Various injuries, surgical intervention, burns - all these unpleasant circumstances are united by one — after them on body there are scars and hems. Often on visible sites that can worsen appearance and, as a result, lower self-assessment and confidence in own appeal.
Masking of scars
Today there is set of ways of fight against scars. It and so serious measures as plastic surgeries and injections and also laser grindings and use of external ointments, resorptional cicatricial fabric. However there is category of people wishing not simply to get rid of hateful shortcoming, but also to turn it into advantage, having made tattoo on scar. Interesting way, but it is necessary to know: not all hems and scars are suitable for the similar procedure.
Before making up the mind to such step as performance of tattoo on hem, precisely define type of the scar and consult with the expert.
Types of scars
Keloid hems represent some of the most rough and noticeable scars. They have dense surface, pink, brown or bluish color. First such scars cause pain, itch or feelings of tightness of skin. Keloid hems tend to continuous growth. Most often this type of scars meets on shoulders, breast, back or lobes of ears. Especially girls suffer from such scars.
If the doctor diagnosed for you keloid scar, refrain from drawing the resistant drawing. The procedure of tattoo can put additional damages that will significantly aggravate situatsiyunormotrofichesky hems - one of the easiest and hardly noticeable types of scars. They remain on body after insignificant injuries of skin. Such hems have light color, practically do not change relief of skin and can meet on any part of the body. Level of elasticity of fabrics of normotrofichesky hems differs from elasticity of healthy skin a little, and therefore at it it is possible to fill tattoos, it will be absolutely safe. Atrophic hems are the most widespread type of scars. Hems of this type remain on skin of the person after transferring of chicken pox, acne disease, solar or household burns, injuries or small surgical intervention. The atrophic hem, as a rule, has appearance of poles, roughnesses on the surface of skin, is followed by pigmentation violations. On similar scars the drawing tattoo is not forbidden in case its area is not too big. The fact is that skin on atrophic hem usually flabby, and it can spoil appearance of the drawing, and the tattoo should be reduced.
Doing tattoo for the first time, in particular for the purpose of masking of hem, try to pick up the small drawing of neutral coloring.
Hypertrophic hems appear on the place of strong injury of the upper layer of the skin. As a result of mending, the updated fabrics expand that strongly ennobles scar over the surface of skin. Hems of this type have pink or light-red, brown color is more rare. Also hypertrophic hems can cause the naggers pain or burning sensation. In certain cases drawing tattoo on this type of scars is allowed, however it is necessary to remember that it will strongly absorb the painting pigment, and the thicket of usual should update such drawing.