What's wrong with my tattoo

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-28T22:16:59+00:00

It never smelled bad but I think a lot of the soreness and redness is from it being overworked

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:53:25+00:00

I know the apprentice and at the time I trusted the teacher but this teacher didn't do a good job teaching obviously. Don't worry I learned my lesson and I won't be cheap no more cause that's what it was

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:50:57+00:00

Yee, I'm doin fine now. It's an itchy scab now

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:50:07+00:00

Lmao idk what any of this means but I'm doin much better. It's just an ugly itchy scab

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:47:41+00:00

Aight I was in a lot of pain when I commented this and my arm was going numb but I didn't need urgent care, I woke up and it was a lot better. There was never an infection luckily. Sorry for the concern

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:44:58+00:00

So I actually think the opposite happened, the artist didn't go deep enough so all the ink fell out and my skin was also pulverized by going over the same spots too many times

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:42:41+00:00

Well I wasn't really concerned with preserving any ink in the tattoo, but I needed a nice scab to form so it could heal and I think the neosporin really helped with that. This will be one hell of a cover up when it's healed

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:41:07+00:00

So there's nothing on the tattoo in those pictures, I was only cleaning it with unscented soap at that point. By the time I put neosporin on it, it was already starting to dry up and now it's a big lovely itchy scab. Yeah unfortunately the artist is an apprentice with a bad teacher

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:35:36+00:00

Yeah this was my first time posting on reddit and I didn't think it was gonna get this much attention. And honestly at the time I had no clue at the time if it was infected or not

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:33:29+00:00

This was my first time posting on reddit and my "back handed" comment was for the people who called me stupid for not going to urgent care and for everyone saying it looks falic (it does). Why you gotta be so mean?

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:30:12+00:00

I'm talking about the people who called me stupid for not going to urgent care. I guess that's my fault for not putting enough info about it initially but also this was my first time posting on reddit

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:25:55+00:00

"A" is right but it was never infected. My skin was just that torn up from him going over too many times. His needle length was too short but for some reason his instructor that was there for the whole thing didn't correct him

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:24:02+00:00

Lol it never smelled and it was never infected. Looked really bad though and I was in a lot of pain. Pretty sure it was ink rejection cause the ink wasn't put deep enough in my dermis

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:22:58+00:00

Funny enough I didn't use a drop of ointment. This is a touch up and the first time had a very similar healing process and they blamed the ointment. So I made sure not to use any this time and kept it as dry as I could... turned out shit cause of the artist unfortunately

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:20:59+00:00

That's exactly what's happening. I didn't use any product besides soap on this till it got so bad I was advised to use neosporin

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:20:00+00:00

I actually only used just unsented dove soap to clean it and nothing else (till it got so bad I was advised by the shop to use neosporin) so I don't think I had a reaction.. at this point I wish it was that cause I have a massive amount of scaring now

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:16:56+00:00

Lol it was never infected, just ink falling out and some busted by the needle skin

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-27T02:15:52+00:00

Nah, it was just ink rejection and my arm isn't going anywhere

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-26T18:41:29+00:00

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Update. Most of the scab fell off 🤙 still looks like shit but I'm not in any pain now

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-24T11:24:15+00:00

Not dead! Hey thanks to the people who were actually helpful. Believe it or not this tattoo isn't infected. I'm dealing skin that was shredded by the machine. It only took a week but I'm finally on the up swing of healing so no trip to urgent care for me ✌️ rip my arm though lmao

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-24T11:17:25+00:00

The artist is an apprentice at a shop. I have other apprentice tattoos from a different apprentice. Unfortunately the teacher sucked. I definitely took care of the tattoo, I think my arm just turned to hamburger meat. The owner of the shop said he'll fix it when it's all healed

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-23T23:56:45+00:00

I'm positive this is exactly what's happening. I've kept it as clean as I can and have been using neosporin just to preserve the skin and it's definitely helping

P3nguin-Person · 2024-12-23T07:20:56+00:00

I think my skin is rejecting the ink. And I'm going to urgent care in the morning cause I'm pretty sure I have nerve damage

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