Tattoo Studios Editing and Proofreading Services

A client leaves a studio with a fresh tattoo and a printed sheet reading "keep clean and moisturised, avoid sun exposure." Four days later the tattoo is visibly inflamed, and the client cannot tell from that sheet whether this is the normal peeling and scabbing every fresh tattoo goes through, or a sign of infection that needs a doctor rather than more moisturiser. The aftercare sheet was written to cover the studio rather than to help someone who has never had a tattoo before recognise the difference between healing and something going wrong.

We edit what tattoo studios produce for aftercare and client safety — aftercare instruction sheets and their timeline, normal healing versus complication guidance, health history and consent disclosures, touch-up policy wording, and the correspondence responding to a client with a healing concern. Our editors work on the instructions a client relies on once they have left the studio and the artist is no longer there to look at it.

The staged healing description is what lets a client tell normal healing from a genuine problem, and its failure is a generic instruction that says what to do without describing what to actually expect. Keep clean and moisturised is an instruction; it does not tell a first-time client that days three to six typically involve visible peeling and itching that looks alarming and is not. We work through these so healing is described by stage with a rough timeframe, since a client checking their tattoo against a description of what day four normally looks like has something to compare against, and one checking against a single static instruction does not; so specific signs that mean stop and seek medical attention are named explicitly — spreading redness, fever, pus, increasing pain after day three rather than decreasing — because a client needs to know precisely what would be abnormal, not simply be told to watch for problems in general; so what is being applied and how much is specified precisely, given that "keep it moisturised" leads to both dangerously under-moisturised and counterproductively over-moisturised tattoos depending on how a client interprets one adjective; so sun and water exposure guidance states the actual timeframe and reasoning, rather than a blanket rule that a client forgets applies for weeks rather than days; so touch-up policy is stated with its own specific timeframe and any conditions, given that a client returning after the free touch-up window has closed needs to have known that in advance, not discovered it at the desk; and so a client messaging with a concern receives a specific assessment based on what they describe and, where relevant, a photograph, rather than a generic reassurance that healing varies. Instructions written this way help a client recognise a problem early enough for it to matter.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client information, health details and studio records. We are editors rather than tattoo artists or medical professionals, and we offer no view on healing, infection or treatment. What we can do is make sure the instructions describe what a client will actually see.