scamp3@gmail.com

On Jun 14, 1:48 am, Marian <marian.rosenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 11:50 pm, "KavinTay...@gmail.com" <KavinTay...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > His seemed as good a one
> > > as any other to write a response to as any other.
>
> > Notice he said A&D ointment. OINTMENT. Look up ointment.
>
> I just put A&D ointment into google and notice more than a few places
> and people recommending it for tattoo healing.
>

And you believe everything google provides - it's in google it must be
true? People post bullshit all the time, and google very
accomodatingly slurps it up and saves it for you.

> > Scamp said lotion.
>
> I'm not much of a beauty products kind of girl and I wasn't going to
> mess around with Chinese skin lotion on my tattoo since the beautiful
> goal of whiter skin is not so unoccasionally obtained by having bleach
> as one of the ingredients.
>

I'm not talking anything fancy here - just something relatively
benign. It can be the cheapest lotion in the world, as long as it
isn't petroleum based and doesn't sting, it's probably fine.

> I was following the logic that if vaseline bandages had been used on
> my skin grafts to keep them from scabbing and itching... they would
> also keep the tattoo from scabbing and itching.
>

Bad logic.

I just finished healing a portion of a tattoo. My tattoo artist puts a
bit of A&D on and covers it with a paper towel before I leave there;
when I got home I removed it. I washed it gently, then did nothing.
The next day I washed it in the morning, put just enough lotion to
make it feel soft (I happen to like Gold Bond Ultimate healing lotion
because, unlike Lubriderm, I can put it on the next day and it doesn't
sting). I didn't do a damn thing to it again until that night, when I
gave it a light washing and reapplied the moisturizer.

Lather, rinse, repeat while it went through the itchy, flakey stage. I
exercised self-control and didn't scratch it.

The ONLY time I saw any color bleed was the night of getting the
tattoo, when I first took the paper towel off.

You did multiple days of gooping A&D and then covering the A&D with a
bandage. By your own statement you had multiple days of color bleed as
a result.

Whose tattoo do you think will look better?

A tattoo is an abrasion, with pigment. When you get a scrape do you
drown it in A&D? I hope not - that's not particularly conducive to
healing.

Unless you're immuno-compromised, your body could heal that tattoo
with no help from you whatsoever. The only reason to do anything is
because you're trying to keep the color from leeching out. Slurpy
goopy stuff like A&D or petroleum jelly or bacitracin encourages the
leeching; a light application of a lotion used only to keep the tattoo
from getting too dry does not.

If you have no access whatsoever to some kind of benign lotion, then I
highly recommend either having some brought to you or wait until
you're somewhere where it's easily accessible before you get another
tattoo (or get the inevitable touchups required on the current one).


Susan