Do very intricate tattoos last?

Question

I'm planning to get a tattoo, and I notice that many tattoos in good establishments and online are very detailed. I spoke to my friend, who is a good tattoo artist, and he said although it is possible to create intricate designs, I should not trust anyone who said they would do it, because the nature of tattoos means that over time the lines will blur and the tattoo will look a mess. I plan to get an olive tree on my back, and have drawn a simple design, but would prefer more detail.

Answer 1

You will have to have a fairly large tattoo to incorporate a lot of vibrant and visible details. A good artist should be able to help you decide on the best size for the image you'd like. You don't have to include every single tiny grain in the wood. You can keep it simple and still add good detail.

Regardless of what you do, your skin will age a bit, thats just life. But if the image becomes fuzzy long before your memory does, I would look into touch ups to refine some details. You only live once and I agree with others...go big or go home. Good luck.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Do very intricate tattoos last?
I'm planning to get a tattoo, and I notice that many tattoos in good establishments and online are very detailed. I spoke to my friend, who is a good tattoo artist, and he said although it is possible to create intricate designs, I should not trust anyone who said they would do it, because the...

Answer 4

Just because you want to get a tattoo with detail, doesn't mean that you have to go into VERY specific details.
Yes, details would look great, it's just that if you let them go overboard on the details, yes, over time, your tattoo will start to look as if it were melting together.
So, you can have details, just don't let them get too small and too many.
Talk to the artist who will be doing the tattoo for their personal opinion and work out the details at the time of the tattoo.

Answer 5

I totally agree with Olivia - go big or go home. Tiny tattoos with a lot of details will become tiny blobs.
My back tattoo isn't even that detailed but still went big. I have a tree on my back. The advantage to going big is that I can add to it at a later time, which I'm planning to do. Always a work in progress is my motto.....

Answer 6

it depends on many different factors. i think that small intricate detailed tattoos won't last as long because the skin loses elasticity as you age. but larger tattoos that are detailed can last as you age if you take care of your body (eat well and don't drink a lot of alcohol or smoke) and you MUST MUST MUST stay out of the sun. earlier this year i met a woman at a tattoo convention who has her entire body covered in tattoos. she is now in her fifties but i actually have pictures of her and her tattoos in a book from when she was in her 20s and her tattoos still look amazing today. i can tell that she has taken very good care of herself and her skin, of course her tattoos have aged a bit but they really don't look bad at all. i hope that when i am in my 50's my tattoos will look as good as hers do.

Answer 7

Very detailed tattoos need to be bigger...a responsible tattoo artist will tell you how big your tattoo needs to be. If you get your tattoo large enough when the ink spreads over time it won't turn into a big blob. Find yourself a good artist and you will be fine.

Answer 8

Get Cory Miller to do it and it'll look freaking awsome. You have to find not a good, but a GREAT tattoo artist and give him or her a little bit of room to do their own thing (really great ones can do that and make it look better than you even imagined). He (Cory) did a USMC bulldog for my husband and it was 100 times better than we could have even imagined.

Answer 9

The more intricate it is, the bigger it needs to be.
If it's too small, the design will blur together because of the way your skin ages.

Answer 10

I have had them over 50 years and they do blur has your skin grows.