I think a video dedicated to tattoos before and after weight gain/loss would be great ! Personally I have found that my tattoo has not evenly grown with me :( I have a snake tattoo that starts just below my hip and goes partway down my thigh, and the top third by my hip has expanded outwards more then the rest, creating thicker lines and the top part of the snake is now thick and the rest is skinnier lol However, I am pregnant so my weight gain is not evenly spread. Thought I would share! Something to maybe consider when getting a tattoo that crosses over multiple body areas ?
Cassandra Forrest This would be a great idea! I myself had two thigh pieces centered on my legs & after weightloss they’re now more on the inside of my leg.
Omg I have a snake in the same spot lmao. Thanks for the info! I'm in the process of getting a tummy tattoo (sternum to belly button) and I'm only slightly nervous to see how it will change with inevitable weight gain but mostly I feel like idgaf. 🤷♀️
It'd be super interesting to check in with the facebook group to see how their tattoos have looked after they gain or lose weight or after pregnancy, I've always been curious about that!
I would love to see aged dotwork/blackwork tattoos, I know you oppose them because of aging, and I know it's a fairly new style, so if there are people with them it would be great!
Blackwork ages well. Dotwork tends to blend as it ages so that the shading becomes less dot like and more even. If you have a dark, bold, high contrast design it turns out okay.
Blue hair is your thing! The pop of yellow, pink and green look so good with your hair, I actually can't cope. Love these videos, honestly so interesting to see other people's tattoos
Dude, that lipstick suits you so well, and it's an AWESOME color. And it matches those amazing earrings perfectly and them contrasting with the blue hair, eyeshadow and monochrome top is so iconic! You always have the best looks! :D love your videos!
Haley Giunta just the thing is with watercolor tattoos it’s probably hard to make it look like watercolor because of all the water that you use but i see what you mean because it’s so dark
I had a conversation about this exact thing with a tattoo artist who specializes in watercolor. He said that since tattoos fade you have to make watercolor tattoos darker than you actually want to keep them from disappearing after a few years. Basically he makes his watercolor tattoos fairly darker than his vision to account for fading. He showed me comparisons between fresh and healed work (he often asks his clients for pictures of healed tattoos to show when potential clients ask for it), and honestly some of them looked better after a few years simply because the colors became less saturated and more watercolor like. Since it doesn't have any harsh lines this method of "waiting for it to look better" works very well with this style. Not to say saturated watercolor tattoos don't look good - because they do, I have two from him that are still saturated and look amazing, but it's interesting how you can use the fading to your advantage.
To add on my previous comment. He did say it's possible to make the colors look faded and watercolor-like from the get-go, but that he strongly advised against it since the colors wouldn't hold up well if they were too light.
for watercolours i feel like it has less to do with the outline and more to do with the coulour choice, my friend got a lovely tattoo about two years ago, a solid black peter pan outline over two different colour watercolour splashes, one pink/red and one blue, she got her touchups after a month as her artist recommended and only about 1 year later theres nothing left execpt the peper pan outline, the watercolour is so vague and faded that it just looks like a weird bruise
I'm sorry for your friend. I would suggest asking for a darker and more saturated color than you invision if you ever get a watercolor tattoo - especially if you have darker skin. Many watercolor artist intentionally use a darker color just to account for fading, since a low saturated light color will fade very quickly. When I got mine, I remember being a bit nervous when the artist pulled out an array of bright neon colors. I was even unhappy with the tattoo at first because I thought it was too bright and didn't look like watercolor. But now, 3 years later it has faded somewhat. The bright neon color is gone but it's still saturated and looks amazing. So don't be afraid of going brighter and darker than you want. It will last longer that way and fade into the color you want it to be.
@@AM-gv9db yeah thats exactly what i tried to tell her before she had it done, but it was her first tat and she figured she knew more than me, doesnt help that she went to a really shit artist as well tbh, i dont think the style would suit me much at all so luckily ill probs never have to worry about it lol
Thank you so much for that blow out part! (Deathly hallow tattoo) My tattoos basically all look like that, my skin also have a tendency to blow out a little bit more than "usual". I've felt ashamed for all my tattoos because of that but it felt good hearing how normal it is, so thank you ❤️
If the water color bird tattoo was not touched up then that's very impressive! It looks like they touched it up to me because some of the lines are thicker and bolder bbut there's nothing wrong with that!
Thinking about this now I regret not doing this with my newest tattoo, but for my next one I'm going to try and photograph it fairly often (like everyday through like the first couple weeks because that'd be cool watching it go through all the different phases imo and then like once a month once the majority of the healing is done) and just see how it changes over time
Lol never seen an awfully healed watercolour tattoo? I should show you mine! Not even a full year after I got it and it's almost 100% disappeared and the other half turned faded and bruisey looking
They must’ve not put the ink deep enough into your skin to hold. My watercolour looks just as bright as it did the day I got it and it’s nearly a year old. My artist told me she’d need to work it more than if it was just shading.
