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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 1:38 am Post subject: cover-up of irrelevant tattoo looking for tattooists opinion |
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Hey everybody. First time poster here.
I have an old tattoo, a religious symbol that is currently totally irrelevant to me 
It is all black, half an inch lines at its widest parts , about 4 inches high, 4 inches wide. Slightly three dimensional due to scarring.
My GF called around to tattooists to get me a quote for a cover-up (birthday present, god bless her), many tattooists seemed to think that covering it up with a big black square similar to one of the squares that the fetish model apneatic wears, would be a bad idea. Why would this be regarded as a bad idea? Is it difficult to cover it up properly? . See image of apneatic below  |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| Because a big black box is weak. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| OICUR4692 wrote: | | Because a big black box is weak. |
What an elaborate response. Weak how? It is sort of how far I will stretch these days. Religion, band names, decorations, philosophy, all meaningless to me these days. Don't want to sound like a complete nihilist but it is the way it is. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| digib wrote: | | OICUR4692 wrote: | | Because a big black box is weak. |
What an elaborate response. Weak how? It is sort of how far I will stretch these days. Religion, band names, decorations, philosophy, all meaningless to me these days. Don't want to sound like a complete nihilist but it is the way it is. |
You could always wait until something does mean something to you. You don't think that down the road you'll regret having a black box on you? |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| I would just get a full black sleeve. Fuck a box. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| MourningWood wrote: |
You could always wait until something does mean something to you. You don't think that down the road you'll regret having a black box on you? |
Sorry for sounding all goth now. But I am approaching 40 and I do not think things will mean enough to me in the future to have them inked on my body. A black box, possibly a huge question-mark, or maybe a dark cloud, is all that I can think of that fits my current and previous life situation. Or maybe a big red heart with "mom" written across it haha.
Anyway, are there any technical issues with inking over a slightly three dimensional chunky black tattoo with a black box as shown in the example? |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| No nothing technical to worry about. How about a grim reaper and the black cloak will cover what you have? |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| flyangler wrote: | | No nothing technical to worry about. How about a grim reaper and the black cloak will cover what you have? |
Interesting. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I like this shot of her box much more |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| flyangler wrote: |
I like this shot of her box much more |
Haha, yeah. I would tattoo that image but I want to keep my lecherousness slightly hidden. |
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| digib wrote: | | flyangler wrote: |
I like this shot of her box much more |
Haha, yeah. I would tattoo that image but I want to keep my lecherousness slightly hidden. |
Are you a female? If you are into traditional art there are alot of meanigless images that make great tattoos and could cover most anything. Panther head, a black cat (for bad luck), Grim reaper, an umbrella.... Anything would be better than a black square. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| flyangler wrote: |
Are you a female? If you are into traditional art there are alot of meanigless images that make great tattoos and could cover most anything. Panther head, a black cat (for bad luck), Grim reaper, an umbrella.... Anything would be better than a black square. |
I have only been female in some dreams... all male here.
I think the black square fits me because it is nonfigurative. Panthers and umbrellas won't. |
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| digib wrote: | | MourningWood wrote: |
You could always wait until something does mean something to you. You don't think that down the road you'll regret having a black box on you? |
Sorry for sounding all goth now. But I am approaching 40 and I do not think things will mean enough to me in the future to have them inked on my body. |
I don't mean to sound like an old know-it-all, but I'm 54 and you won't believe the changes in your life over the next 15 years. Since I was 40 I've started riding motorcycles again, started drawing, began participating in animal rescue, married an artist and am currently working on a Japanese sleeve. It's your arm, if you think you want a black box, get one. |
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| MourningWood wrote: | | I'm 54 and you won't believe the changes in your life over the next 15 years. Since I was 40 I've started riding motorcycles again, started drawing, began participating in animal rescue, married an artist |
Good with some positive input. I guess I'm just in a very dark place right now and I have been for quite a long period of time. I guess I want to reflect that somehow. Also, thx for rescuing the animals  |
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| digib wrote: | | MourningWood wrote: | | I'm 54 and you won't believe the changes in your life over the next 15 years. Since I was 40 I've started riding motorcycles again, started drawing, began participating in animal rescue, married an artist |
Good with some positive input. I guess I'm just in a very dark place right now and I have been for quite a long period of time. I guess I want to reflect that somehow. Also, thx for rescuing the animals |
I've suffered from depression myself. My Shrink used to call it the wet cat syndrome. Imagine a cat that's been sitting in the rain all day and is soaking wet. Do you think the cat could ever imagine a time when it was dry? Keep plugging, for a lot of people it gets better. I'm glad I didn't make any irreversible decisions while I was depressed. Good luck! For what it's worth I recommend volunteer work. There's nothing like helping people even worse off than yourself to make you realize how good you have it. |
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