Hello everyone,

I am new here at have just recently got my first tattoo 80% done, 3 hours in. The outline and filling has been done on most of it. This is 5 days after it was done, the photos I mean. I just washed it and have been following the directions the tattoo place gave me. They are very well known in my area and have a good reputation. To me this just looks wrong, the black doesn’t look like its been filled properly at all. I can see a lot of lighter spots and no real rich blacks. Now I know that there is dead skin and scabbing happening here that will block off some of this, believe me I have been reading like crazy about all this… So that much I am expecting to see. Thing is that I can actually see the skin colour under and showing through all over the place. Almost like the ink was watered down or something like that. I am scheduled to go back at the end of April to complete the rest of the tattoo but am concerned that maybe he is doing something wrong?

Any advice from anyone would set my mind at ease… I know they look different in the beginning when healing, but should I see the skin colour showing through like this??

Pictures are posted in my profile