Body Art Aftercare

Tattoo Aftercare

DO NOT TOUCH OR PICK AT YOUR TATTOO!

  • Wear your Sani-Derm bandage for 2-3 days. After that period remove your Sani-Derm bandage in a warm shower and gently wash with a non-scented antibacterial soap.

  • Gently pat dry with a clean paper towel.

  • The next two days after removing the wrap you will gently wash it once per day with unscented antibacterial soap and pat dry with a clean paper towel, no lotion. You may still shower regularly but do not soak your fresh tattoo.

  • After two days of letting your tattoo heal and dry out, gently apply a thin layer of unscented lotion over top of the tattoo with clean hands.

What To Avoid

  • Avoid direct sunlight on your fresh tattoo.

  • Avoid swimming in pools/lakes as well as hot tubs.

  • Avoid directly itching the tattoo and/or picking the scabs off as this can have the potential to remove the ink from your skin.

  • Avoid restrictive clothing. Wear loose clothing over your tattoo to avoid rubbing that may pull off scabs and irritate the tattooed area.

Body Piercing Aftercare

DO NOT TOUCH OR PLAY WITH YOUR PIERCING!

  • Thoroughly wash your hands.

  • Spray your piercing’s entrance and exit holes with a sterile saline solution and let it soak for 1 minute.

  • Wipe any crusty discharge away from the jewelry with non-woven gauze, clean paper towel or tightly wound cotton swabs soaked with saline.

  • Pat the piercing dry with clean paper towel or use a hair dryer on a cool setting. Never leave it wet.

  • Once daily, rinse your piercing with fresh water in the shower. This should loosen any very hard crusty matter that forms on the jewelry. After your shower do a saline cleaning.

Oral Piercing Aftercare

DO NOT TOUCH OR PLAY WITH YOUR PIERCING!

  • Rinse thoroughly with fresh bottled water after eating or drinking anything but water.

  • You may also use an alcohol free oral rinse up to 2 times a day.

  • Maintain good oral hygiene for a happy healing piercing.

Jewelry Downsizing

Downsizing jewelry is important when healing a piercing. Once the initial swelling has gone down, your jewelry will likely be too long and need to be changed to a more comfortable fitting piece. Waiting too long to downsize your jewelry can/will result in further irritation, swelling, and longer healing times.

What To Avoid

• Avoid sleeping on your piercing. Pressure from sleeping on your new or healing piercing will result in a cranky, swollen piercing and may cause the piercing to migrate.

• Avoid touching your piercing with unwashed hands. Contamination of the piercing site from touching with unwashed hands can result in infection!

• Prevent makeup, health and beauty products, suntan lotion and other cosmetics from touching the piercing site or jewelry.

• Avoid cleaning with soaps, ointments, alcohol, tea tree oil, hydrogen peroxide anything that isn’t sterile saline.

• It is important to avoid swimming while healing a new piercing. Swimming can result in infected or irritated piercings.  

Troubleshooting A Healing Piercing

Sometimes the healing process doesn’t always go as smooth as possible, we are human, things happen! Being honest about what may be causing the irritation or issues is where we can start to address the problem.

Bumps can happen, but first we need to figure out what’s causing the issue. Did you sleep on your piercing? Did your piercing get snagged? bumped? scratched? kicked? licked? poked? Did you get any makeup, soaps, shampoo, conditioner on your piercing? Are you putting non-recommended products on your piercing and not sterile saline? Has your bedding been washed lately?

In cases like these it’s best to evaluate what’s causing the irritation. Something is bothering your piercing and we need to figure out what it is. From there, go back to our recommended aftercare and stick with that. Do not sway away from that, remember, sterile saline and leave it be!

Try what we have recommended above, if problems still persist, please contact us and we can help troubleshoot what may be causing the problem.