Tattoos

I’m in the exact same boat, exiled myself from social media, but feel totally unsure how to look for artists and stuff now!

Anyone have trouble healing yellow?

Not trouble healing, but my yellow heavy tattoos are more sensitive to the sun for sure. It’s a bit strange.

Red is a bastard for me, purple for my partner. I think all inks hit different on different folks.
Whatever brand of black Malice uses is the absolute business. My tattoos from her are the only ones that have never triggered my psoriasis, irrespective of other factors like season, my overall health etc.

Cheers @JB @edmundro
Due to this trip (in which I didn't swim) I only had access to clean water in the mornings and evenings so I decided to dry heal. So first few days normal, then I let them do their own thing, but obvs cleaning them morning and evening. I've done it before and it's been fine, but I don't like doing it.
Tattoos always look like shit when healing like this so I'm probably being paranoid.
@JB what kinda stuff does your yellow get up to?

Cause I live in Southern California, the UV can get really intense here. I also do a lot of long distance driving. When I drive and the sun is beating down into my car onto my arm for hours and hours at a time, it just feels like the yellow spots are under a magnifying glass with the sun shining straight into it - if that makes sense. The rest of my arm feels fine. I wear high factor sun cream and it minimizes the issue. But 100% more sensitive. These bastards, basically, particularly the demon guy.

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Ah I get you, I'm not sure if I have that from my other tattoos with yellow, but these new ones are sure healing funny.

I wonder what it is about yellow, must be some kind of pigment or mineral, or maybe that they can sometimes go harder on the yellow as it's hard to see?

Yours looks like they've healed wonderfully. Also super awesome tattoos.

@edmundro is it always those colours or just those colours from one particular artist?

Good leg from Mark Tumaru , Dunedin NZ

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Thanks pal. I like this stack a lot. And yeah - no idea really. The purple in the demon guy healed real bad, and funnily enough, the guy that did it - who has tattooed me a lot has stopped using that purple altogether. He had to pack so much of it in there and it still ended up being super patchy.

Was it straight out the bottle or did thye mix it?

Coming at this from a non tattoo artist but painter background, you need to mix yellow with white to make it more opaque, same goes for other colours also.

I always had colours straight from the bottle, so I'm just guessing.

He mixed it with white.

Then my theory goes out the window.

Been wanting this for a long time and finally got around to it. It's a print from a Ukrainian artist that we got when my daughter was born (her name is linked to Ursa Minor). Finally got a "tattoo ticket" from the artist and found someone to do it.

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might be the wrong words - but that's cute

Not wrong at all!

That is great. Really really great.

Got this coffee plant a few months ago, hadn't had a tattoo for about a decade.

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cute, well done, but curious how it will look like in 5 to 10 years.

fact: bold will hold

I have been considering getting a coffee plant. I like. Very good.

That's very sweet. She'll cherish that.

That's so lovely!!

So so good!
I want to get a picture from
I want my hat back by Jon Klassen
One day.

Awesome! Really good job

That is quite simply the best tattoo I have ever seen on here, particularly with the back story. My wife, who is referred to as 'bear' by our grandkids (she utterly refuses to be a granny) wants to copy it, despite that not being the done thing!

Well, you've met me, several times. So you can attest to the likeness of the larger bear...

Copying is no issue, certainly not with me seeing as I do not own the work. The artist is on Etsy (where I got the print originally) and they gladly sold me a "tattoo ticket" for £25 which allows the buyer a one time use to recreate the image for tattoo or embroidery for personal (not commercial) use. I can send you the link. Finding someone to do the tattoo is the hardest part. The water colour and lighter shades are not everyone's bag. The guy who did mine works out of Crystal Palace and I think somewhere in Bromley.