I don't know if you've watched one piece but there is a cyborg character who can shoot his fist out on a chain. I'd have his fist with a little bit of the chain palm sized on my upper arm.
I do like the video, just a suggestion it would have been better if you had the pictures bigger, with you on a smaller frame, so people can really see what they look like side by side. Cause there are colors that you say but i can't fully see. This is a comparison video, and having a better view would be really helpful. Just a suggestion =)
I think whoever did the green splash tattoo with the paw print made a smart move. It was sliiightly outlined, so when it was fresh the outline added depth and when it healed it prevented the edges from going too blurry and the shape was still fine
I'm glad I went with black line work for my foot tattoo. I have a rosary around my ankle onto top flat of my foot and it's been there for 7 years now and still looks almost as good as the day I got it
Pleeeeaaase do more videos like this. They are very, very helpfull. Specialy since a lot of people hold themselves back from getting a tattoo because they think all tattoos age horribly.
Those foot tattoos though (Quinn's)!!! They look amazing! I have an appointment to finish my thigh piece tomorrow. It's a traditional style tattoo, and I'm actually excited for it to age. I love how traditional pieces look as they get older. It's almost like that's how they're supposed to look (in my opinion anyway.) I also have a pretty large black line-work tattoo on my back, and it's aged surprisingly well considering that it's 12 years old now.
on the black widow tattoo i think its super impressive and cool that the smoke from the guns healed so grey and smoke-like despite what it looked like fresh
I have a black outline dolphin with different blue tones water colors on my ribs. It's about 2.5 - 3 years old. The water color is mostly smooth and still there. The black is so scarred I can feel it through my shirt and it has turned a weird hazy grey green color. I took care of it, never seen sun, use good lotion, all my other tattoos are smooth and perfect. (Different artist)
I love these videos and I really appreciate them because it’s so hard to find pictures of fully healed tattoos and it gives me a great idea of what to expect. Also I’m like obsessed with l the colors going on in your look!!
This was a well informed video! Thanks for making this. You’re completely right about the weight gain. Most of the time the tattoo enlarges proportionally; and for weight loss the same except shrinking. However there are always outliers that are important to consider with all tattoos. If the Tattoo or line(s) fall on a *post tattoo* stretch mark then there is a high chance that the pigment in that skin will fill the entirety of the stretch mark. This happened with one of my clients and it distorted the image to an extent that we had to add onto/cover a portion of the old design. Though tattoos are permanent, they can be malleable! Weight loss can cause some lines to become too close together and thusly effect the aging process of them. The only times I have experienced the “lopsided” effect from bodily changes were from pregnancy and muscle mass. In the case of pregnancy, everyBODY is different. Some people’s tattoos look exactly the same and sometimes the skin doesn’t sit the same way afterwards which can leave the design warped. Most people fix this with a touch/cover up depending on severity. And lastly, muscles and their dimensions. Muscles obvi sit under the skin and when a person either greatly increases or decreases their mass it can effect how and where the skin sits on the body. Because muscles are more dimensional and grow in different proportions to each other than fat, a person is more likely to experience warping with this changing body type. Muscle mass can fluctuate through a person’s lifetime and is an important factor to consider when planning a tattoo.
Love your makeup! I'm too afraid to use bold colors personally, I usually stick to neutral/ fall colors myself! One thing that I think that could make your eyes pop even more is if you ran the eyeshadow under your bottom lashes too, to kind of connect everything! 💖
I tend to not blend out my lower lash line too, it's a preference thing. I'll do it sometimes, but w light colors like yellow, I usually don't, it makes my eyes look smaller.
Love videos on this subject, thanks for another great one! I don't have any of this type myself, but I really like the way some tattoos with fewer bold outlines fade into the skin a little. It creates a cool organic effect, almost like the image has appeared by itself *from* the skin, iyswim! It's the same as with tattoos on dark skin; the fact that they blend in more with the surrounding skin is just a different look, not a tattoo that doesn't look right. Bold = awesome, subtle = awesome; it's all good! The only potential pitfall I see really is when darker colours within it are placed in such a way that when the rest starts to blend into its background more, the whole thing looks uneven. But I'm guessing that could be fairly easily sorted by adding a few more lines/areas of dark colour at a later date anyway. And as we come to understand more about how watercolour tattoos age, we're only going to get better at predicting results from the start and taking that into account when designing them.
