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    Sleep and a fresh back piece ?

    in Tattoo After Care

    Posted

    'Derm is great and I've had a lot of success with it in the past.

    However, since application is an issue, I wouldn't recommend it in this context. I'm 7 sessions deep in my backpiece and haven't had any issues sleeping on the fresh tattoo doing the following:

    1) Wash tattoo the before bed after the appt. 

    2) Re-wrap using saran wrap and medical tape

    3) Wear a loose T-shirt overtop

    4) Carefully remove in the morning (soak T-shirt in shower and remove there if your wrap-job didn't hold up and some of the tattoo is sticking to the shirt). 

    5) Wash tattoo and go about your day

    After the first night I haven't had much issue with a lot of plasma weeping. Sleeping was pretty "normal" after that. Not saying it's "pillow-soft-comfortable", but it's about as normal as can be the first few days post tattoo. Also, with my backpiece the sessions are almost always more heavily biased to one side of my body than the other, so I've gotten away with sleeping on my less tattooed side, pretty comfortably. 

    Good luck!

    Upcoming Tattoos

    in General Tattoo Discussion

    Posted

    On 10/19/2016 at 5:24 AM, ItsNewport said:

    I live in England and the best advice i can give you is go for it! Although i'm not sure exactly where you live so it might be a hell of a lot more expensive than it is for me, this will be my 4th trip to be tattooed by Marius and it's so worth it.

     

    Edit: Profile says you're in the States so yeah, the cost isn't really comparible. It's costing me £45 for a return flight (around 55 dollars US). In that case i feel your pain!

    One day...he's on my list. I swear almost everything I see from him totally floors me. 

    I live in California, so the travel will likely be a bit more than $55 ;)

    Restaurant Refuses Service to Man Because of Facial Tattoos

    in WTF in the News

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    @Kracov

    I know that:

    "Man mildly inconvenienced due to voluntary, likely to be ostracizing, cosmetic choice" isn't as fun a headline but come on...

    This is not a civil rights instance. Or at least it shouldn't be. Equating this circumstance to the terrible divisions and hate people faced (and still do in many parts of the world) is "embarrassing". Lumping things like this in with legitimate cases of discrimination trivializes the injustices those people are facing. 

    And, since you side-stepped it in your other response: Who's rights are being violated if you are required by law to provide a service or labor for someone against your will because of a cosmetic life choice they made? Do others have a right to your labor simply because they ask? 

    Rights have to go both ways if they are rights. 

     

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