coloured tattoos on black skin?

Question

i dont know if its myth or reality but I've been told that black people's skin rejects couloured tattoos so each couple months you have to retouch your tattoo to add the colors in it is it true

Answer 1

that's not true but it really depends on just how black your skin is as to what colors will show up.
people who are light skinned have more of a choice in colors. but the same color looks different on all skin colors. as someone with pale olive skin i have the same color ink in one of my tattoos as a mexican friend of mine and the color difference is huge. mine looks bright fuscia and his looks dark maroon.

if your skin is "black" as dark as someone who is literally from africa then black ink is the only thing that will show up and that may not show up well.

if you have an average black skin then many colors will show up well, but not light colors.

and if you have a very light skin tone you shouldn't be limited in color choice.

no matter your skin color if a certatin color isn't going to work with your skin, having it touched up often won't help anything. hopefully a talented artist will know what colors will work with what skin tones and wouldn't do something that isn't feasable. also tattoos aren't meant to be touched up often, only a few times over a lifetime. if they are touched up too much you will have scarring which will be ugly and could cause another whole set of problems.

Answer 2

Colored Tattoos On Black Skin

Answer 3

It all depends on the person, not the skin, my husband is white and has to have his coloured arm tattoos retouched every 2 years or so as the colour just disappears (doesnt even fade), some people just dont take colour but most tattoos should be touched up every 10-15 years to keep them looking like new.

Answer 4

hey I have three tattoos one with color. The one with color has gold, red, and green in it and looks fine. The skin doesn't reject the color. Go into your artist and discuss with them what colors would be best for your skin tone. Some colors don't show up as vibrantly on darker skin tones because after you get a tattoo done a layer of skin grows over it, and you are looking at that tattoo through that layer of skin, therefore you could see why some colors are not as vibrant on darker skin. Good Luck

Answer 5

I work at a tattoo parlor as a piercer. I see our black clientel come in very often to get the colors retouched the color isn't rejected, it just isn't as vibrant, color on a white piece of paper and then color on a black piece of paper. Also I have a light skinned black friend and his color faded. Usually the light colors fade out, like yellow, light orange and red. The blues and Blacks stay but they blend. I hope this helps. Oh I also had a dark skinned black friend and he got a pair of dice tattooed on his arm, he had the white put in, but it faded into a grayish skin tone color. Good Luck, everyones skin is different. Those are just my experiences!

Answer 6

The melanin under the skin of a black person means that everything gets tainted brown (I'm assuming by black you mean african american, not african black).

The reason this isn't so apparant with black is because the black absorbs the brown colouring anyway, so the melanin makes little difference. The only difference is it's harder to see because the flesh around it is darker.

With colour it's more apparant, because the brown can discolour most of the commonly used colours. The colour doesn't reject, but the effect of dulling will be much more prevalent because of the darkness of the skin.

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

Well, bro, dunno about the long term, but I recall being kinda suprised when I saw the results of a buddy's tat way back when. He was black (I assume he still is), and had the Superman symbol done on his shoulder. The color was suprisingly vibrant. I doubt anybody's skin "rejects" anything. I bet it's more a matter of achieving a high-enough saturation of color for it to show. Watch out for that - some shitbirds like to grind and grind with the needle for the sake of getting the ink heavy. I guess it works but hurts like hell and can leave scarring.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

the skin doesn't reject the ink. some colors just aren't as vibrant because it's on top of a darker pigment. Same as if your coloring on different shades of paper certain colors don't pop out as much

Answer 10

It doesn't reject it, it's just harder to see on darker skin. You'll have to get it retouched often so it stays vibrant looking.