I've been waiting for this video, I'm so glad you made it, I really appreciate that! I am getting my second tattoo soon and I've been wondering about this exact topic. I swear, I could watch this kind of video all day long. The realism portrait is Drop dead Fred btw, a hilarious silly movie from the 90's.
i love the topic of this video (and the other 😄)!! Glad you filmed another one. Can people only send you their tattoos over FB? Do they know what video it will be used for? Can't wait for the next videos with subscriber tattoos 😍 its always sooo interesting with the photos.. sorry for my english 😅 also i live for your blue hair n eyebrows
Yes and yes! I put a post out saying I’m doing a video on whatever topic and if people want to volunteer their pictures of their tattoos that would be great! 😁
My watercolour tattoo, sadly, didn't heal great. A bunch of the pigment completely disappeared. It's strange though, my friend got a tattoo from the same artist at the same time, and hers healed great. Mine was on my foot, and I used numbing cream (which I will never do again). Hers was on her ribs and no numbing cream. None of my other tattoos have had this happen. I also know that some people's skin doesn't hold pigment well, but I feel like the numbing cream fucked it up The artist has posted other healed photos and his tattoos always look good.
I really feel it has more to do with placement and your skin sometimes than the artist. I have two tattoos that I got done with friends at the same time on my body. One is black work and is faded and blown out, I've gotten it re-inked, it's just not looking great. The friend with the same tattoo looks nearly identical to the day we got them. My other matching tatt I got looks amazing. It's a trad style and looks amazing, my friend got hers in a different spot and it's not nearly as nice. Hers didn't heal as well as mine. I really feel like it can come down to luck too. I love all my tattoos, but I accept that they change over time. And I'm a person who is happy to go get re-inked and factor that into my design and placement decisions.
@@jessica87au Like I said, my skin holds onto pigment fairly well. My other foot tattoo is black linework and it looks fine (as do the lines to my watercolour piece). I honestly don't understand. I am very willing to get it redone, but I want to go back to the same artist and he's in a different country than me (no one else in my area has quite the same style). Maybe one day!
Honey Shane Dawson’s boyfriend ryland Adams just did a video getting a tattoo love to see your reaction! Loved this video really interesting to see how tattoos age xx
First of all I LOVE this blue pink look on you. Love it. Secondly it would be really cool for you to show us a part 2 on this but with your own tattoos. Sort of a tattoo story but aged. (This tattoo brand new and now its x-amount of years old and go thru all your aged pieces) forgive me if you've done this and I just haven't seen it yet. Cheers :)
Certain areas need to be touched up sooner than others obviously. The head, I've pretty much had to do two passes because ink doesnt hold well on the head skin. Your hair is thicker so your follicles are wider, so it pushes more ink out during the healing process. My head will be lightening down during healing, but anything on the neck or face(other than the head) stay VERY dark. Color, especially whites/yellows lose so much vibrancy during healing. And it also depends on how you heal it. Some artist will say, no petroleum based products, and use just non scented lotion. But Neosporin has a cream/lotion antibiotic that I use for the first 3-4 days, then once it starts to peel move over to lotion but dont overwash or wash too hard when its scabbing otherwise you're gonna pull out the ink yourself. You kinda have to let it sit and scab and let it fall off naturally the best you can and it will retain more color. Artists cant tell you this, because some people are just dirty and will get infections but if you're clean and you're past the inflammation portion (first 4 days), leave that fucker alone, dont wash it and let the scabs fall off. You can kinda see my Goddess Kali in my avatar. That was one day old and now that its healed its WAY lighter than the 91 Freeway sign I have tattooed on my neck. I did the "neglect tek" on my Lord Shiva piece on the top of my head and it healed just as dark as the 91 Fwy, so now I need another pass on my Kali to match the Shiva to the 91. The Kali healed so light m, you cant tell it's a crown of skeletons anymore on her head. It lightened about 50% of what's in the pic. I have a 2" x 3" spot on the back of my neck, I'm gonna put an evil eye in and then I'll have him guy give Kali one more pass and my dome will be done!! After 20 years, I finally finished my back piece this year too!! Lol. Today it seems like the millenials and the people that wish they were millenials are getting full suits in less than a year!! I just watched a guy go into a shop for anybody suit and had "ZERO concept" so now he's covered in black chicken scratch all over!! Tattoing was a warrior preparation in the Polynesian Islands. Tattoos are serious and were a rite of passage. The wrong one can get you killed in my neighborhood, so seeing it turn into a fad is very cringeworthy, to the hardcore enthusiasts. Notice all the "stars/celebs" of the past 20 or so years are getting "blackout" cover ups and shit, to hide the faddish tattoos they got years ago, you know, the flames, the barn wire, etc. Lol All gimic/faddish tattoos. So what do they do when the "blackout " fad goes away? Spend 2 million in laser removal surgeries?? You're f'ed!! I always thought of tattoos as badges of my life experiences, from the Good to the Evil, it's all there and only I can decode the symbology.
