For the most part, tattoos are permanent, but now and then there comes a time when someone will walk out of a tattoo studio and either hate what they’ve just gotten inked or grow to like it less and less throughout the years. We all have regrets and should-of-could-of moments. Considering that tattoos are forever, a bad tattoo will remind you every time you change your clothes, of the tragedy on your skin. Tattoo cover up tattoos are the answer you’ve been looking for.
At Holy Grail Tattoos we have specialist cover up artists who are very skilled and have a wealth of experiance in this technique. we need to have a consultation with you first so we can see what we are dealing with. Then we will go through your options of design and colours.
When your tattoo was first done, the ink was deposited approximately one millimeter beneath the skin. This layer of skin is called the dermis, the layer below the epidermis(the skin you see).
As your tattoo cover up tattoos gets tattooed, the new ink is also deposited within the dermis, along with the old colored ink. The pigment in the new inks does not go over the top of the old tattoo pigments, rather it combines the two. Therefore, the stronger or darker colored ink becomes dominant and lighter colors mix to make new colors altogether. For example: red and blue mixed together, make purple. The same applies to tattoo ink combined underneath the skin.
Black is the most effective color to cover up an old tattoo. However, a black ink tattoo is not very attractive and you may as well have kept your old, horrible tattoo.
When a tattoo artist is designing a tattoo cover up, they consider the color in the old tattoo, mixed with the new inks colour. Talented tattoo artist work out a strategy that maximizes the use of colors and placement of the new tattoo design over the old one.
