LIP TATTOO AFTERCARE
✔ Do
• Use an icepack (wrapped in something clean) or take ibuprofen if your lips feel swollen and there is bruising present.
• Use a straw whist drinking and avoid salty or spicy food if your lips feel tender for the first few days.
• Keep your lips clean and dry, but moisturised, for the first 7-10 days.
• Avoid shower water running directly over your face for the first 7-10 days.
• Avoid steamy baths & showers, saunas, steam rooms & swimming pools for the first 7-10 days.
• Avoid intense sweaty exercise for 7-10 days. Light, gentle exercising is okay after 3-4 days.
• Avoid direct sun exposure for 2 weeks.
✘ Don’t
• Touch, bite, peel or scratch your lips.
• Put lip liner, lipstick, lip gloss, cleansers, lotions (other than provided) on or close to your brows for 1-2 weeks to avoid irritation & cross contamination.
• Have facials or other face beauty treatments done for 1 week to avoid irritation & cross contamination.
• Have lip fillers or use sunbeds, chemical peels or any strong face treatment (near your lips) for 4 weeks as your skin will not be healed enough.
Long term
• Make sure you wear a daily SPF to protect your lips, and a higher one when on holiday.
• If sunbathing or using tanning beds, please keep your lips covered - UV exposure leads to faded, chalky lips.
• Do not use anti-aging creams, chemical peels, acids or retinols on or close to your lips ever!
• Use an icepack (wrapped in something clean) or take ibuprofen if your lips feel swollen and there is bruising present.
• Use a straw whist drinking and avoid salty or spicy food if your lips feel tender for the first few days.
• Keep your lips clean and dry, but moisturised, for the first 7-10 days.
• Avoid shower water running directly over your face for the first 7-10 days.
• Avoid steamy baths & showers, saunas, steam rooms & swimming pools for the first 7-10 days.
• Avoid intense sweaty exercise for 7-10 days. Light, gentle exercising is okay after 3-4 days.
• Avoid direct sun exposure for 2 weeks.
✘ Don’t
• Touch, bite, peel or scratch your lips.
• Put lip liner, lipstick, lip gloss, cleansers, lotions (other than provided) on or close to your brows for 1-2 weeks to avoid irritation & cross contamination.
• Have facials or other face beauty treatments done for 1 week to avoid irritation & cross contamination.
• Have lip fillers or use sunbeds, chemical peels or any strong face treatment (near your lips) for 4 weeks as your skin will not be healed enough.
Long term
• Make sure you wear a daily SPF to protect your lips, and a higher one when on holiday.
• If sunbathing or using tanning beds, please keep your lips covered - UV exposure leads to faded, chalky lips.
• Do not use anti-aging creams, chemical peels, acids or retinols on or close to your lips ever!
LIP TATTOO CLEANING ROUTINE
Day of service:
• Gently cleanse your lips with a saline wipe whenever you notice any lymph fluid / plasma - this will look like little yellow / white bubbles.
• Throughout the day, continuously apply AfterInked balm whenever your lips feel dry.
• Before bed, give your lips a final wipe over.
Day 2 - 7:
• Morning and evening, gently cleanse your lips with a saline wipe.
• Whenever you eat or drink, make sure you aren't leaving any residue on your lips.
• Throughout the day, continuously apply AfterInked balm whenever your lips feel dry.
After the film has lifted:
• Your lips may stay dry for a few weeks but keeping them moisturised will reduce the feeling of them being tight / chapped / itchy / cracked.
• Gently cleanse your lips with a saline wipe whenever you notice any lymph fluid / plasma - this will look like little yellow / white bubbles.
• Throughout the day, continuously apply AfterInked balm whenever your lips feel dry.
• Before bed, give your lips a final wipe over.
Day 2 - 7:
• Morning and evening, gently cleanse your lips with a saline wipe.
• Whenever you eat or drink, make sure you aren't leaving any residue on your lips.
• Throughout the day, continuously apply AfterInked balm whenever your lips feel dry.
After the film has lifted:
• Your lips may stay dry for a few weeks but keeping them moisturised will reduce the feeling of them being tight / chapped / itchy / cracked.