My watercolor tattoo is the tattoo I get complimented on the most. People will stop me on the street to ask where I got it. It’s about 6 years old at this point and I love it!
I have a large watercolour piece on my back which I used little cream for during healing still looks incredibly vibrant. I start my sleeve in September too
Great video! I have large script on my thigh in a typewriter font and it's blown out a bit after only 18 months but I actually like it better because it looks even more like how it would if it was written on a real typewriter haha!! Also where are those earrings from? I'm in love with them!
Love this series! I'm considering a first tattoo, basically just want a tiny letter 'B' on my inner ankle, but the idea of it blurring over time is kinda putting me off! Would choosing a finer/thinner font prevent blurring as much? Or is it inevitable?! xx
I have a blue pink and purple tattoo on my thigh that's healed beautifully Its as bright as the day i got it. If i had social media i would def show you
what do you think determines lines being blown out over time. Do you think its application of the tattoo, the persons body, healing practices? Some tattoos the line work still looks amazing years later and others not so much.
That's more of a water splash tattoo and not watercolor, (the dog paw) there is some technical application difference like using lines but in the splash color and not black lines. You dont water down the ink. You can get a similar look and give it longevity . My mentor tattooed for 47 years so I got the best education on tattoo longevity possible. I'm a Tattoo artist in Olympia wa
My second tattoo is in a watercolor style and compared to my first tattoo (black and gray) it held up a lot better than my first one but that's probably because I almost never expose my second tattoo to the sunlight since its quite high on my thigh whereas my first tattoo is on my shoulder blade.
@treacle tatts - Late finding this video/your channel, so hopefully you’ll see this! I’ve been planning for several years to get 3 small birds tattooed in black on my inner wrist (to symbolize my kids). I went last week to a highly reputable tattoo place to finally get it and they told me they wouldn’t do the tattoo for me because they knew it wouldn’t age well and I wouldn’t like it 10+ years from now so they didn’t feel right doing it - not as small as I wanted it, WHERE I wanted it. They were very nice and apologetic about it and I thanked them for their honesty. I was really disappointed, though, as it would have meant a lot to me and I’d thought carefully about it for so long. You seem quite knowledgeable - do you agree that tattoo would not age well?
I know this is a year old, but they were right it wouldn't age well, did they suggest doing them bigger or in a different place? Because I would take that recommendation if so
@@Rose-jz6sx Thanks for the reply - I’d forgotten I’d commented here! They did - they suggested larger and on my forearm. Looking back, I’m so grateful for their straightforwardness and that I didn’t have it done. I’m still considering getting a forearm one, but life and then the crazy state of the world have put lots of things on hold. Anyway, thanks for affirming that! 🙌🏼
I like how the green paw print watercolor tattoo healed, like yah the black is a little patchy but in my opinion it makes it look more like a watercolor painting like you know what I mean?
Could you possibly make a new post in your Facebook group so I can share my new versus healed tattoo?I have one with yellow and white in it that's 7 years old and I thin its held up really well.Thanks :)
Does a tattoo ever really settle into the skin completely? In other words, is there an approximate time in years where the tattoo stops fading/changing for the most part? (excluding changes to the body such as weight loss)
Diana Montero I am not an expert but I‘ll give it a try: Fading means, that the small particles of the color get transported „away“ (lymph nodes). The bigger particles stay where they are. Over time particles will break due to sunlight exposure and so the fading will continue. I think that on parts of the body that are not exposed to the sunlight, the fading might stop after a while (maybe a few years?), except for fading due to rubbing on the skin (e.g. on the soles of feet or between fingers).
@@annaturba I thought I read it never stops fading, the particles are different sized based on the colors. Some colors like red and white are smaller so your body is able to remove them to the liver. Bigger particles can degrade over time as the body attacks it, eventually reducing their size so they can be carried away to the liver. Black mainly a carbon based ink, does not get taken out of the body, since we are carbon based beings. Obviously other things tend to reduce the size of the ink particles aswell, the sun, certain oils or alcohol be placed on it.
Should you get tattoos with smaller lines so that when they get thicken they just end up closer to the size you want them? I know you need enough space between the lines so they don't blur out too much.
Do you have any sort of advice for tattoo placement? I want to get my mothers name tattooed somewhere and I want her name to be my first tattoo, but I can’t think of any placement that would look good and not be visible. (I’m in school to be an accountant, so I can’t have anything visible.)
