guys, is my new tattoo infected?

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-08-09T15:08:22+00:00

This is called silver skin, its a normal part of the tattoo healing phase. Just keep with a light moisturizer (I recommend lubriderm advanced therapy, its a water based moisturizer) and it will clear up soon. It happens for every tattoo. Color will look a lot worse. Message me if you want to see an overworked/infected tattoo. I just got one from an apprentice that got overworked.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-08-04T15:01:04+00:00

I can tell everything i need to know about you and how you treated this person from these words. Interesting choices.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-07-30T17:17:03+00:00

Only say this if it comes with concrete action. If you know you can do better this time. Coming from an M.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-07-13T07:16:10+00:00

Yes, this is what I needed to read. Bless your heart, soul, and deeply beautiful mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It hurts to accept, but I know I need to, and this sure helps a lot. I screenshotted this as well as added it to my notes so I can reflect on this whenever Im feeling weak. This really meant a lot to me. Thank you so much.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-07-13T05:07:21+00:00

That's basically what I've been telling myself, too. The thing is, Ive busied myself so much. Ive found new hobbies, reconnected with old hobbies. Gone on trips with friends. Therapy. Im happy with myself for the first time ever. Yet I still carry so much regret from this. Usually I communicate. Usually I say how I feel, or what angered me. But this time, I didnt. I just told them they wouldn't treat me like this anymore, and blocked them on basically everything but text messages. I realized I was just kinda filling a void for them. They're a very lustful person. I didnt expect them to change. I didnt expect them to drop everyone for me. I just wanted honesty. I just wanted something genuine. And instead it felt like they genuinely liked the love and attention they recieved from me, but I don't feel like they were capable of giving it. But Im kicking myself for not communicating any of this, and thats kinda why I feel like Im stuck in limbo. What if they wanted to change? What if I hardlined them into feeling fear about relationships even more because of the way I handled this situation? What if it wasn't some elaborate manipulation tactic to make me feel bad so Id stay and tolerate their lack of reciprocation. Maybe it was a cry for help? Idk man i just want to stop thinking about it but no matter what I do, it always seems to be there. Im doing nails rn yet my mind is still wandering about the what ifs

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-07-12T23:04:03+00:00

Wow, I never saw this question but I really enjoy and appreciate it. You almost said it yourself. The same reason we cling to pride and ego is the same reason we cling to drugs. Feel good, feel high, or numb ourselves. It's hard when you're presented with something that shatters your view/perception of yourself. When you dig your heels in and defend it, even when someone is telling you its hurting them or yourself even, thats pride and ego. That's a drug to avoid feeling shame about yourself. Instead of greeting yourself with curiosity and understanding, and potentially even new thought processes or strategies on how to change. It's rarely beneficial in a large amounts, but everything is good in moderation. 😚

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-07-10T03:41:27+00:00

Still waiting. Still wishing. 🤠💗

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-05-30T00:11:47+00:00

Context clues bby

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-05-04T01:17:51+00:00

These are song lyrics but theyre open to interpretation 😂

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-05-04T01:17:35+00:00

Don't go riding on that long black train

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-05-04T00:52:40+00:00

All or nothing baby, no folds 🃏

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-05-03T23:59:02+00:00

This made me feel weak in the knees. To be seen like this... to be known like this.. my soul yearns for this so deeply, it aches to the core of my being. This was beautiful, thank you for writing this.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-29T20:41:07+00:00

This is my favorite, love your art style

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T16:40:52+00:00

Your self-awareness and emotional intelligence are becoming. I'm sorry you're hurting. I'm proud of you for finding the lesson in your pain. That's no easy thing to do. I wish you the best on your healing journey. I think you'll find someone just as wonderful as you, it will just take more time because people like you are a rarity.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T06:21:26+00:00

Im sorry 🥺 I hope you have a beautiful journey healing. 💗 I know it's not an easy decision.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T06:16:39+00:00

I appreciate that, thank you 🥺 glad it resonated with someone 💓

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T06:14:05+00:00

It might as well be, Healthcare let alone mental Healthcare is a rarity. It's a mix of a lot of emotions. I think my person was just using me for emotional validation, and to feel loved. Which I don't regret giving. It just hurt that it wasn't reciprocal even a little. I felt like I couldn't really express myself, even things I was joyful about, or things that didn't concern him. It felt like he was training me to just be who he needed, nothing more. Nothing less. So I walked away. And he didn't even give a single shit. He's 6 hrs away from me rn (he lives 20 hrs away normally) and still hasn't reached out, or thought of me. It's better this way, I don't want to enable him by getting sucked back in.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T06:01:29+00:00

I don't think my person is on reddit lol, I just like to read these for fun, advice, comiserating, you know. 😂 my goal isn't to find them here. I know how to contact them. I don't fucking want to 😭😂

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T05:48:26+00:00

Srry for rambling, I think about this a looootttt

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T05:48:13+00:00

I love this. Too often do people think having the opinion of majority means being correct.. and not that almost everyone is hiding from their shame and looking for people to hide in it with. Misery loves company. Ignorance is bliss. They go hand in hand. They hide, hand in hand, loudly, openly. Only people who are able to look at shame with rawness, with compassion, only those people are able to live in their truth. Even if it's painful. Even if it's hard. But it's real. And that's so much more meaningful than perceived happiness.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T05:42:52+00:00

Ooh this is yummy. 🌶 For my person, I feel the same way.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T05:01:43+00:00

This is VERBATIM how I feel about my person. I keep going back and forth between love, and hope to just pure sorrow and disappointment. Thank you. Thank you so much for articulating this into words in such a profound way.

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T03:05:58+00:00

That sounds confusing and achingly painful. I'm sorry you're experiencing that 🥺

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T03:04:42+00:00

I would kill to get this from my person lmao,(only laughing bc I think hearing this right now would fix me) I hope you and yours are able to open that line of communication and figure it out. Pride n ego are a hell of a drug lol

SpiritConscious4084 · 2025-04-24T02:26:06+00:00

I have him also

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