How to Fix a Bad Tattoo | Tattoo Artist

A lot of people in this world gotten bad tattoos I mean it's ridiculous and that's what happens when you don't know what you're doing and you're working out of your house and and you're getting you know work that's not up to snuff and how to fix it um if it's I would say if it's a tattoo that came in it was done you know it's done you know back in the 80s you know and they're like well I just want to dress it up well I suggest usually um if it's not that bad to go ahead and realign the whole tattoo that way it Crispin's up the lines you know just gives it a new life you know and once you get them those really nice lines in there you could go back and color it you know only problem is a lot of people don't understand that you know once it's pretty dark you can't it can't go brighter it can it can only it can only be freshened up but you know if we can put bright color in there but it's it's still that dark tones gonna be underneath it so it'll muddy it up a little bit but we can we try to fix it as you know back to the original as possible or even change it a little bit you if the tattoo is really bad you can go ahead and even you know find out if you if it's possible to do a cover-up um I do cover-up seminars all the time and what I do is mainly it works in conjunction with drawing on the skin because most every line in the tattoo that I cover up is covered up with line work of the new tattoo so I draw I draw my design specifically to fit over top of that other tattoo and use the lines that are already there so that you can actually cover the tattoo without even using any deep dark colors in which which is a bonus because my philosophy is you know you don't have to get it lasered you don't have to you know you don't have to you know limit yourself because I'm I put tattoos over top of other tattoos that you know they're like there's no black in this thing you know there's a new where's all the black and I usually try not to use as much black as possible you know because if you know it'll look like a cover-up if you start using a lot of black I use a lot of concentrated colors where you get depth without using black and it also doesn't look like a cover-up and it also and I use dark tones and light tones in the in the pigments itself then to actually disguise a lot of the a lot of the old tattoo that was there mainly shadows you know you don't have to go black

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