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Tattoo Product Review: After Inked Tattoo Moisturizer & Aftercare Lotion | INKADEMIC
welcome back to academic everybody your
evidence-based source for all things
tattoos
body modifications and more i'm your
usual host the professor and on this
episode
we are doing another product review for
tattoo aftercare
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this time if you haven't guessed it by
now it's after inked
tattoo moisturizer and aftercare lotion
some mouthful now it's worth remembering
that while the product packaging says
tattoo moisturizer and aftercare
lotion this is just identified on the
website as a
quote daily moisturizing lotion
then again the directions on the website
include avoid unnecessary touching of
your new tattoo do not scrub or scratch
it
and other things which suggest that it
is supposed to be used for aftercare on
a new tattoo
the legal disclaimer is interesting
too anyway this
is being applied just a fully healed
skin so
keep that in mind for all the reviews on
this channel i try to review the same
qualities
for each product the list being the
ingredients
the scent the feel the greasiness
specifically the spf if any
the size of the product and the look of
it
after application and then of course
overall thoughts so
you can find timestamps for each one of
those in the areas in the description
below and of course as you come to
expect from this channel for full
transparency i was not
sent this product for review i purchased
it on my own
and i am not involved with or being
compensated or reimbursed by the company
in any way
so let's get started ingredients
this is vegan and cruelty free it uses
synthetic beeswax
and i'm mentioning this because a i made
a point to address it in the viking
revolution bomb video and check the
card there in the corner for a link to
that and b
i know this is a major sticking point
for a lot of people myself
included to a point if a company is
going to market their products as vegan
and cruelty free
i'd rather see them go overboard on that
attempt than
half asset so i appreciate that after
inc
sticks to their claims basically at
least i'm assuming
they do but that part of the legal
disclaimer means i guess we'll
put an asterisk by that ingredients
i guess because who knows
scent
okay here we go this smells like a
combination of
orange glow furniture polish and old
cardboard honestly the smell is
not pleasant beyond the orange and after
a while on your skin that orange scent
starts to go away and you're mostly just
left with a
stale smell
my wife tells me that the smell is
reminiscent of some high-end
moisturizers but that is
completely lost on me i mean i'm just
being honest here
it's not good
feel at first when you put this on it
feels like a normal
lotion but almost immediately after
applying it
it begins to feel kind of tacky
if that makes sense on my sleeve here on
alice which i keep shaved
my arm sticks to the table when i type
it sticks to the chair arm it makes it
feel almost
clammy even and keep in mind i'm in a
dry
environment too so take that for what
it's worth i guess
greasiness the hand that i use to apply
it
feels greasy but my arm just feels
tacky it's really strange
even hours after it was applied my skin
still feels
yeah tacky is the only way that i can
describe it by comparison my usual after
care lotion that i use which is just
straight up lubedurm
it doesn't feel that way after a while
what that means exactly i'm not entirely
sure
though i've no doubt that someone will
leave a comment and explain why that is
that it feels that way and i apologize
for my ignorance on this and two points
to whomever gets there first
spf none that i can see this won't
protect your skin from uv rays at
all now this is a bit of a double-edged
sword i wouldn't want to put any kind of
chemical sunscreen on a healing
fresh tattoo and if you watched my
tattoos versus the sun video you know
all about this but
i absolutely do want to put
broad spectrum sunscreens on a fully
healed
tattoo so the fact that this product
seems to be marketed as
both it makes me wish that it was two
different things one
for healing a fresh tattoo and one for
protecting healed work the latter
including an spf but it isn't so
onward we go size
this is a three ounce bottle it's 90
milliliters
pretty standard for a lotion size i
suppose if you're using the recommended
two to three times per day
i'm not sure how long that'll last but i
don't think it'll be for long
the look finally
the look after using it i don't think
you can tell that it's on at least not
on me maybe you're not supposed to
i don't know it's the whole thing is
just kind of confusing and your mileage
may vary on that just like everything
else
but without the other aspects of scent
and feel i'd never even know that i
applied it
overall i really wanted to like this
stuff
it's really popular you see it all over
the place but i just
don't of course this is just my opinion
and it very much relies on
skin type and personal preference but
with my singular experience with it for
this review
i don't like the feel of it it somehow
manages to be both greasy and tacky at
the same time
i don't like the smell because it just
smells stale
it's really hard to describe i don't
think it does
anything for my tattooed skin
so would i purchase it again no
i really kind of doubt that i'll even
finish using the amount that i did buy
so i hope that was helpful i mean have
you tried it have you had a different
experience
is there another product that you would
like to see a review of please just
leave me a comment below and let me know
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