What happens if you scratched your tattoo?

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What happens if you scratched your tattoo? Okay last night i was half sleep and i made the biggest mistake of my life and scratched my tattoo. woke up today and noticed a piece of skin was peeled off and it is also lighter then the other area. what should i do? its not big at all bit im still very nerves. and i also c a little bit of ink their but please would somebody help.

7 months ago

her

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never put saram wrap on a tattoo! unless u just left da tattoo shop n even at that it should only be on for a max of 2hrs after u just got it done. why? tattoos need to breath n if u smother them like that or over do a&d ointment on it ull cause all da color to "bleed out" ne way don't worry bout where u scratched color out leave it alone lots more color gonna scap n fall naturally n it'll prob blend fine an un-noticeable. if not touch it up most artist do it free of charge if u book right after healin over. trust me i got 14 15 myself

Cam

the piece that got scratched off is going to be slightly lighter than the rest of the tattoo. Just try not to scratch anymore and u'll b fine. Usually the scratched areas are not even noticeable for a couple of years anyway A small touch up can fix it once ur all healed up kyle

try not to scratch it again, and get it touched up once it is healed, when i got my leg tattoo, one thing that helped was putting saran wrap on it, (taped and etc,) to stop it form getting irritated through the night, it helped the healing process in my view, i lost no color and healed up fine in 2 weeks.

tipsyver..

picking tattoos is never good. i had a similar thing happen to me, and i thought it would be ok, since i could still see some ink where it was picked, but no ive got a significantly lighter spot. sorry but you just blotched the color. sucks.