Tattoo Artists & Advice : How to Care for Tattoos

Care for tattoos by using a lightweight hand lotion on the tattoo once a day, wearing SPF 50 sunscreen, and getting the tattoo recolored and re-outlined every five years. Expect tattoos to spread about 10 percent every year with information from an experienced tattoo artist in this free video on tattoo care.

Expert: Lenny Welch
Contact: www.addicted2tattoos.com
Bio: Lenny Welch has been tattooing for more than two decades. She owns Addicted 2 Tattoos Inc, a tattoo and piercing shop designed with women in mind.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

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• body art
• tattoos
• tattoo care
• tattoo career
• needle sterilization
• tattoo shops
• tattoo machines

[lupussicarius]

Most. Forced. Smile. Ever.

[ChocolateORE]

I think she looks very good for an old woman. She must have been a beauty in her youth.

[bartlett1965]

More to the point, caring for your tattoo is important no matter what your age. You invest time and pain so why not make it last and look good as long as possible. I have used a combination of organic avocado and grapeseed oils along with vitamin E. It keeps the tattoo moist and makes it look like new even after it has aged...as we all will.

[MrGriefdog]

10% ever year thats a bit much. The size would double in 10 years. what happens if you have a sleeve

[zlayzer]

Why have a tattoo if you're going to cover it with clothes? :S

[plutoplatters]

No,you have no idea. It's the way you said it. "old woman " is not someone around their 40's ( or so) . It would be someone much older than that. You will not understand this due to your age of now.

I'm not sensitive as you put it.. just intrigued by peoples levels of insight.,etc.

As for the "rest of the world not caring" i'd have to agree it's a huge percent judging

by all the tattoos.

[ChocolateORE]

No, I know what I said, she is an old woman, or "matured" if you want to sugar coat it. I wont have a problem 30-40 years from now, reading this as an old woman, why would I? Why so sensitive?

If you happen to be an old lady, deal with it. The rest of the world doesnt care.

[plutoplatters]

are you really that naive that you don't see what an insult " looks good for a VERY OLD woman is .She must have been a beauty in her youth" ???? oh that's right..you're 22... my error. someday you'll hopefully understand where the idiocy lays.

[ChocolateORE]

You idiot, mine was a reply to a previous comment about on how unattractively "old" the woman was. And yes, we age quick, and all the effects of age come, what of it?

[plutoplatters]

old woman??? you're going to be "old" in about 2 seconds.. you won't understand this now..but you will remember reading this when you're "old" and will thus hopefully understand how naive you were.

[jdmikeg4]

maybe he's gay and likes old men.

[hoodyz13]

i agree