Healing question- smearing.

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Ajen95
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Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:32 pm

I got my first tattoo three days ago. I've been gently washing it with dial soap three times a day, and rubbing a thin layer of aquaphor into it after each time, plus whenever it feels like it's getting dry. It's a tiny tattoo on the inside of my wrist of a tree. The tops portion of the tree (nearest my hand) seems to be smearing or bleeding color. It was not like this after I got the tattoo or the remainder of that day. Is this normal?

Here's what it looks like now (I know the lighting sucks a little bit)
https://imageshack.com/i/pnLIYMOjj

And here's what it looked like immediately after getting it (in case that matters)
https://imageshack.com/i/pnJjKHgoj
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buttwheat
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Sun Apr 30, 2017 11:32 pm

Looks like pretty normal healing. BTW you can't smear a tattoo
Ajen95
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Mon May 01, 2017 12:21 am

buttwheat wrote:Looks like pretty normal healing. BTW you can't smear a tattoo
Haha I know you can't actually *smear* it but I made myself paranoid about blowouts, and I didn't want to call it that since I have no idea. That was the best word I could come up with. Thank you!
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