Lower leg tattoo healing

Does anyone else experience the most brutal healing with tattoos below the knee- and particularly on the sides of the legs? These ones just kill me and usually end up in a losing battle with infection. Of the last 3, two were fully infected and the other was an ordeal but healed fine in the end after battling through. If anyone else has similar, how do you manage it? Seems like this part of my body just succumbs every time.