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Willverine

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Hello all.
I'm new to this site and I'm taking the EMC 100 course at my Junior College with the intention to do whatever is needed to be an EMT.
I went to Santa Rosa Uniform on College Ave. and along with getting my "gear" together I found they had some really cool tattoo cover up products. I have a huge forearm tattoo and so this was good news for me when I wanted to wear short sleeve shirts. There's various colors on the online site, but at the store they have skin tone, black, and I think Navy Blue. Different sizes as well. I bought the one that goes from my wrist to right below elbow. Not uncomfortable and stays put. tat2x. I was thinking of getting the full sleeve one just so that it looks like an under armour undershirt / more professional and not just like a partly covered part of my arm. My Instructor told me either skin tone or Navy Blue, but I'm thinking skin tone won't stand out as much.
What do you think? Full sleeve or half sleeve if only a tattoo on forearm and skin tone or navy blue? Thanks.
 
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Just don't buy any over the counter tattoo removers like "Tat-Off". One specimen turned out to be sulphuric acid.
 
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Willverine said:
Hello all.
I'm new to this site and I'm taking the EMC 100 course at my Junior College with the intention to do whatever is needed to be an EMT.
I went to Santa Rosa Uniform on College Ave. and along with getting my "gear" together I found they had some really cool tattoo cover up products. I have a huge forearm tattoo and so this was good news for me when I wanted to wear short sleeve shirts. There's various colors on the online site, but at the store they have skin tone, black, and I think Navy Blue. Different sizes as well. I bought the one that goes from my wrist to right below elbow. Not uncomfortable and stays put. tat2x. I was thinking of getting the full sleeve one just so that it looks like an under armour undershirt / more professional and not just like a partly covered part of my arm. My Instructor told me either skin tone or Navy Blue, but I'm thinking skin tone won't stand out as much.
What do you think? Full sleeve or half sleeve if only a tattoo on forearm and skin tone or navy blue? Thanks.
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Skin tone on one arm will look funny (skin tone is rarely even close to skin tone), skin tone on both arms might also look funny, navy on one arm will look funny. I would go with navy on both arms so it looks like a long sleeve shirt under your uniform shirt. I see that a lot so it shouldn't look odd. It might be cheaper to just get a long sleeve under armor shirt though.
 
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Willverine

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well my instructor said Navy Blue or Skin Tone and the skin tone one I already got isn't that off my tone, which is kind tan, minus the arm hair of course. The only thing is.. if you see something like that you know someone is most likely covering a tattoo up, but that's fine as long as it's covered up.. right? I would think so. Rules and regulations, right? Tattoos not to be seen, then cover them up, but does it need to really look even? Like put another cover up sleeve on other arm, even when no tattoos, just so as to look even? I've seen a few nurses who wear one sleeve, but usually people were both or a long sleeve undershirt. The benefit of the sleeves without an undershirt is not being so hot from wearing an undershirt. Thoughts?
 
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I think any cover up is going to be agency specific. My job with county states that arm tattoos can be no bigger than 25% of the exposed skin area, if you are over the 25% the only option is a long sleeve uniform shirt. The tattoo cover up sleeves, or a long sleeve tee under a short sleeve shirt would never fly. I have seen other agencies though that allow full sleeves as long as it is not vulgar, racist, pornographic, etc.
 
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Agree with phideux. My FT dept doesn't require any cover up. We have a few guys walking around with full sleeves.
 
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Just curious, is it a school requirement that they are covered? It's getting less and less common for employers to make you cover them
 
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I'd say for the SRJC program just get yourself an underarmor long sleeve. I got an underarmor long sleeve that was one of those sports material ones. They keep you dry an what not. I'd recommend that for the course and then when you get hire you're company will have their own tattoo policies. I worked for Protransport-1 and their "official" policy was No visible tattoos. But then you get out to the stations and the managers don't really care. It's a don't get caught thing. My current employer, an actual 911 job, doesn't care at all.

Good luck. Santa Rosa is a great CC. I did med term last summer and currently going to the Petaluma campus for chem,psych,and a math class. Prepping for Medic school.
 
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