Tattoo design challenge

Personally I used that bepanthen cream v sparingly for the first week then just kept it clean with soap and warm water.

And as someone else said - you don't want it to scab over.

vaseline + cling film = win.

I'm sorry but i have been told by many tattooists to never ever use vaseline........always use non oil based creams.....

NEVER use Vaseline!!!

matt that rat is the size of the one you guys had in your roof!

benpanthen is the way to go

is that how you keep that baby face?

Here it is (or at least was yesterday).

It was really flakey this morning when I put on the Bepanthen. The black ink on the surface seems to be crumbling off. I hope that is supposed to be happening!

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it will be crumbly if it wasn't kept moist with a thick cream ie bepanthen and wrapped; and or the residual ink damaged skin wasn't washed off the night b4. there are many different points of view on care. light flaking is normal, but more thicker scabbing generally less ink will hold.

Nice one fresh.

Googled it and sounds like it is doing as expected. It's not scabbing (yet) as I've been using the Bepanthen. It's when I'm applying it that the ink peels. What I've read says it will probably peel a couple of times before it heals. I am keeping my fingers crossed it's not just fucked!

vaseline + cling film = win.

Mental. Pulls the colour and blocks the pores.

Fresh that looks, well, fresh!

Cheers guys.

I realise it won't be to everybody's taste but that's fair enough.

So who is a great tattooist in London? I want another.

Some good recommendations here: http://www.londonfgss.com/thread14019.html

I can second Frith Street tattoo, know someone with a rose on his arm from them that is absolutely beautiful, uncanny. (Not sure who the tattooist was though).

Piotrek over at Frith Street looks really good.

So who is a great tattooist in London? I want another.

What are you going to get?

lol

Damn, beat me to it.

New Wave Tattoo, musswell Hill.

bepanthen ftw! when i had my first tattoo i used savlon, which was ok for keeping it moist, but it was still really itchy as it healed. when i had the one on my foot done it hurt like fuck, but i used bepanthen that time & it was ace. stopped it hurting & i found it much easier to resist the scratch! hah! had to wrap my foot in cling film to wear my shoes tho...in retrospect winter was possibly not the best time for a foot tattoo...

new wave, but be prepared for wait

James lovegrove @ sacred art

So who is a great tattooist in London? I want another.

Into you in Farringdon is where I get my stuff done but Xed has left, which is a shame (if you're into his work)