Fortunately, infected tattoos are treatable. Below, dermatologists and plastic surgeons share how to care for your skin after getting a tattoo, how to tell if your tattoo is infected, and what to ...

You can also get an infection while your skin is healing after you get a tattoo. Most often, tattoo infections are bacterial skin infections like staphylococcus. You pick them up from unsterile ...

Proper aftercare in the first few weeks after getting a tattoo can help prevent an infection and keep the tattoo looking good. Tattoo aftercare starts in the tattoo shop. Once the tattoo is done ...

and customers to stop using and selling two popular Sacred Tattoo Ink products after testing revealed they were contaminated with harmful bacteria that could cause serious skin infections, federal ...

Thankfully, the infection did eventually clear up after about four days in hospital. 'Luckily the antibiotics started working,' she said. 'Now, my tattoo looks all scabbed, crusted and black.

But unless it’s infected, they advise skipping the ... Dermatologists say that patients who consult them after getting a tattoo commonly do so because they develop an allergy to the ink ...

A mom of five said she was hospitalized — and told she might need her leg amputated — after a tattoo gave her a severe cellulitis infection. Liverpool, England, resident Kirsty Griffiths ...

A tattoo artist has warned anyone wanting to get inked to not do this one thing after client came in with an infection, having ignored his advice. Jamie Lo is a Dublin-based tattoo artist who's ...

A tattoo artist has issued a stark warning to ink enthusiasts after a client returned with an infection, having neglected his guidance. Dublin-based tattooist Jamie Lo, who boasts over two million ...