Contents:
- Medical Video: 11 Tips Before You Get a Tattoo
- Various things that must be known before you make a tattoo
- 1. Understand the risk of making a tattoo first
- 2. Make sure the security of the studio where you make the tattoo
- 3. Get ready for the pain caused
- 4. Make sure your money is enough
- 5. Pay attention to your health condition
- 6. Don't forget to shave before tattooing
- 7. Tattoo removal process
Medical Video: 11 Tips Before You Get a Tattoo
Now it seems that almost everyone wants to make a tattoo. In fact, tattoos were only identical to sailors, motorcycle gangs, and even criminals. However, now it seems that tattoos have become popular body makeup for many people. The shape is no longer just in the form of anchors, skulls and warships, but beautiful writing, flowers, ethnic designs, and symbols that are made by themselves. Yes, people have now found a way to express themselves through tattoos.
Various things that must be known before you make a tattoo
Maybe you've also thought of making a tattoo. However, before you go to the nearest tattoo studio and roll up your sleeves, here are some important things you should know.
1. Understand the risk of making a tattoo first
If you inject any substance into your skin, there is always a risk of infection. Some risks that may occur are hepatitis, infection, or the appearance of warts. Using needles or non-sterile ink can cause infection. So make sure your tattoo studio meets safety rules to keep you healthy and free of infection. The risk of infection is what makes the experts provide rules to wait at least 1 year for those of you who make tattoos to be able to donate blood. In the first 1 week it is very important to take all recommended actions to prevent infection.
The other small risk is if you are allergic to tattoo pigments. If so, then it will be a big problem because the tattoo pigments are very difficult to remove. Even an allergic reaction is very likely even though you have had the pigment for years. Aka granuloma nodules that may appear around material that is considered alien by the body, including one of the risks. Keloids (wounds that grow beyond normal limits) can also appear every time you get hurt or make your skin traumatized.
2. Make sure the security of the studio where you make the tattoo
You must ensure that you will be tattooed by a professional tattoo artist who knows the standard security procedures for tattooing. Your tattoo studio must have sterilization certification (don't be afraid to ask if you can see it). You also have to make sure that your tattoo artist wears gloves. The medicine for ointment, ink, water and other items must be returned to its place after being used to tattoo someone.
3. Get ready for the pain caused
The level of pain you feel while tattooed varies from person to person. If you are honest, everyone must feel sick when tattooed. However, getting tattooed was not a type of unbearable pain. Tattooing won't feel like being stabbed or anything extreme.
More like an annoying pain, like a small pinch. The pain will also depend on the area of the skin to be tattooed. If you are tattooed on a thin and sensitive part of your skin, or that is close to your bone or pulse, it will feel more painful.
4. Make sure your money is enough
When it comes to tattoos, don't think about frugality. Make sure you do the previous calculations, and be careful if a tattoo artist provides a cheaper price than others. It's better to pay more for tattoo artists who are official and safe than street tattoos.
Also keep in mind, don't ever bargain with tattoo artists because that means you don't respect tattoo artists.
5. Pay attention to your health condition
It's not the best idea to tattoo when you're sick. You need your immune system to be 100 percent good. It is your white blood cells that help you cure tattoo marks. While if your body is busy fighting viruses and bacteria, these cells will not work as they should. If you havebooking tattoo session but then get sick, withdraw your schedule.
Also, make sure you don't have a busy schedule for the next few days after tattooing. Especially for outdoor activities. So if you are going on vacation to the beach in the near future, avoid making tattoos first, because the sun, sweat, and even chlorine water in the pool can damage your new tattoo.
6. Don't forget to shave before tattooing
When you are tattooed, the area to be tattooed must be shaved clean first, so you will start with plain skin. After a few days, the base of the hair / fur will start to grow and you feel like shaving it, but shaving can be fatal for your tattoo.
Since your wound is still new, shaving will increase the risk of damage to your tattoo. It is safer if you shave when your tattoo has reached the peeling stage, so make sure you ask your tattoo artist about the healing period.
7. Tattoo removal process
Lots of people decide to make a tattoo suddenly because they want to, or when they are feeling impulsive and then regret it. Inevitably, tattoos must also be removed. The process of removing tattoos can be very painful - like being pulled by a rubber band and then followed by a burning skin sensation.
The cost depends on the size of the tattoo. Removal of using a laser can cost a minimum of 3 million per session and you can need 1-10 sessions to make your tattoo disappear completely. So, before making a tattoo, make sure you've thought about all the consequences carefully.
