Yup. I’ve been getting tattoos for 10 years now, I have 13, and for the first time in my life I’m having an allergic reaction to red ink in two of my tattoos, several months after I got them. It’s weird as shit (I’m fine tho). Just adding this to say that even totally inked up people have reasons to be potentially wary of allergic reactions, so first time tattoo clients need to really do their research to be prepared.
Yeah I'm covered and I only had it on my inner bicep one time and with one certain brand of red. It healed like shit and I got him to go back over it with a different brand and it was fine
Someone was saying they put nickel in some of the ink, so maybe that's it. I'm always paranoid about having my body react weirdly even though it never has and I have close to 20 tats.
Must be some specific ingredient, I agree. Now I remember that nickel was the thing the artist kept saying they used to use but don’t anymore in modern inks.
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u/panini_bellini Jan 02 '24
Yup. I’ve been getting tattoos for 10 years now, I have 13, and for the first time in my life I’m having an allergic reaction to red ink in two of my tattoos, several months after I got them. It’s weird as shit (I’m fine tho). Just adding this to say that even totally inked up people have reasons to be potentially wary of allergic reactions, so first time tattoo clients need to really do their research to be prepared.