I got a tattoo but he went over the lines and ignored some dot shading and did some too deep causing it to scab and pull ink out so I dunno I’m kinda pissed
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I think a video dedicated to tattoos before and after weight gain/loss would be great ! Personally I have found that my tattoo has not evenly grown with me :( I have a snake tattoo that starts just below my hip and goes partway down my thigh, and the top third by my hip has expanded outwards more then the rest, creating thicker lines and the top part of the snake is now thick and the rest is skinnier lol However, I am pregnant so my weight gain is not evenly spread. Thought I would share! Something to maybe consider when getting a tattoo that crosses over multiple body areas ?
Cassandra Forrest This would be a great idea! I myself had two thigh pieces centered on my legs & after weightloss they’re now more on the inside of my leg.
Same! I am on my journey of losing weight and I am scared that my tattoos will be messed up in the future!
I wondered about this too!
Omg I have a snake in the same spot lmao. Thanks for the info! I'm in the process of getting a tummy tattoo (sternum to belly button) and I'm only slightly nervous to see how it will change with inevitable weight gain but mostly I feel like idgaf. 🤷♀️
I am the owner of that Deathly Hallow tattoo and you’re too kind to me Lauren 😂💕
bubbanelson474 it honestly looks pretty good. Still legible, clean lines. As good as you could probably hope for!
I think it still looks pretty good
It'd be super interesting to check in with the facebook group to see how their tattoos have looked after they gain or lose weight or after pregnancy, I've always been curious about that!
I can continue to that! My half sleeve isn't the most drastic, but I can 100% see a difference between now and when I got it 3 months ago
I would love to see aged dotwork/blackwork tattoos, I know you oppose them because of aging, and I know it's a fairly new style, so if there are people with them it would be great!
Blackwork ages well. Dotwork tends to blend as it ages so that the shading becomes less dot like and more even. If you have a dark, bold, high contrast design it turns out okay.
Blue hair is your thing! The pop of yellow, pink and green look so good with your hair, I actually can't cope. Love these videos, honestly so interesting to see other people's tattoos
totally agree!!
I love the "aged" tattoos more, but I just love when tattoos become more part of the person and really sink into the skin 😊
Dude, that lipstick suits you so well, and it's an AWESOME color. And it matches those amazing earrings perfectly and them contrasting with the blue hair, eyeshadow and monochrome top is so iconic! You always have the best looks! :D love your videos!
The yellow eyeshadow with your blue hair is giving me Coraline vibes. I love it 😍😍💙💙
I wouldn’t call the paw print with the paint splatter a “watercolor tattoo”. Watercolor is soft gradients with a less solid look, more blended.
Haley Giunta just the thing is with watercolor tattoos it’s probably hard to make it look like watercolor because of all the water that you use but i see what you mean because it’s so dark
I had a conversation about this exact thing with a tattoo artist who specializes in watercolor. He said that since tattoos fade you have to make watercolor tattoos darker than you actually want to keep them from disappearing after a few years. Basically he makes his watercolor tattoos fairly darker than his vision to account for fading. He showed me comparisons between fresh and healed work (he often asks his clients for pictures of healed tattoos to show when potential clients ask for it), and honestly some of them looked better after a few years simply because the colors became less saturated and more watercolor like. Since it doesn't have any harsh lines this method of "waiting for it to look better" works very well with this style. Not to say saturated watercolor tattoos don't look good - because they do, I have two from him that are still saturated and look amazing, but it's interesting how you can use the fading to your advantage.
To add on my previous comment. He did say it's possible to make the colors look faded and watercolor-like from the get-go, but that he strongly advised against it since the colors wouldn't hold up well if they were too light.
for watercolours i feel like it has less to do with the outline and more to do with the coulour choice, my friend got a lovely tattoo about two years ago, a solid black peter pan outline over two different colour watercolour splashes, one pink/red and one blue, she got her touchups after a month as her artist recommended and only about 1 year later theres nothing left execpt the peper pan outline, the watercolour is so vague and faded that it just looks like a weird bruise
I'm sorry for your friend. I would suggest asking for a darker and more saturated color than you invision if you ever get a watercolor tattoo - especially if you have darker skin. Many watercolor artist intentionally use a darker color just to account for fading, since a low saturated light color will fade very quickly. When I got mine, I remember being a bit nervous when the artist pulled out an array of bright neon colors. I was even unhappy with the tattoo at first because I thought it was too bright and didn't look like watercolor. But now, 3 years later it has faded somewhat. The bright neon color is gone but it's still saturated and looks amazing. So don't be afraid of going brighter and darker than you want. It will last longer that way and fade into the color you want it to be.
