A Different Stroke recommends washing piercings with anti-bacterial soap and Body Art recommends Bactine. Each place advises not to play with piercings in the beginning. Body Art and A Different Stroke each recommend washing mouth piercings with anti-bacterial mouthwash. Sheehey also recommends that students keep their skin moisturized. The three studios also go over the healing process and ways to help it along thoroughly with each piercing and tattoo client.
Tattoos can be just about any image.
Ask the studio if they use a disposable needle and a new container of ink. Also make sure the artist is wearing latex gloves to ensure not to run the risk of getting a blood-born disease. However, Sheehey says that most of the complications they see are from piercings. We have seen no complications from tattoos. We would expect to see infection or bleeding and we don't.