The bigger the tattoo to be covered, the bigger the cover up will have to be
Let's imagine scenarios: one drunken night you decided tattoo you an obscene tattoo in an infected study; the love of your life now belongs to someone else; That very special phrase is not really Einstein's ... either the tattoo artist was a blanket, or the passage of the years has deteriorated the ink, or the tattoo is more out of date than the orange one.
Either way, you've decided you hate your tattoo and you don't want to take it off with laser. The other alternative is to cover it with a cover up. You need to keep a few things in mind before making this decision, as making a tattoo disappear is not as quick or easy as a magic trick.
Cover up
Some cover up simply consist of reviewing and enlarging the previous tattoo
Covering up a tattoo presents several complications. The first is the size. The cover up has to be larger than the tattoo to be covered, so the bigger one is, the bigger the other will be. That will include more work, more ink, and more pain as the affected area increases.
The second is the ink which was used with the first one. Some colors are more difficult to cover than others; to this is added that current inks are more resistant to being covered than old or deteriorated ones. The third is the expertise of the first tattoo artist: If it left a lot of scars, it will be more difficult to fix
Other cover up masks the previous tattoo and make it disappear
The technique used is not simply to cover it with a new drawing and strong colors, but to create a optical illusion Taking advantage of the forms of the old and merging them with the new so that the eye focuses on certain points of the new tattoo and does not see the previous one.
It is necessary that you choose a good professional, we do not get tired of telling you, but in this case it is even more important than on other occasions, because if the new tattoo it is not well covered, you will have two visible tattoos and a later cover up will be even more difficult as the complications multiply.
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