Hi Dave
Welcome to the forum. sounds like you have plenty of experience and will be valuable in the removal section. thanks for being upfront about the self promotion bit and feel free to keep your sig link in place but please keep any direct links to a minimum unless asked . You are free to link to your tattoo directory listing at any point.…[Read more]

Looks nice.
Man I hate the word tat it sounds like something you would get in a trailer park.

The bruising is obvious
But the rest
Dar she blows

Working with your tattooist is always important, They should listen to what you want and you should listen to their advice as they should know what will and wont work and the limit of their abilities. What you want is far beyond your tattooists abilities and he is very lazy he spent most of the time on the face of the compass and then quickly…[Read more]

You will need to get that lasered and then covered.
The above tattoo is a very well done tattoo while yours looks like it was done by the first available tattooist. A refund is highly unlikely unless the tattooist misrepresented himself. Did you look at their portfolio? was there anything in their portfolio that lead you to believe that they…[Read more]

hey. you should be able to see the visual editor on mobile. the last icon is where you upload images. or just go to your gallery http://www.thetattooforum.com/members/me/albums/%5B/url%5D and add an image there. its simple to embed after that.

It was quite early days when you took the picture. How’s it looking now?

I don’t see a problem with mixed styles. They can still compliment each other, or form a contrast if you prefer.

I think it looks good too. I also understand what you want to do as I was the same with mine. I just went with a smoke effect…

White can go over black in some cases but its not always great.
It might be worth going to your artist and letting them know your thoughts. see if they ahve any ideas.
In this case its the font that caused the issue really. it looks very closely written and with that font used its now not visible from a distance.
The other optioin is to rework the…[Read more]

Could you post up a picture of how it looks now?

Have you thought about using smoke or clouds as a background or filler?

Do you have a link to the picture? Sometimes the person’s body position can alter the perspective…

Fantastic!

Another view showing more of the anchor

Thanks!

I can’t remember how to do this. Please can someone remind me how to put a picture into. New post?

Thanks.