Hey guys, maybe you can help me.
I have a fairly colorful half sleeve from my wrist to forearm, a lot of blues, green, and a bit of black. I’ll try and get a pic uploaded soon. The design was supposed to be based on a graffiti piece, but to be honest the tattoo artist made a shite out of it, not true to the original piece at all. Had it for a good few years now, I’ve been looking at cover-up options but a lot of people have said it would be incredibly difficult to cover and look good.
My question for you guys, is it possible to simply ‘black it out’ with a solid black half sleeve? I was thinking I could just add a bit of design to the top and bottom parts, and black out everything in between.
Cheers for the input.
I’ve been getting mixed reports on whether or not lasering would do me any good, I’ve been told that its such a large area laser would just create a lot of scar tissue making a cover up impossible.
Its hard to describe without you seeing the sleeve as it is, but essentially I was thinking of adding a celtic band around my wrist at the bottom, below where the sleeve starts.. then cover up with solid black sleeve up to my elbow, then a cetic band at the top just above the elbow area. It would be fairly unusual, but tbh I think I’d prefer it to whats there right now.
Cornish is right a professional laser removal specialist will be able to lighten the ink to allow a cover up with no to very minimal scarring.
Scarring tends to occur when the setting is too high, not enough time between sessions, or wrong type of laser being used on the pigment.
Black banding is a big decision and should be considered carefully as once on it is pretty much impossible to shift.
Can your orig tattoo be reworked?
Pics will help.
Take care
Matthew
Cheers for all the advice guys, got a pic uploaded just now… http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/35/tatrz.jpg
You’ve definitely given me something to think about with lasering, I had pretty much ruled that out till now because the scarring issue. I’ve been told that covering it up as it is would be pretty difficult, near impossible even. A couple of artists suggested they could add some deeper colours, improve it that way, but that it would essentially be the same. Let me know what you guys think.
Appreciate it.
The pics are a bit blurry, so the detail is hard to get a grasp on. But, that being said, I’ve seen a hell of a lot worse than that. I think black cover up is a the worst choice. I would look into having a good artist maybe re-work it a bit, maybe try to sharpen it up? Do you have the original reference piece to go by still?
If that’s not a viable option, or you are just done with it one way or another, you should at least look at laser removal and a cover up. A black sleeve should be like a death bed option. From what I see, you aren’t there. It’s not an easy (or cheap) option, but you are going to get one chance to get this fixed right. I’d make it count if it were me…
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