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Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

I just had a fantastic healing experience with a slight variation on the tegaderm process
I was told by my artist to wash the tattoo as normal the night of the tattoo, put no cream or a&d on it - just pat dry / air dry and leave it with nothing on. Same deal the next morning and once it's dry "apply tegaderm, take off after 3 days and it will be healed"
Sounded way to good to be true . The problem was I couldn't purchase tegaderm so I followed the above instructions however the first 24-30 hours of the tattoo being covered was with a non-adhesive wound dressing/patch. Once I finally found a pharmacy with tegaderm I swapped the non-adhesive patch for tegaderm
I left the tegaderm on for a further 2.5 days,so probably 4 days in total
I was a little bit worried because in the change over between patches I noticed the line work was slightly raised (extremely light) before placing the tegaderm on. So I was totally paranoid that when I lifted the tegaderm off it may pull these lines out.
Anyway, when I took the tegaderm off my tattoo basically looked like a bright, 3-4 week healed tattoo. What peeling there was (and bear in mind this was only a 4 day old tattoo) was so light it wasn't even noticeable at all even to me ... There was ZERO scanning, not even light, and ZERO itching
Basically I feel like I skipped the whole healing process and I'm now of course putting in mouisterizer but it barely seemed necessary
And my tattoo is now exactly 7 days old. Incredible results
Not sure if it's something to do with the luck of the method I used (due to not being able to get tegaderm straight away) but next time I'll get tegaderm ready before getting inked and go straight to that as instructed by the artist. It was too nerve racking applying/removing the tegaderm to an already healing tattoo - next time will prefer to put it on the morning after and let it works it's magic
Seems kinda freakish lol maybe I lucked out or this product is insanely good

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

Beyond happy with this rose from Chris Garver this week. Pic stolen from his IG

If the outside of your upper arm is free I would go there and I'm sure your artist will as well. It's a pretty flat and easy to read surface. I have one there and also on the inside of my calves.