![]() ![]() But compared to this recent one? Nothing. All the way down to the tips of my fingers, into the webbing and down the sides of my fingers. Only time I’ve ever considered numbing was this past one- my whole hand. I agree people don’t need to “earn” their tattoo with immense amounts of pain, but pain goes hand in hand with tattoos, and numbing just isn’t worth compromising your work or your clients health. This is a big reason.Īll in all, just do your research so no one is going into cardiac arrest. I’m not saying there’s no good options out there, but I personally avoid it for many reasons. They actually went into cardiac arrest and it was really scary. I did have a fellow artist who’s client (also another artist!) used numbing cream for a large back piece, and ended up hospitalized from lidocaine poisoning. On top of this, I’ve heard about numbing creams causing issues with healings things about the body “needing to be in pain to initiate a the healing process”, etc. At the very least, it relieves redness, lol. It’s a minimal amount of relief and doesn’t always last long, but it doesn’t change the skin in my experience & makes my clients more comfortable. However, I do use Bactine after the line-work on larger pieces. That was enough for me to stay away from it. This has resulted in tap-outs from clients who otherwise have set well for me. Wore off before we finished, then the client was in sudden pain resulting in a worse initial “shock”, making the client struggle with sitting well.Made the skin more difficult to work with.I got my doctorate in reproductive toxicology (□□), so looking up toxicity details for this was right up my alley, and I hope this helps ease fears/worries you might have about using Bactine because so far it's been a great addition to my tattooing routine! If you're worried about toxicity from using Bactine, toxicity from lidocaine poisoning is really hard to do without gross misuse of a very high lidocaine content product (~15% or up)! Definitely only do what you're comfortable with, but I looked into lidocaine poisoning since I had seen so much hesitation about it, and in terms of lidocaine content, for a regular person of average size it would require using literally the entire 5oz Bactine bottle and assuming 100% immediate uptake to reach the lower bound of lidocaine content in the blood that would result in systemic toxicity. I use bactine throughout my tattoos as soon as the lines are done! It basically operates as my green soap from then on out and I get emphatically positive feedback about it because you get to numb as you go, so my clients are in less pain and the tattoo generally turns out really well because they sat better! It's definitely a little more expensive, but well worth it imo :)
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