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Personally, I keep the tattoo nice and moist with Bepanthen and covered with cling film for the first 3 or 4 days. If it dries out, you get scabs, which take much longer to heal. On the first few days I clean it and replace the bepanthen/cling film a few times, but the the extra couple of days I just keep it covered while at work so no clothes are going to rub it and dry it out then take the cling film off at home so it can get some air.
Doing this I find the tattoo heals in under a week, no scabs are formed and the top layer that would scab, comes off as normal skin, then it is just a matter of moisturising it in the morning and evening until the next couple layers of skin have been replaced and it is basically the finished article.