29/04/2026
The newly made tattoo is never the finished product ; the true results comes long after the skin has healed. Itâs an individual process for everyone and there are a lot of factors that play into how your tattoo will settle. Itâs a collaborative effort between tattoo artist and clients, once you leave the studio my work might be done, but yours has just started. Following the aftercare, being careful in the sun and taking general good care of yourself so your immune system can do itâs thing are just a few things that play into how the tattoos heal over time.
I love when I get to see healed tattoos! Itâs the only way I can calibrate and fine tune my technique - see what worked, and what I can improve or do differently.
And if youâre a junior artist, or an apprentice, I encourage you to keep a note of how you did the tattoo; voltage, needles, ink, technique. It is invaluable to know what you did, and why you did it when learning. Nobody told me to do this when I was learning a decade ago (which is crazy tbh) and I wasnât clever enough at the time to figure it out myself. I think I would have improved a lot quicker if I had been told.
Anyway - thank you C for letting me snap these pictures of your healed, magic gauntlet!
