Learn how to properly care for a new tattoo during the healing process. These guides cover washing, moisturising, and protecting fresh ink to ensure your tattoo heals cleanly and stays vibrant.
Yes, you can shower after getting a tattoo. You can shower the same day. What you can’t do is shower the same way you normally would without thinking about it — at least not for the first couple of weeks. This is one of the most Googled questions in tattoo aftercare, and the answer people…
If you train regularly, this is probably one of the first things you thought about after leaving the studio. The tattoo looks great, you’ve got a session booked tomorrow, and now you’re wondering whether you can actually go. The short answer is: not yet, and how long depends on what you’re doing and where the…
There are a lot of tattoo aftercare products on the Australian market. Most of them are fine. Some of them are genuinely good. A handful are worth going out of your way for. This comparison covers three balms that regularly come up in conversations about what actually works: Mad Rabbit, Dr Pickles, and Penguin Tattoo…
Most tattoo healing problems aren’t caused by bad luck. They’re caused by specific, avoidable mistakes that happen in the first two weeks after leaving the studio. The frustrating part is that most of these mistakes come from good intentions — people trying to take care of their tattoo, just doing it wrong. Too much product….
Most people leave the studio with a vague idea that their tattoo will “take a few weeks to heal.” What they don’t have is any real sense of what those weeks actually look like — what’s normal on day three versus day ten, when the weird milky phase kicks in, or why the tattoo looks…
You just sat through however many hours of needlework, dropped a decent chunk of money, and walked out with something permanent on your skin. The last thing you want is to mess it up in the following two weeks because you didn’t know what you were doing. Tattoo aftercare isn’t complicated, but it is specific….