@@AM-gv9db yeah thats exactly what i tried to tell her before she had it done, but it was her first tat and she figured she knew more than me, doesnt help that she went to a really shit artist as well tbh, i dont think the style would suit me much at all so luckily ill probs never have to worry about it lol
omg I love the blue hair with the pink lipstick and earrings and yellow eyeshadow!! truly iconic
The biggest difference I see in these tattoos and how well they hold up is the technical skill of the artist.
Thank you so much for that blow out part! (Deathly hallow tattoo) My tattoos basically all look like that, my skin also have a tendency to blow out a little bit more than "usual". I've felt ashamed for all my tattoos because of that but it felt good hearing how normal it is, so thank you ❤️
If the water color bird tattoo was not touched up then that's very impressive! It looks like they touched it up to me because some of the lines are thicker and bolder bbut there's nothing wrong with that!
The bird is mine actually 😂 Never been touched up, but I'm never in the sun, so might be why it has held up so nicely.
@@henrietteb2740 that's so weird how the lines got bolder! But yes staying out of the sun is key. It looks amazing 😊
@@paula92111 Thanks :) Yeah never really noticed it until I saw it next to the fresh one.
Thank you for doing this! I have been self-conscious about my linework tattoo for it being a bit faded/blurred but this made me feel so much better!
Thinking about this now I regret not doing this with my newest tattoo, but for my next one I'm going to try and photograph it fairly often (like everyday through like the first couple weeks because that'd be cool watching it go through all the different phases imo and then like once a month once the majority of the healing is done) and just see how it changes over time
I like the older tattoos better, they look softer.
Lol never seen an awfully healed watercolour tattoo? I should show you mine! Not even a full year after I got it and it's almost 100% disappeared and the other half turned faded and bruisey looking
Oh nooo 😩
They must’ve not put the ink deep enough into your skin to hold. My watercolour looks just as bright as it did the day I got it and it’s nearly a year old. My artist told me she’d need to work it more than if it was just shading.
I've never seen a good healed watercolor tattoo.
Does it depend on where you have it? As in sun exposure, or lots of wear and tear areas?
@@andypayne2743 Yeah palms loos skin quicker. And i took one where my sock is and the sock rubbed it off
I’m getting my first tattoo on Friday! I’m super excited.
What are ya getting?
I don't know if you've watched one piece but there is a cyborg character who can shoot his fist out on a chain. I'd have his fist with a little bit of the chain palm sized on my upper arm.
Today? Tell us how it went and if you love it!
It is today! I'm sure I will love it!
I do like the video, just a suggestion it would have been better if you had the pictures bigger, with you on a smaller frame, so people can really see what they look like side by side. Cause there are colors that you say but i can't fully see. This is a comparison video, and having a better view would be really helpful. Just a suggestion =)
I think whoever did the green splash tattoo with the paw print made a smart move. It was sliiightly outlined, so when it was fresh the outline added depth and when it healed it prevented the edges from going too blurry and the shape was still fine
LOL Thanks for picking my tattoo! It's Black Widow!
That’s it !! Aha 💙
what is the artist's instagram? love it
What would you call that style? I love it! Also the Instagram of the artist would be lovely
@@defyResist I’m thinking comic tattoo, but I could be wrong!
I'm glad I went with black line work for my foot tattoo. I have a rosary around my ankle onto top flat of my foot and it's been there for 7 years now and still looks almost as good as the day I got it
Pleeeeaaase do more videos like this. They are very, very helpfull. Specialy since a lot of people hold themselves back from getting a tattoo because they think all tattoos age horribly.
Those foot tattoos though (Quinn's)!!! They look amazing! I have an appointment to finish my thigh piece tomorrow. It's a traditional style tattoo, and I'm actually excited for it to age. I love how traditional pieces look as they get older. It's almost like that's how they're supposed to look (in my opinion anyway.) I also have a pretty large black line-work tattoo on my back, and it's aged surprisingly well considering that it's 12 years old now.
Love the video but your watermelon earrings are everything as is the skeleton gentleman in the top hat behind you!
Ow thanks 💕
The lipstick and earrings with your blue hair are LOVE!
on the black widow tattoo i think its super impressive and cool that the smoke from the guns healed so grey and smoke-like despite what it looked like fresh
I have a black outline dolphin with different blue tones water colors on my ribs. It's about 2.5 - 3 years old. The water color is mostly smooth and still there. The black is so scarred I can feel it through my shirt and it has turned a weird hazy grey green color. I took care of it, never seen sun, use good lotion, all my other tattoos are smooth and perfect. (Different artist)
“Show me your feet”
Lauren: “ooh god noo”
😂😂😂
I love these videos and I really appreciate them because it’s so hard to find pictures of fully healed tattoos and it gives me a great idea of what to expect.
