I go with the ten year rule. Ten years ago, what would you have gotten a tattoo of? Is it the same thing you'd get a tattoo of today? If so, then it's probably okay to get that tattoo.
I go with the ten year rule. Ten years ago, what would you have gotten a tattoo of? Is it the same thing you'd get a tattoo of today? If so, then it's probably okay to get that tattoo.
I go with the ten year rule. Ten years ago, what would you have gotten a tattoo of? Is it the same thing you'd get a tattoo of today? If so, then it's probably okay to get that tattoo.
That's a smart rule, lol! I never really thought about it, since I haven't had mine for quite 10 years yet, but I CAN say today that I would definitely get my sturgeon again... the other, eh. Prolly not. But nice to know I'm not totally alone in having some tattoo that you're not thrilled about...
Speaking of... and he'd kill me if he found out I was saying this, but my fiance has a piece of work on his back... I like to summarize his back tattoo by saying, "It's like... you walked in to the tattoo shop and said, "I REALLY love that scene in the Neverending Story where they're trying to get through the gates that look like woman sphinxes, but I ALSO really want them to be nude." Seriously. It's a pair of nude laides facing each other, one like devil horns and a spear, the other like... nice hair and boots. It's RIDICULOUS. and it's just Line-Art, so thankfully it's not a full back piece. He's definitely wanting to get that removed... lol. I like to color it in on his back with those smelly fruit markers...
Ooh I love wrist tattoos though, especially writing on wrists. Here is mine:
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That was when the stick and the writing were just done, hence the slightly wrinkled look.
I will now stop hogging your thread :bolt:
The thing I would say about hands is there's probably a similar problem to foot tattoos, in that you use and wash your hands all the time, so you're more likely to get blurring/fading issues.
The thing I would say about hands is there's probably a similar problem to foot tattoos, in that you use and wash your hands all the time, so you're more likely to get blurring/fading issues.
That is absolutely correct. If you get some intricate lettering on your fingers, any lettering, really, it will start to fade within a year. In three years, it will look like utter crap. This is partly because you move your hands and fingers a lot, and because the skin on your fingers isn't as thick as it is elsewhere on your body. It also increase the chance of a 'blow out'. A blow out happens when the ink is inked too deep into the skin, the tattoo area gets aggravated before it heals, and it causes the ink to either bleed from the lines, or blur. There are varying degrees of blow outs, some will be a little tiny bit of bleed, and in the worst cases, it will be a mess. Google tattoo blow out if you're curious.
A really good tattoo artist is going to occasionally have a flub and ink too deep, happens. Usually not a cause for concern, but if the ink was put too deep on a part of the body that sees a lot of movement or pressure, it can really exaggerate the chance of a blow out. When you're inked too deep, it's not a 100% chance for a blow out, either, and after it fully heals, there's no more chance of a blow out. If it's a tattoo on your forearm, shoulder, bicep, a part of your body that stays mostly inert, and the tattoo artist inked too deep, it'll be fine. But, if the artist inked too deep, the more you move the area where the tattoo is, the bigger the chance for a blow out.
Tattoo artists are iffy about things like finger tattoos for all of these reasons, as well they should be. They don't need someone who didn't do their research coming back and saying 'look what happened!'.
I have some tattoos :) I have 3.5 on my back and 2 on my legs. My first tattoo I got was in my final year of high school in 2011:
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This is going to be a full upper-back tattoo of the first 6 pokemon i ever had on my team when I was younger. There is also half a bulbasaur on my back that I need to get finished:
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The thing I would say about hands is there's probably a similar problem to foot tattoos, in that you use and wash your hands all the time, so you're more likely to get blurring/fading issues.
That is absolutely correct. If you get some intricate lettering on your fingers, any lettering, really, it will start to fade within a year. In three years, it will look like utter crap. This is partly because you move your hands and fingers a lot, and because the skin on your fingers isn't as thick as it is elsewhere on your body. It also increase the chance of a 'blow out'. A blow out happens when the ink is inked too deep into the skin, the tattoo area gets aggravated before it heals, and it causes the ink to either bleed from the lines, or blur. There are varying degrees of blow outs, some will be a little tiny bit of bleed, and in the worst cases, it will be a mess. Google tattoo blow out if you're curious.
A really good tattoo artist is going to occasionally have a flub and ink too deep, happens. Usually not a cause for concern, but if the ink was put too deep on a part of the body that sees a lot of movement or pressure, it can really exaggerate the chance of a blow out. When you're inked too deep, it's not a 100% chance for a blow out, either, and after it fully heals, there's no more chance of a blow out. If it's a tattoo on your forearm, shoulder, bicep, a part of your body that stays mostly inert, and the tattoo artist inked too deep, it'll be fine. But, if the artist inked too deep, the more you move the area where the tattoo is, the bigger the chance for a blow out.
Tattoo artists are iffy about things like finger tattoos for all of these reasons, as well they should be. They don't need someone who didn't do their research coming back and saying 'look what happened!'.
I've read a lot about finger and hand tattoos becoming faded and all of the reasons behind it but I hadn't heard of a tattoo blow out before. Thank you for the warning! For the finger tattoos, I've seen a lot of really nice looking ones and read about people that got them a long time ago and how they still look nice. I also read that with finger tattoos, you should get them touched up two or three times to lessen the chance of them fading. Does that really help?
i love your "mirror, mirror" tattoo so much. there's a very similar reason why i have a tattoo of a woman embroidering on herself called "la masochiste."
literally: the feminine masochist.
(one who harms oneself)
literally: the feminine masochist.
(one who harms oneself)