What You Should Know About Modifying Your Body
Modifying one’s body is a hugely popular thing here in the United States. After all, there are many different types of body modification that one might choose to participate in. For one thing, you can get a piercing. Piercings are relatively easy to obtain, so long as you are a legal adult or at least have parental consent. Piercing can be done in many different parts of the body as well, from the traditional ear piercings to nose piercing and even belly button rings and even more potentially off the wall parts of the body to have pierced.
And many people both with or without piercings will also be interested in, at some point, getting a tattoo. Tattoos are incredibly popular indeed, with nearly half of all men in the United States having at least one and MORE than half of all women falling into this category as well. In total, this means that up to 45 million people throughout the United States along have gotten at least one tattoo, and many people with one tattoo will have or will soon get even more.
After all, tattoos are considered to be works of art by a great many people – even often by those who do not have them themselves. And not only can tattoos serve as a kind of real, living artwork, but they can also become something of a tribute to lost loved ones, to a poem or song, or simply to something that the person who is getting a tattoo greatly and deeply enjoys. They are a statement of individuality, and something that a great many people will utilize as a means of expressing their personalities. Therefore, the power of the tattoo is an important thing and not something that should be underestimated by any means. But, of course, there are still some very real considerations that must be addressed first, before a tattoo should be acquired.
But though getting a tattoo can certainly be a great thing, taking precautions to prevent any issues with your tattoo, such as through the use of a tattoo care kit, will be necessary. For instance, a good tattoo care kit will be required to keep your wound from becoming infected. A tattoo creates an open wound in the skin where the ink is deposited, and in fact up to 3,000 piercings (and at least 500, at the very lowest) will occur per minute with the tattoo needle in order to deposit the ink effectively and precisely beneath the skin. While this process is painful, it is also quick. But a tattoo is still considered to be a minor form of surgery, and should be handled with the same precautions of other surgeries in order to ensure a good outcome for the person who is on the receiving end of the tattoo in question.
For one thing, the average tattoo care kit should contain a bandage for the first few hours after the tattoo has been given. This is an important part of tattoo aftercare, as it is far from uncommon for a tattoo to bleed during this period. However, the bandage should be removed after the bleeding stops, as fresh air is also important for the overall process of healing, as anyone who has ever had a tattoo before will likely be well aware of.
Tattoo aftercare lotion should also be a part of your average tattoo care kit. As the skin heals, your tattoo will become scabbed over and likely quite itchy. Using lotion however, that is scentless and simple, will help to keep the area moisturized and the skin from becoming overly irritated. This is hugely important, at picking at the scab that forms over your tattoo can not only open the door to infection, but can disfigure the actual tattoo itself, meaning that you would have to go in for a touch up. Peeling tattoo care can fortunately be completely accomplished through the use of a tattoo care kit. Many a tattoo shop will even provide a tattoo care kit, or will show their clients how to compile a tattoo care kit at their own grocery stores and local drugstores. A tattoo care kit will be relatively easy and inexpensive to put together.
