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UllrsIshtar -> RE: Tattoo (10/5/2015 9:23:34 AM)
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I've got a Triskelion tattooed on my lower back. It's not a regular tattoo, instead the ink is deliberately pounded in harder so that, in addition to being a tattoo, the entire thing is also an evenly raised keloid scar (so it's traceable and feelable in dark).
I take some pretty damn heavy impact play on it and the ink stays fine by that. I occasionally have minor cuts and stuff on it, which sometimes heal with a lighter spot than the rest of the tattoo, and so I freshen it up every now and then (every couple years) by putting more ink on.
I've gone hard enough in that area so that the surrounding tissue was about the same color as the tattoo itself, from bruising, and it's held up fine for me... that's not to say that somebody else's tat will hold up as well as mine, so take this first hand account for what it's worth...
Agreed with everybody else though: let it heal first, which takes longer than you would think. I'd give it at least a good 3 months before doing hard impact on the area, and at least a month to 6 weeks before doing anything at all impact related, no matter how light, on the tat. Just because the surface seems healed doesn't mean that the underlying ink is done fully being encapsulated by the tissue. Deep healing a fresh tattoo takes longer than you think and longer than it seems to take just from looking at the progress on the surface. Leave it alone while it's healing. A good sign that it's finally starting to be fully healed is if it's starting to look a little more faded, more dull, and less bright than it did in the beginning. A bright super vivid deeply saturated tat isn't fully healed yet.
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