MsCandyPants

For now it's a case of looking at a body part and thinking "that spot looks naked"! For example I was sitting down the other day and just happened to glace at my feet. For some reason my right foot looks naked right now. I'm sure once that's done my left foot will need something.

yeah, consult and tattooing in same session seem a little rushed for my liking too. I guess you should be able to tell on initial meeting if you get a good vibe though. Plus if they start drawing and it's not what you had in your head you'll know

After my arm drying out so rapidly and flaking I might discuss doing this with my next piece. Brady, thanks for reminding me about nutrition as I was taking hair, skin and nail supplements for the first 4 days without issues and I've run out. The tattoo seemed to go super dry since. But indeed I've noticed a healthy diet assists with any healing in general

I run and was told to take it easy for about 3-4 days to avoid the sweat causing issues with ink loss. I run 5 kilometres at a time though and don't exactly get home dry.

My next one is a nautical star with leopard print instead of the traditional colours on the top of my foot. hoping to get that in next week. On October 12th I'll be getting a large grey bow on the upper section of my back.

Wow! They're all so pretty! They do look timeless as well as being able to age well. Most important thing would be sun protection of course. Where I live it is really warm and you see 20 and 30 year olds getting around with really sun aged, saggy skin and awfully distorted and faded tatts.

I'm still relatively new to the tattoo thing myself. The artist's portfolio is rather impressive as far I can tell though :)

Hi! I'm only new to the forum myself. I'll catch ya about ;) By the way, I love your avatar!

Yeah figuring I'm so new to it all, I was going with the artist's advice. My skin tends to dry out a heap on my hands and arms so maybe I might need to tweak the application quantity. Basically it's looking like the lines aren't as smooth as they could be and it's lost a bit of the detail. My other 2 seemed to heal fine although they are pretty small in comparison. I'll just have to spend some extra time in the chair when I get my bow and get it fixed up. No point being mopey about it and just have to see how it goes next round. Kinda bummed in a way because it's pretty lol

Yeah well essentially the area being treated becomes an open wound so gloves would be logical. I guess they looked bad in the photos?

Thanks Pleadco! Harder to forget about it when it's so itchy that you want to cut off your arm.

I'm in Kalgoorlie WA. Short of backyard jobs there is only 1 shop. I've had heaps of people recommend the artist that did mine so I'm pretty sure it's something in the aftercare or how I've reacted to the ink. Is it possible that the revealed design dulls before it darkens again? because it looks really shiny The detail is still definitely there except in the one section my son scratched. When I popped in the dude mentioned a touch up but was mid session with someone so I thought I'd see how it goes and discuss any issues when I pop in to see the bow. I snuck my toddler (in the pram) into the shop because the guy said I could if I needed to pop in lol. I didn't want to push my luck having him in there I followed his aftercare advice to the letter though. It may just need to be tweaked for me if something hasn't gone right. Live and learn they say :P

This seems to have all just fallen off and the underneath design is really a mid grey rather than a black. My son did scratch it a few days ago but I thought the damage was only in one small section. The falling off seems to have magnified since than. Thanks for the link to the thread. I'll have a good look at that. Relatively new into the tattoo thing but I have plans for many so I'd rather look a little foolish asking questions than end up with dodgy looking art ;) Yes Cultexciter! A Hotei! I'd heard it called that before but couldn't remember the name! I was thinking if my tatt still looked iffy after week 2 i'd pop in and see. I'm waiting for a call back to check out the bow piece anyway. It's been 13 years since I had my smaller 2 done so can't remember the healing process. Well if anything has gone wrong best thing I can do is research to see why and hope it doesn't happen again.

Can dry healing be used for all areas of the body? I'm wondering if I would have lost less ink on my inner wrist/forearm if i hadn't applied any cream. It only seemed to lose scab after I put the lotion on. It definitely sounds like an effective method

So much wrong in that article. He better start looking for that patch of diarrhea to land in!

I feel as long as you like it on your skin then it's there to stay. I wouldn't cover up anything on my skin just because someone that doesn't reside in my skin doesn't like it.

Hi! My name is Candy and I am relatively new into my tattoo journey. So far I have 3 tattoos. Really probably only 1 "decent" one but the 2 smaller ones still meant something at the time and still sort of do. My most recent is a celtic tree of life in the inside of my left wrist/forearm. This was my present to myself for toughing it out living so far away from my family and support network and to symbolise how much I've evolved. I have at least 4 more designs in my head and one currently being drawn up at the shop. The one being drawn up is a rather puffy ribbon bow and that with go on my upper back. I am wanting a nautical star on my right foot with leopard print instead of the standard colours (being Australian I think the standard colours sort of don't fit and leopard print is way more me). On my left foot I want a vintage lipstick case and cats eye sunglasses so even when I'm in my running gear I can still have my lippy with me. I also want a pixie and a fat smiling buddha on me at some point but those designs are going to be worked, reworked and reworked again because they'll be in honour of my 2 children. Pixie and Buddha are their nicknames. I am so stoked to stumble across this forum and see all of the helpful info. It's one thing to google around for info but another to see a heap of people helping each other out. Anyway, I'm going to segway this with a little issue. My inner wrist/forearm piece is 7 days old and I have lost most of the scab. I popped in to my tattooist yesterday and it was only a small section missing but now it's a rather large quantity gone. The design underneath is no where near dark enough. Is it due to the skin being super stretchy in this area or issues with aftercare? I can't contact the shop until Wednesday (small town) and was hoping to rectify any problems that may be in the aftercare so I can try to hold onto the rest of the ink. Hoping I'm not pissing anyone off by turning my intro post into a help post ;)