Tattoo Maintenence?

as most of these other answers suggested, you don't want to cover your tattoo unless ABSOLUTELY nessesary. if you have to dress up or something and wear shoes, then it's best to cover it, but you really don't want to wear shoes for atleast a week. if it's off to the side like it sounds like it is, then wearing flip flops shouldn't rub on it. if it's hard, you just want to make sure it's moisturized and clean that way it won't scab. the bandage most likely had ink from the tattoo on it. it's normal for this to happen the first few days of healing, but if it's kept clean, this shouldn't happen for more then a couple of days. you probably didn't ruin your tattoo, yellow, regardless of where you get tattooed, doesn't always stay, depending on your skin type, etc. but especially on the foot. foot tattoos have a tendency to have colour fallout, this is normal. and if it's so close to your toe, especially your pinky toe, then that increases chance of fallout. just keep taking care of it, keep it clean, use the a+d ointment until it starts to flake, usually 3-5 days, then use unscented lotion on it. let it heal completely then wait atleast another 2 weeks after that to get it touched up. reason being, even if a tattoo looks healed on the outside, you don't know what's going on underneath, it might still need a little more time and going back into an unhealed tattoo with a needle is not a good thing. it can still be saved, but if once it's healed it looks like it really needs a touchup, go back to your artist and just try and be more careful with it. not saying you're doing anything wrong with it, you just want to let it breathe, it will heal much better. hope this helps.