Also I’m like obsessed with l the colors going on in your look!!
The Blue is my favorite look so far. The eyebrows sell it. And with the shirt? Perfect. A style icon.
This was a well informed video! Thanks for making this. You’re completely right about the weight gain. Most of the time the tattoo enlarges proportionally; and for weight loss the same except shrinking. However there are always outliers that are important to consider with all tattoos.
If the Tattoo or line(s) fall on a *post tattoo* stretch mark then there is a high chance that the pigment in that skin will fill the entirety of the stretch mark. This happened with one of my clients and it distorted the image to an extent that we had to add onto/cover a portion of the old design.
Though tattoos are permanent, they can be malleable!
Weight loss can cause some lines to become too close together and thusly effect the aging process of them.
The only times I have experienced the “lopsided” effect from bodily changes were from pregnancy and muscle mass.
In the case of pregnancy, everyBODY is different. Some people’s tattoos look exactly the same and sometimes the skin doesn’t sit the same way afterwards which can leave the design warped. Most people fix this with a touch/cover up depending on severity.
And lastly, muscles and their dimensions. Muscles obvi sit under the skin and when a person either greatly increases or decreases their mass it can effect how and where the skin sits on the body. Because muscles are more dimensional and grow in different proportions to each other than fat, a person is more likely to experience warping with this changing body type. Muscle mass can fluctuate through a person’s lifetime and is an important factor to consider when planning a tattoo.
Can you do a video over tattoo styles? I’ve looked online but I’m still a little confused over the differences between a few styles
Love your makeup! I'm too afraid to use bold colors personally, I usually stick to neutral/ fall colors myself!
One thing that I think that could make your eyes pop even more is if you ran the eyeshadow under your bottom lashes too, to kind of connect everything! 💖
I tend to not blend out my lower lash line too, it's a preference thing. I'll do it sometimes, but w light colors like yellow, I usually don't, it makes my eyes look smaller.
Seriously this blue look is made for you
You make me miss having blue hair!
I watch your channel :D
You've talked about this before, but briefly. I'm so glad you went into detail!
Love videos on this subject, thanks for another great one! I don't have any of this type myself, but I really like the way some tattoos with fewer bold outlines fade into the skin a little. It creates a cool organic effect, almost like the image has appeared by itself *from* the skin, iyswim! It's the same as with tattoos on dark skin; the fact that they blend in more with the surrounding skin is just a different look, not a tattoo that doesn't look right. Bold = awesome, subtle = awesome; it's all good!
The only potential pitfall I see really is when darker colours within it are placed in such a way that when the rest starts to blend into its background more, the whole thing looks uneven. But I'm guessing that could be fairly easily sorted by adding a few more lines/areas of dark colour at a later date anyway. And as we come to understand more about how watercolour tattoos age, we're only going to get better at predicting results from the start and taking that into account when designing them.
I really like your yellow eyeshadow with the blue eyebrows. It's very aesthetic💙💛
Yes please to more videos about how tattoos age! This is so interesting and educational.
Awesome! Would love to see people's aged tattoos and learn about their healing process/maintenance
Thank you for showing a bit of watercolor tattoos. I'm very interested in getting one.
I love the bunny one. All of them still look very nice even after 3-7yrs which is awesome.
Wow that golden eyeshadow is so cool :)
The dove tattoo looks AMAZING healed.
Oh i love ur hair, brow and earring combo!!
Who did Quinn’s tattoos? Gorgeous xx
Great video lauren! Love this series, pls keep em comin 😻
I've been waiting for this video, I'm so glad you made it, I really appreciate that! I am getting my second tattoo soon and I've been wondering about this exact topic. I swear, I could watch this kind of video all day long. The realism portrait is Drop dead Fred btw, a hilarious silly movie from the 90's.
Your makeup is so fun!
Interesting video, really enjoyed it :)
i love the topic of this video (and the other 😄)!! Glad you filmed another one. Can people only send you their tattoos over FB? Do they know what video it will be used for? Can't wait for the next videos with subscriber tattoos 😍 its always sooo interesting with the photos.. sorry for my english 😅 also i live for your blue hair n eyebrows
Yes and yes! I put a post out saying I’m doing a video on whatever topic and if people want to volunteer their pictures of their tattoos that would be great! 😁
oooh i'd love to do that too but don't have fb 😣 do you post that on IG too?
I usually don't like watercolor tattos, but I have to say that the paw print tattoo looks really nice! :) Even better than in the fresh pic, tbh
Those earrings are so cute!! 🍉🍉🍉
My watercolour tattoo, sadly, didn't heal great. A bunch of the pigment completely disappeared.
