17/11/2025
Eye roll at the people who are saying you’re doing a s**t job at aftercare 🙄 these people clearly don’t get enough tattoos to know that this is quite possibly and more than likely a part of the natural healing process.
As someone who has traditional pieces all over their body and has gone through so much healing of large black and colored areas, I’d say this looks like it could maybe be silver skin!
My tattoo healing always had a phase where the scabbing is gone but the skin itself is still healing and the ink looks a little “blurry.” This goes away once the skin is fully healed 🙂
“So after the initial scabbing phase has all flaked off you're left with what's called ``Silver skin'' which is a thin layer of fresh new skin that's healed over the tattoo and gives it a kind of milky look to it that dulls it a bit.”
It’s just looking a little more rough for you right now because you’ve still got some scabbing left along with the silver skin where other parts of scabs have fallen off.
So i’d say just keep cleaning and moisturizing at this point and wait for it to fully heal before freaking out.
