Beautiful colors 🔥💯🔥

Wow 🤩 🤯

“Fine line” is a stretch here.

Wow, I really dig this. I don't think I've ever seen something quite like it!

Excellent!

A sketch tattoo that looks good.

Love this so much! Great job! ☺️

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It looks like you got this tattoo when the book was originally released.

It’s going to be unreadable and unrecognizable (almost already at that point) within 1-2 years if your tan is anything to go by as far as sun exposure.

This is a brand new tattoo in your photo? Your artist didn’t go deep enough at all, it looks like it’s 20 years old. I’d suggest going to someone else to get the correct contrast so your tattoo pops like it should. The good news is that any competent artist can easily fix this!

It’s a no from me, dawg. I’m sorry. It’s way too light and what is there is wonky.

Why is it so light?

It’s…very light work. You need to be super diligent with sunscreen or the detail will disappear quickly - even then.

I recommend punching up the line work if possible I just don’t see this lasting.

Tattooing =/= painting.

With paint you’re just adding a new layer which completely covers and encapsulates whatever was underneath.

Tattooing is injecting ink into a layer of skin underneath the top layer.

So when you apply ink over an existing tattoo it doesn’t go over it, it mixes with the old ink at the same layer of skin. So going over black ink with a peach, tan or brown will lighten up the black a bit but never completely cover it.

This is why successful coverups are always taking a lighter tattoo and making it darker.

See old posts on the same topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TattooDesigns/s/REAgsVQagL

It’s not a great idea, and there are multiple reasons for this. 

1. The ink sits underneath the skin, so whatever you’re color matching, you’ll have to take that into account. Think about the skin as a piece of transparent film that will cover the tattoo. That’s why white doesn’t stay white usually. The white sits underneath the layer of skin, so the skin basically tones whatever is tattooed. Also, finding a perfect match would be very difficult to do in the first place, and if you do end up finding a near perfect match, and get into the skin, if you’re using it for like, a cover up of something else, whatever is underneath will muddy the “flesh tone” as well. Which you would have to color correct for. So hypothetically you want to cover a tiny heart, solid black. It’s old and looks kind of light. You color match based on the skin right up to the heart. You tattoo the heart with the skin tone. Not only would your actual skin end up changing the color slightly, but the heart would also affect the color, you would end up with a grey heart. It wouldn’t look good. 

2. Tattoo pigments change in the skin. You put something in the skin one day and it looks like a certain color or tone, and over time it will change. Some colors “disappear” faster than others, and some will essentially change due to what the base of the color is, and how each person individually heals. A great example of this is when black, used to turn blue over time. Like, VERY blue. Obviously our ink quality is much better and this happens to a lesser extent, but it still happens. So whatever color you end up using, won’t reliably stay that exact color, which also brings me to …

3. Our skin tone changes. Regardless of specific skin tone, its changes often. Gets darker in the summer, lighter in the winter, we blush and flush and it just changes constantly. Maybe not noticeable day to day, but if, hypothetically you have medium tan skin, you tan easily and you tattoo some skin tone in the winter, and you color matching your skin tone PERFECTLY, and you’re not using it to cover anything, it’s best case scenario for you to tattoo your skin with the pigment, so you do so. Half way through summer and now you have an off, flat, slightly lighter patch of pigment. Not ideal. That actually brings me to another reason it’s not a good idea….

4. Skin is translucent. It’s not a flat color. There’s tons of depth and variation from cubic inch to cubic inch. We can see a lot of what’s underneath even if we don’t necessarily think about it that way. Veins, freckles, etc. can make color matching for one small spot even, very difficult. 

5. Lighting would have to be very carefully considered as well. How many of you have put on makeup somewhere, a bathroom, or a bedroom, and everything looks great. You step outside and realize the color match was waaaaayyyy off. Now you look like a ghost or an Oompa Loompa lol.

*now, full disclaimer. SOME artists do this. Some people have better luck with this than others. Some people will use many layers of white to cover things. People will always “break” the rules with their own discretion and I am NOT hating on that or saying that this CANNOT be done relatively successfully. It just isn’t reliable. If it is done, it should be used as more of a last resort and with someone who has a lot of experience with this. Make sure you’ve seen healed work of this kind, preferably many years old. 

Also, I’m sure there is a better way to get these ideas across, but in writing this on my phone on my lunch break and may have not only missed a few things, but I definitely could have worded all of this better. So my apologies in advance. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGggU-Cxhv0

This video explains how the ink stays in the skin, that's why you have to add HEAPS of another ink to lighten it up. (It also wont look like you're skin, it will look like a big area of skin colour since there are no blemishes)

Think of paint in art class, if you add 10ml of Black Paint into 100ml of White Paint it will make it darker. If you added 10L of white paint into the grey you have it will become (practically) white. But, if you add the same amount of White Paint as the Black Paint initially it wont change enough to become that white you had before.

It’s more like how watercolors work. Get some watercolors and watercolor paper, and you’ll have a paper that can absorb some amount of ink.

Put black watercolor paint down with very little water, so you can make your very detailed tattoo. Let it completely dry. Now try and cover that up with anything lighter, and you’ll notice that the paper won’t take almost any pigment on top of the dried “permanent” black ink. At best you might lighten it, and maybe you can try several layers, but at best it might just spread and bleed and look worse.

Because once it heals it will just mix with the existing color underneath

Metal AF 🤘

SIIIIIICK!

This is so unique; I love this

so sick

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minho looks so adorable

minho n the kids

Source 1 2 3 4

Sassy❣️

The artist really captured your cat with that tattoo.

So cute! I have some pieces by Austin, such a cool shop!

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Could the photo be a little darker ? I can almost see the tattoo