Aftercare Instructions
For New Tattoos
- After your tattoo, hand wash the tattoo with mild soap under warm water. Repeat this 3 to 5 times a day until it is healed.
- Keep your tattoo clean and avoid dust, grime, and other irritants.
- You may use gauze to cover your tattoo if it will be exposed to excessive dust, grime and other irritants.
- Do not go swimming in a pool or the ocean until the tattoo has healed.
- Avoid sunburn for the life of you tattoo.
- Blood donations should be restricted for one year following your tattoo.
- Use a minimal amount of non-medicated, unscented lotion as needed to keep your tattoo area moist.
- The tattoo site may become slightly red, may peel similar to a sunburn, and may have some scabbing. this is all a normal part of the tattoo process.
- If at anytime the tattoo appears abnormally red around the edges or becomes infected, contact the staff at Iron Lotus Studios studio.
Please feel free to call Iron Lotus Studios Studio if you have any questions at 843-225-1304