If you are thinking the swimming pool is a good option to show your body art, this session is for you! You are supposed to know that for 3 to 4 weeks you cannot frolic with the body ink with the water splash! A fresh tattoo needs a minimum of time to fully healed, therefore you have to wait at least 4 weeks before you are directly wet this area with water.
All tattoo artists recommend staying out of the water contract for the new tattoo or the newly tattooed skin for at least 2 to 4 weeks. This time is mandatory to tattoo completely healed. The matter is not that Fresh tattoos cannot withstand water, the fact is as the skin goes through a sensitive stage, almost 1/16th of an inch of tattoo needles pinch the skin to explore your dream on your skin.
Therefore several skin wounds are already there, for which tattooed skin needs some time to completely heal, to get rid of all skin irritation and inflammation. In the meanwhile, if the tattoo is wet, get the contract with the salt water situation automatically become worsens!
However, as we knew what will happen if we swim with the fresh tattoo, now let’s know how to waterproof a tattoo for swimming! Perhaps you are not willing to stop yourself to make fun with the seawater even with your fresh tattoos.
How To Waterproof a Tattoo for Swimming
The first thing you should know, there is no invention that could fully mask your body tattoo from water, especially when you are in the swimming pools. Still, if you are intending to swim with your new tattoo, make sure you have tried a lot to cover the tattoo area. You can use a waterproof bandage, Vaseline for that.
In fact, using both brings an even better result. The after-swim action is more important for the tattoo holder. Just as you have come out from the water, remove the waterproof bandage. Wash the tattoo area thoroughly with clean and fresh water. If you need, use mild soap to clean the area. The area should be free of any salty water, or other water-related hazardous.
Use a soft towel to dry the tattoo area. Do not wipe the tattoo area with a harsh or thick towel. Just act like you are sponging over the area slowly so that only water parts go away, but your skin does not feel you are doing anything here. Do not use cotton or facial tissue to wipe the tattoo area. You also can let the area in the open air, or sometimes a hairdryer with mild heat so that the tattoo area becomes dry quickly.
Now your tattoo area become clean and dry, now listen to your tattoo artist. He or she must have given you some aftercare cream to apply over the tattoo area. Apply the cream in one direction over the whole tattoo area. Also, apply the cream on the tattoo surroundings.
if possible, let the tattoo wound healing process completely goes well. A prolonged submerging of these tattoos even with the protection can cause stinging and pain. The worst situation even can cause you to contract with your dermatitis. As seawater is full of salt and chlorine, therefore all these agents can penetrate through the tattoo wound and can trigger infection.
Also, the pool water is fully chlorinated! Finally, you can get experience several abnormalities, therefore! Like, blistering/open sores/crusting/swelling which also could make your tattoos out of line as well.
Why it’s mandatory to heal the Body Tattoo?
Already we mentioned that tattoo artists use 1/16th of an inch tattoo needle to pinch the body’s skin and insert the ink onto the direct dermis layer of your body. It’s a sort of dermis surgery according to mine! However I am not discouraging you from getting tattoos on your beautiful body skin, I am just trying to take care of your body once you are done with the tattoo!
Tattoo, yes, is the most magnificent body art project being popular day by day among today’s generation. So, I am also not far from this generation. So where have we been? yes, why tattoo healing process is essential? Actually, several things could happen if you become careless about this body art. Some of these incidents or accidents what you want to call are-
Inflammation and infection
The most severe thing that even can ruin the whole body of tattoo art is infection. The first stage of the infection is inflammation. Inflammation is a common thing, once the tattoo is done. But if you do not take care of the tattoo, your body’s skin can get an infection which will take several times to get well.
Besides this, as a tattoo is an open wound, if you submerge this open wound under the sea or pool water, several harmful bacteria can attack this open wound and can make the infection even more severe. Unfortunately, if your tattoo wound faces the Vibrio vulnificus, flesh-eating bacteria-there is also a chance of sepsis, by which you can die as well. You already know New tattoos are raw and sensitive. so
Spoil the Tattoo
If your new tattoo is soaking water, that means there is a chance of discoloration and fading of your tattoo. Sea water or pool water has chlorine and salt, which can directly react with the ink of your fresh tattoo and can displace them from the design area. Ultimately the total aim of the tattoo will spoil, and make yourself a matter of fun thus.
FAQs
How to tell if your tattoo has fully healed?
Yes, you can feel your own whether your tattoo has fully healed. Or you can also go to the tattoo artists to be ensured about healing tattoos. However, if your tattoo no longer gives you any discomfort feel, it is not itchy or red. Nor it is scabbing or nor it is flaking, which means your tattoo is fully healed.
How Do I shower With a New Tattoo?
Minimum 3 to 4 hours after the tattoo making you can take a shower with that new ink art. But you have to cover the tattoo with a waterproof bandage to do that. Also, there are several factors associated with that, so better consult with the tattoo artist before taking a shower with your new tattoo.
Warning!
Immediately visit your doctor if you have any of the following symptoms-
- Increasing the redness of the tattoo or its surroundings
- If you could not touch the tattoo area if it feels too hot!
- Severe pain
- Inflammation
- Infection
- Rash
- Blistering
- Push or foul discharge from the tattoo wound
- Fever
- Bleeding
- Itching, Flaking, Scabbing of the tattoo
- Fading, Patchiness, Blurred lines of the tattoo
Bottom Line
Never try to swim with fresh ink! It not only could damage your dream tattoo, but rather it also could pull you to the hospital as well. Still, if you need to swim with your tattoo, follow our aforementioned instructions on how to waterproof a tattoo for swimming. Also, do not forget to follow your artist’s aftercare instructions.
That’s all today! Take care of your tattoo, and enjoy Frolicking in the sea!