would have probably been easier if I had said, you know, lets do this so if I ever get a hand tattoo, I'll have options.

I agree, but if you know ahead of time that you want a full sleeve, I don't see any reason not to plan for it.

I'd just go ahead and get the full sleeve, but there is no reason you can't go ahead with the 3/4 sleeve and just design it so it can be turned into a full sleeve later.

It looks like you are DROWNING that tattoo. Just use a very (meaning VERY) small amount of lotion. You don't want your tattoo to go for a swim, just don't let it dry out.

Do you want it to look like one coherent piece, or two pieces?

I know you can't tell me anything for 3 or 4 weeks, but can you tell me anyway???

Yea, but I know a lot of people with "thin" skin! Many of the newbies on this forum seem to have it.

Just to be clear, being an ASS HOLE is not going to make people want to help you.