I gotta agree with Ironhead on the choice of oitments.......alot of these people may or may not have tatoos or sound tatoo advice, no offense intended everyone, but I have two sleeves, tats on my front and back and my back calf area. Most tattoo artist will tell u that u shouldn't use any petroleum based ointments or oils on your tattoo and only use a very thin layer certain ointments (vaseline or neosporin) have been know to fade the true potential of your tattoos color. Thats the reason! Now u say you got it on ur back calf area? Nice I got a tribal smoke scene with a skull in the mist of it in the same area, u may experience some pains during healing with walking, sorry but if you get it it may not go away til your tattoo peels! But don't worry it'll be ok and worth it in the end! The more u get tats the less they will hurt as u go!