Making a Good Cover-Up
A lot of times I will get someone in here wanting some cover-up work, or at the least, recoloring a tattoo that's faded. Sometimes the original is a hand-made piece done when the person was young and impatient and sometimes it was something done by a "professional" in a shop. In either case, most bad tattoos are fixable in one way or another.
When people with bad tattoos come into Skin Deep, they're usually unsure about whether I'd be able to fix their tattoos. I've seen a lot of questionable work coming from Springfield shops, and since this is the first shop to open in rural Rogersville, tattoo fans have tended to make their own artwork on each other. Shop-done tattoos often have a complete design and are either more suited to fixing bad linework and shading or adding to what's already there, but sometimes the only thing that can be done is to find or create a good design to cover it. On the other hand, the homemade designs are easier to take into a completely different direction because of their just being a couple of light lines.
My first shot is one I fixed while at Top Gun. As you can see from the original photo, it was a badly-done outline of a Japanese design. Luckily, it was partially faded so I was able to put in all of the linework and shading it was supposed to have. The rest of the photos are work that was done here in Rogersville. The second shot was really easy to cover, especially with the design he chose. The rest of the photos were all done on the same person, who came in to cover one but ended up getting something incorporated and came back to get the others fixed up in the same way.
If you have some work that you aren't happy with, come in and see me or send me an email!
