When you pay for a tattoo with your money, blood, sweat and flesh anything less than this and you’re only selling yourself short. The advice from any decent tattooer to a person thinking of getting tattooed should be along the lines of “do your homework, choose the right person for the job and then trust them and your decision.” The aim of a tattoo should not be to get the quickest or the cheapest result but rather the highest quality possible. The black is patchy, the design poor, the fit on the body clumsy.
It doesn’t matter if a tattooer can black your entire arm out in 2 sessions but the end result looks rushed and of poor quality, is that what you want your tattoo to say about you? Whenever somebody shows me a tattoo and says it was done in a short space of time it almost always looks exactly like it was done that way. It’s frustrating to see and hear these stories where people who were not happy with their old tattoo end up with something they’re even less satisfied with after trying to get it rectified. I have seen a huge increase in the number of people reaching out to me and also getting tattooed by me that have had a botched blackout attempt, or blastovers where the design is unsuitable and often undesirable. Unfortunately, what this also brings with it is people looking to cash in on the back of its success. I guess this is in part due to Instagram and the fact that blackwork tattoos provide good visual content. It has been great in recent years to see the appreciation blackwork tattooing has received and how people are pushing the creative envelope. A half sleeve/chest coverup which was extended to create a minimal 3/4 sleeve design. This approach is a really important aspect of tattooing for me, as it ensures that the work I create has longevity for my clients and also provides motivation for me, to keep me giving all that I have to this craft.
Helping them bring balance to their body and harmony to their mind.
Black out tattoo skin#
It’s never been about just putting pictures on the skin or forcing my vision on people, because of this I have always been willing to work with people on a “Blackout tattoo”, “Blastover” or “Cover-up”. I was drawn to tattooing from the human element, to facilitate people in creating a vision they had for themselves. As people age and mature their beliefs, desires, tastes and identity evolve, which can sometimes mean that previous ink in their skin no longer resonate with who they are, causing some internal conflict. We are a product of both our nature and our nurture. We do not have a fixed, genetically coded identity but rather a much more fluid one which is shaped by our experiences and environment. Just different, just as the person being asked is a different person. Neither one is right or wrong, neither one being better or worse. If you were asked this at 16 years of age it would hopefully be a very different answer to if you were asked at 36 years of age. A technically successful cover-up, but also a conceptually successful half bodysuit now in progress.
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