Yes. Every time you damage the skin there is required healing and that healing isn’t as perfect as the time before. BUT most tattoos are just colorful wounds that age in a pretty predicable way. The goal of a cover up is to determine a few things before the work begins: How much trauma the skin can handle before you push it to a point where noticeable scarring occurs. How much saturation is already introduced into the skin. What budget is available for the work to be done. What timeline is given to complete the work. Once you have those you can make assumptions (hypotheses) about how to approach the work. If you have an infinite budget and timeline many things can be done to keep the skin within a tolerable level of scarring - this will reduce lack of clarity as aging occurs. Every time you tattoo some of the ink in the skin gets pushed into the body or ejected during the heal. This push and pull of colorants meets a midline point where a desirable tone can be met but pure tones will never be possible. These forces are increased as more trauma is exerted on the body. If you don’t have those two you are balancing quality and potential scarring over time. The next video in the series talks more about this. TLDR: hypothetically yes but it will probably age like crap the more you go in.
@@BetterTattooing Thanks for this, I'm always humbled by what people will share, this is valuable information us learning from your experiences. I've also been recommended to do a course on wounds and dermatology which I've started. Luckily for me I find tattooing so fascinating that I'm retaining most of this information. Lol I've started to listen to the podcasts too, I'm I able to get a hold of the first ever podcast!? I noticed on Spotify it starts at the same place as it does on here!! If I can could you point me in the right direction!? Thanks K
Thank you ryan...im being asked to do a lot of cover ups at the minuite and customers expectations are crazy 👀
About 85% of my work is cover up or rework stuff. I feel ya
@@BetterTattooing well....i hope to get as good as i can....so i can turn things people.dont like...into something they do like 🙏
Is there a limit to how many times you can work in one area!? Regardless of timescale!!
Yes. Every time you damage the skin there is required healing and that healing isn’t as perfect as the time before. BUT most tattoos are just colorful wounds that age in a pretty predicable way. The goal of a cover up is to determine a few things before the work begins:
How much trauma the skin can handle before you push it to a point where noticeable scarring occurs.
How much saturation is already introduced into the skin.
What budget is available for the work to be done.
What timeline is given to complete the work.
Once you have those you can make assumptions (hypotheses) about how to approach the work. If you have an infinite budget and timeline many things can be done to keep the skin within a tolerable level of scarring - this will reduce lack of clarity as aging occurs. Every time you tattoo some of the ink in the skin gets pushed into the body or ejected during the heal. This push and pull of colorants meets a midline point where a desirable tone can be met but pure tones will never be possible. These forces are increased as more trauma is exerted on the body.
If you don’t have those two you are balancing quality and potential scarring over time. The next video in the series talks more about this.
TLDR: hypothetically yes but it will probably age like crap the more you go in.
@@BetterTattooing Thanks for this, I'm always humbled by what people will share, this is valuable information us learning from your experiences. I've also been recommended to do a course on wounds and dermatology which I've started. Luckily for me I find tattooing so fascinating that I'm retaining most of this information. Lol
I've started to listen to the podcasts too, I'm I able to get a hold of the first ever podcast!? I noticed on Spotify it starts at the same place as it does on here!! If I can could you point me in the right direction!?
Thanks K
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