Hello there.

Had a fourth session on my arm yesterday, and my skin seems to be reacting quite differently to the previous three times.

There seems to be something going on beyond the normal soreness and bit of red that's similar to what you get if the skin has a scratch or shallow cut.

My upper arm is visibly swollen (not just the tattooed skin from the trauma), and an area of skin a couple of inches wide around the edge of the tattoo is quite pink. As I said, this seems different from usual - obviously I appreciate that skin tattooed 24 hours ago is going to look a bit sore. In one area there's a tiny bit of blue dotting, like very very faint bruising.

The tattoo itself looks ok I think.... nothing is oozing. It looks quite yellow in places, but there is a lot of white ink so it's hard to tell what's going on.

Keeping it clean of course, and I bought some antiseptic salve today, reluctantly, which I don't normally use, as an extra precaution. It's very thick and was impossible to apply in a thin layer without dragging the skin too much, and seems to have formed quite a thick barrier over the skin. Norwegian product selection = often frustrating.


Maybe it'll be totally fine by tomorrow, but I thought I'd better mention it. Is it something to do with the white ink? Had thin white lines in a previous session, which were fine, but this time it was used in a much greater quantity.

Anyone had anything similar? How long until I should worry?

This post has been edited by amybird: Oct 10 2009, 05:18 AM

Yeh I agree. I usually dry-heal, and only resorted to the antiseptic because I was worried there was some infection and wouldn't have had the option of seeing a doc for a couple of days.