Dr. Tran Ngoc Anh – Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital said that it is really hard to accept lip tattooing for 5-year-old children just to have pink lips. The act of lip tattooing has many potential risks to the health of the baby.
Recently, netizens stirred a story about a 5-year-old girl whose parents gave her cosmetic collagen tattoo spray.
Accordingly, the owner of a Facebook account shared: “The 5-year-old child, if you look and get motivated, look at me whoever is afraid of pain”.
The post made netizens angry because spraying tattoos is a beauty method that should only be used for adults. According to information from social networks, the incident happened from March 2021.
On February 21, 2021, the person who directly sprayed her with tattoos was her biological father – who is running a salon business.
The girl’s father explained about the baby’s lip tattoo: “Nowadays, most of the students who go to school like to use lipstick that is prone to lead, which is very harmful in the future, so ST has made lips for girls to be safer for girls. “.
The parents of the 5-year-old baby, known as the owner of the salon, shared a status: “The 5-year-old child, if you look at it, get the motivation, the girl who is afraid of pain, look at me”.
Assessing the issue of lip tattoo for 5-year-old children is causing a stir recently, Dr. Tran Ngoc Anh – Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital informed by Dan Viet newspaper that it is really difficult to accept lip tattooing. for 5-year-olds just to have pink lips.
The act of lip tattooing for a 5-year-old baby has a lot of potential risks affecting the health of the baby because at that age, children are having many changes.
According to Dr. Anh, for medical aesthetics, there is no age limit because there are cases where the baby has a birthmark or has a problem that requires intervention and must be appointed by a specialist. And the act of bringing such a baby out for cosmetic purposes is not good.
Lip tattooing is a method to help improve dark lips, pale lips, make lips more rosy, sexy, shorten makeup time, but this is a method that contains many risks and possible complications. happening.
According to doctors, compared with tattooing in other areas of the body (eyebrow tattooing, eyelid tattooing …), the complication rate of lip tattooing is more common. For tattooing each month at the hospital receiving examination and treatment for about 1-2 complications.
In particular, not only the complication rate is higher, many cases of lip tattooing have serious complications that are difficult to treat such as: infection at the tattoo site, causing swelling, redness, bleeding, pimples, self-pus. , inflammation increases pigmentation causing darker lips or damaged tattoos causing deviation, bad scars permanently on the lips …
There have been many cases of complications after lip tattooing. Illustration.
Lip tattoo, lip spray are two methods of bringing tattoo ink into the skin or mucous layer, depending on the depth that can be called different tattooing or spraying.
Lip spray is a technique using a tattoo sprayer with a micro-needle tip, inside with an ink bulb that impacts the lips with a depth of no more than 0.2 mm, bringing tattoo ink into the epidermis of the skin, time Less resting, less swollen lips, but poor color fastness.
Lip tattoo is the technique of using a needle to pierce the horny layer, then apply tattoo ink evenly or dip the needle in the ink first and then apply it to the skin to bring the tattoo ink into the deep layer of the skin, possibly through the bottom layer to the dermis.
With the depth of action on the lips, the lip tattoo technique helps to make the color more durable, but there is a potential risk of complications, often causing damage to the mucous layer so tattooing can cause bleeding. After the tattoo, the lips are swollen and large, possibly causing infection.
In cases of tattoo ink of unknown origin, the implementation process is not sterile, the performers are not sure about the expertise, both lip spray and lip tattoo are potentially dangerous.
MSc. Tran Nguyen Anh Tu – Deputy Head of Department of Aesthetic Skin, Ho Chi Minh City Da Lieu Hospital emphasized in the health and life newspaper that lip tattooing hides a lot of risk of complications. Firstly, there is the risk of infections, viral infections such as hepatitis B, C, HIV… if the operator does not ensure the environment and sterile techniques.
Next is the use of poor quality tattoo ink, cheap can cause severe allergic reactions at the tattoo site such as swelling, red skin, blisters …
In the case of using a good tattoo ink, it is impossible to completely rule out an allergic reaction to tattoo ink, especially red tattoo color. Finally, the care after performing the tattooing technique is also very important, in most cases there are complications because the place where the tattooing technique does not advise or advise on the wrong way of taking care of the tattoo.
MSc.BS Tran Nguyen Anh Tu – Deputy Head of Department of Aesthetic Skin, Ho Chi Minh City Da Lieu Hospital recommends, in fact, women’s beauty needs are justified, for safe beauty, women Priority should be given to choosing a solution to use lipstick.
Using lipstick is also more fashionable because it can change quickly with trends.
In the event that women still want to choose the lip tattoo method, they should carefully research, choose reputable facilities, ensure sterile equipment and procedures. If a lip tattoo accident occurs, it is advisable to go to the hospital as soon as possible, to avoid mistreating it, causing the injury as badly as possible, and recovering more difficult.
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