About tattoo and tattooing
all about tattoos...
Tattoo
Gone are the times when tattoos were taboo, when our grandmothers lowered their eyes every time they spot one on their grandsons' arms. Tattoos and tattooing have been getting more and more popular. Tattooing has become a necessary fashionable complement and one can even come across it at primary schools. There are various leitmotifs of tattoos from indefinite abstract shapes (so called tribals) all the way to refined drawings. Lately, it's been a hit to wear tattoos with names of our beloved ones. If you are thinking about adorning your body with a tattoo, consider it well, for the tattoo will be accompanying you all your life possible remotion of it will cost you more than the original application. 
Also, be careful about where to place the tattoo. The most nociceptive parts of the body are the area around your spine and those parts of the body where the skin is thinner (ankle, neck
) or the places where many nerve endings are found. The pain you will have to cope with while getting a tattoo will necessarily influence what the tattoo will look like, the way it's painted etc. Make sure you consult this with your tattooer. What the drawing will look like depends solely on him so you should consider well who you're your tattooer will be. The best way to go is probably visiting a tattoo parlour with a good reputation and a broad customer base. A good tattooer should recommend you the suitable motif and placement of the tattoo. If you are not sure what kind of tattoo to get, there are many web galleries (our gallery). Furthermore, each of the parlours should have at its disposal various motifs so in the end you will hardly know which of the tattoos is best for you. Make sure the parlour is clean (which, however, should be self-evident today), or ask someone with experience with it. Don't drink alcohol or use drugs prior to the tattooing. It would be worse, not better. There is no reason to be scared, thousands of people still live after being tattooed; you will survive it as well. If you feel sick, an experienced tattooer knows what to do. If you suffer from allergies tell him in advance.
The operation as such will be executed in gloves, the spot will first be cleaned, disinfected and then the motif will be printed. Only germfree tubes and needles will be used which he will take out of the sterile wrapping. Basically everything he uses is disposable. Once the tattoo is finished, the spot will be cleaned with antibacterial soap and dried. In the end an ointment will be applied or bandage used. Buy a good ointment in advance (the tattooer should recommend one, if not, ask in your pharmacy) that you will rub the tattoo with.
Take into account a fresh tattoo itches unpleasantly (it heals as any other wound) and scabs will be constantly exfoliating from the wound which you must not peel off in order not to rip the paint of out it! My own experience is as follows: all the scabs exfoliated nicely when I dived into water with my tattoo it was within approximately one week's time. Overall healing of the tattoo takes about three weeks, this is very individual. It is possible you will have to get a proof in case the paint is missing somewhere or it runs. Make sure you avoid chlorine, getting tanned, don't touch the wound with dirty hands and rub it regularly. If you want the tattoo not to bleach save it from sun rays with UV filter moisturizers.