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Can one change his or her tattoo design via cover up every few years?

Yes I know its best to get a tattoo that you will love the rest of your life and not get it covered up (modified) but still, I am curious that is all.

Thank you!!!!

2007-04-05 05:34:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style Skin & Body Tattoos

12 answers

better off not changing your design with a cover up more than twice

anymore than that and your colours will go funny e.g reds will become faded pink

2007-04-05 06:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by sex machine 4 · 0 0

If you're lucky you'll only have to cover up a tattoo once and then you'll be happy with it.

But like with any coverup it depends on the work to be covered. I think two or three cover-ups would probably be the most that can be done because you figure after that the designs and colors are larger and darker to account for the old tattoo and you'd be very limited on covering it. And at that point, you might as well just stay away from the ink and keep it covered.

2007-04-05 06:44:32 · answer #2 · answered by 4eyed zombie 6 · 0 0

I think this is an interesting question. If you start out with somthing pretty small, get it a bit bigger, then want a full design a few years later.... how many times can they cover up something with out the tattoo under it bleeding thru? You usually only hear of someone getting one tattoo covered.... Just wonder if it would reach a point that it might not take the ink anymore? Hmmm.... interesting

2007-04-05 08:58:55 · answer #3 · answered by Tatts 3 · 0 0

I've never heard of anyone having more than one cover-up done. Coverups really don't "coverup"...they only modify the existing tattoo into the newer tattoo. Coverups have to be much larger than the original tattoo. Too many cover-ups would just make it a big blob.

2007-04-05 05:41:11 · answer #4 · answered by Cheryl 3 · 0 0

No you can not continue to get a tattoo covered up every couple years. Too much ink will be in that one spot on your skin and begin to get too dark. The only way it'll work is if you get a tattoo that's substantially bigger each time with a big enough area of flat color to blend the old one in

2007-04-05 05:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by Gormy 2 · 0 0

It's an interesting mathematical conundrum... like how many times you can fold a piece of paper in half, or something. Clearly it would depend on the size, shape and design of the original tattoo. If you planned it really carefully in advance you could probably come up with something that could be covered or reworked a number of times into different things, but knowing in advance that you were going to do it seems to sort of defeat the point, somehow.

2007-04-05 05:53:05 · answer #6 · answered by Marzipan 4 · 0 0

No good answer to this one.....just remember a cover up is ALWAYS bigger than the original tattoo. So after a couple of times.....skin surface area becomes a problem.

See my profile and 360 page for a good example of the size increase of a cover up.

2007-04-05 05:44:13 · answer #7 · answered by Rider (12NI) 5 · 2 1

i had my first tattoo covered up and just recently got that coverup covered up. it is finally not going to be covered up anymore. i don't see how you can possibly cover up a huge lava rock. unless i got it covered with another huge lava rock but that'd just be silly.

2007-04-05 10:18:47 · answer #8 · answered by somebody's a mom!! 7 · 0 0

I had one of mine covered up (pretty good size one) and the cover up was done by a horible artist so I went two months later and had to have it covered up again. I have a lot of scar tissue, that's all. It looks great, but if you touch it, you feel a lot of scars.

2007-04-05 06:10:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You're already unhappy with your tattoo! You only got it done very recently! I would say - no coverups until you are more sure about your decision...

2007-04-05 10:31:34 · answer #10 · answered by kristina807 5 · 0 0

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