October 1, 2011 at 7:49 pm #37722
Crustlust
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Hi everyone! 😉

I am thinking of doing a whole black/white,good/evil etc. thing and want a katana with a white hilt and possibly sheath running down my side. Now I’m wondering if there is any good color that can substitute white well without looking like crap? I mean on a larger scale and not for shadows or contours and such.

All large scale white tattoos I’ve seen have looked like crap, faded or have a strange nasty color to them. So is there something else that can work besides leaving it blank (skin color) or should i just give up on a whiteish large scale tattoo? :p

October 1, 2011 at 8:43 pm #113536
ArniVidar
Moderator
@arnividar

Definitely don’t leave it skin color. I think you should find a different material than ivory or whatever is white that you chose for the handle. What about Jade, or maybe even a blue’ish metal handle or something?

October 1, 2011 at 10:46 pm #113546
Wardy
Participant
@wardy

My skull is color’d in white, let’s just say it doesn’t stay white for long.

October 2, 2011 at 2:13 am #113557
DavidJednat
Participant
@davidjednat

There are ways to make natural skin appear to look white using cool colors and warm colors in strategic places in your tattoo. A good artist can make it happen.

October 2, 2011 at 2:15 am #113558
ArniVidar
Moderator
@arnividar
DavidJednat;98255 wrote:
There are ways to make natural skin appear to look white using cool colors and warm colors in strategic places in your tattoo. A good artist can make it happen.

Surely that would depend entirely on the person’s skin tone. A darker-than-average Caucasian will never have white skin, no matter how much contrasting material you surround it with 🙂

October 2, 2011 at 2:51 am #113560
Amok
Participant
@amok

If you look at my rabbit tattoo in my album, the artist said he used blue to get the white rabbit fur, not white ink. Must be a combo of colors as David said without actually using white. But I have pasty white skin 🙂

June 20, 2013 at 4:26 pm #140987
udep555
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@udep555

Dude with out white color i think tattoos are not too much attractive and specially skin color.Tattoos are attractive to when they make with the shining color..I really like these tattoos…

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