I wouldn’t wear gloves within the first couple days. After that, maybe some loose work gloves would be ok, as long as they don’t rub the skin. Otherwise you could probably put a little piece of loose saran wrp or something similar in between your hand and the glove. It’s not the best thing for breathability, but better than having the glove rub your skin.
I know you need to let your new tattoos breathe I asked my artist and he said just try and let it have as much air as possible like when on you’re on a break and on dinner break take the gloves off, but gloves are necessary for the job I do in the warehouse — it will have been just coming up to 2 1/4 days since I’ve gotten the new tattoo that I have my first shift of the week, what do you advise? Because if I don’t wear gloves then surely dust and so on will get to it…I’m stuck. 🙁
Should of done what i done. Book a week off give them time to heal a little bit.
I understand where you are coming from, however I always work Mon-Fri shifts and can’t change that…would not like to lose out on a weeks wage for a tattoo to be honest :confused:
Stop replying with silly replies… I didn’t book a holiday for a bloody tattoo ffs! You trolling today or just always a pain in the ass awkward soppy prick?
The gloves aren’t really tight ones just normal gloves…work gloves — will the tattoo still be able to breathe and it won’t knock it will it? I spoke to my artist and he said take them off during breaks (like you said) and just use your common sense…after all considering after 8 hour shift I’ll be asleep which it can perfectly heal even more then…what would you do if you was me?
Just wrap them in some plastic wrap and wear some of those tight black gloves with the rubber on the palms. Next time you should probably do a little better planning before getting tattooed. Work is a temporary, a tattoo is forever. As wardy said maybe you should take some time off next time.
Do you have some pics of your new work?
It’s actually not a silly reply dude and i didn’t mean to piss you off :/ i was being serious though i know a lot of people who book a week’s holiday to give there tattoo a bit of time to heal? It’s better than ruining your tattoo. Theres no need to get angry over my opinion dude..:confused:
sorry if there was a misunderstanding somewhere. I myself booked a week of work when i got my fingers done.
Amazingly enough Wardy wasn’t being an ass. He was attempting a conversation with you and raising a valid point.
Why on earth didn’t you think about this BEFORE you got tattooed? It’s pretty late in the game to have it already happen and being completely unprepared for the problems at hand. (unintentional pun, there)
As for your problem, I’d stick with Powder-Free single-use latex gloves, preferably a size or two too big. Buy a box of 100 or 500 or something and just exchange them like crazy. Let it breathe as much as you can and don’t let sweat and puss build up for too long.
Bring good, unscented, allergy-free liquid soap with you to work, and gently wash the sweat and puss off as often as you can.
Why on earth didn’t you think about this BEFORE you got tattooed? It’s pretty late in the game to have it already happen and being completely unprepared for the problems at hand. (unintentional pun, there)
As for your problem, I’d stick with Powder-Free single-use latex gloves, preferably a size or two too big. Buy a box of 100 or 500 or something and just exchange them like crazy. Let it breathe as much as you can and don’t let sweat and puss build up for too long.
Bring good, unscented, allergy-free liquid soap with you to work, and gently wash the sweat and puss off as often as you can.
Yes sorry we’ve sorted it through inbox, I took what he said the wrong and I’ve apologised. 🙂
My work gloves were downstairs and what I did was fitted on my other hand to see how tight they actually are and amazingly they are not very tight not like doctors ones or anything and to be honest I’m not working heavy this week just putting stuff onto trailers so movement but nothing fussy or difficult, I’ll just kind of gently put the gloves on my newly tattooed hand and on breaks wash it, it’ll have been a couple of days tonight anyways and I’m good with aftercare I never scab just flake so shouldn’t really have any problems, I work 3 1/2 hours and get a break of 15 mins can take it off then, then another one few hours later for half an hour for dinner then a couple more hours then finished and another thing is when at work time just goes very quick so it should heal quickly without even knowing. 😀
I just hope you’re using liquid soap, because soap bars carry all sorts of nasty crap you don’t want in your open wounds 🙂
Plain standard anti bacterial soap..never had any problems with any of my other tattoos.
I need to know how to use computers more I’m hopeless with the thing for working it.
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