It's strange though, my friend got a tattoo from the same artist at the same time, and hers healed great.
Mine was on my foot, and I used numbing cream (which I will never do again). Hers was on her ribs and no numbing cream. None of my other tattoos have had this happen. I also know that some people's skin doesn't hold pigment well, but I feel like the numbing cream fucked it up
The artist has posted other healed photos and his tattoos always look good.
I really feel it has more to do with placement and your skin sometimes than the artist. I have two tattoos that I got done with friends at the same time on my body. One is black work and is faded and blown out, I've gotten it re-inked, it's just not looking great. The friend with the same tattoo looks nearly identical to the day we got them.
My other matching tatt I got looks amazing. It's a trad style and looks amazing, my friend got hers in a different spot and it's not nearly as nice. Hers didn't heal as well as mine. I really feel like it can come down to luck too. I love all my tattoos, but I accept that they change over time. And I'm a person who is happy to go get re-inked and factor that into my design and placement decisions.
@@jessica87au Like I said, my skin holds onto pigment fairly well. My other foot tattoo is black linework and it looks fine (as do the lines to my watercolour piece).
I honestly don't understand.
I am very willing to get it redone, but I want to go back to the same artist and he's in a different country than me (no one else in my area has quite the same style). Maybe one day!
Thanks for the video! Please make more of these, I appreciate them & find them very helpful ❤️
Honey Shane Dawson’s boyfriend ryland Adams just did a video getting a tattoo love to see your reaction! Loved this video really interesting to see how tattoos age xx
First of all I LOVE this blue pink look on you. Love it. Secondly it would be really cool for you to show us a part 2 on this but with your own tattoos. Sort of a tattoo story but aged. (This tattoo brand new and now its x-amount of years old and go thru all your aged pieces) forgive me if you've done this and I just haven't seen it yet. Cheers :)
This hair looks gorgeous on you! And the video is really cool and interesting, thanks :)
Certain areas need to be touched up sooner than others obviously. The head, I've pretty much had to do two passes because ink doesnt hold well on the head skin. Your hair is thicker so your follicles are wider, so it pushes more ink out during the healing process. My head will be lightening down during healing, but anything on the neck or face(other than the head) stay VERY dark. Color, especially whites/yellows lose so much vibrancy during healing. And it also depends on how you heal it. Some artist will say, no petroleum based products, and use just non scented lotion. But Neosporin has a cream/lotion antibiotic that I use for the first 3-4 days, then once it starts to peel move over to lotion but dont overwash or wash too hard when its scabbing otherwise you're gonna pull out the ink yourself. You kinda have to let it sit and scab and let it fall off naturally the best you can and it will retain more color. Artists cant tell you this, because some people are just dirty and will get infections but if you're clean and you're past the inflammation portion (first 4 days), leave that fucker alone, dont wash it and let the scabs fall off. You can kinda see my Goddess Kali in my avatar. That was one day old and now that its healed its WAY lighter than the 91 Freeway sign I have tattooed on my neck. I did the "neglect tek" on my Lord Shiva piece on the top of my head and it healed just as dark as the 91 Fwy, so now I need another pass on my Kali to match the Shiva to the 91. The Kali healed so light m, you cant tell it's a crown of skeletons anymore on her head. It lightened about 50% of what's in the pic. I have a 2" x 3" spot on the back of my neck, I'm gonna put an evil eye in and then I'll have him guy give Kali one more pass and my dome will be done!! After 20 years, I finally finished my back piece this year too!! Lol. Today it seems like the millenials and the people that wish they were millenials are getting full suits in less than a year!! I just watched a guy go into a shop for anybody suit and had "ZERO concept" so now he's covered in black chicken scratch all over!! Tattoing was a warrior preparation in the Polynesian Islands. Tattoos are serious and were a rite of passage. The wrong one can get you killed in my neighborhood, so seeing it turn into a fad is very cringeworthy, to the hardcore enthusiasts. Notice all the "stars/celebs" of the past 20 or so years are getting "blackout" cover ups and shit, to hide the faddish tattoos they got years ago, you know, the flames, the barn wire, etc. Lol All gimic/faddish tattoos. So what do they do when the "blackout " fad goes away? Spend 2 million in laser removal surgeries?? You're f'ed!! I always thought of tattoos as badges of my life experiences, from the Good to the Evil, it's all there and only I can decode the symbology.
My watercolor tattoo is the tattoo I get complimented on the most. People will stop me on the street to ask where I got it. It’s about 6 years old at this point and I love it!
Omg I’m living for this color palette on you
I have a large watercolour piece on my back which I used little cream for during healing still looks incredibly vibrant. I start my sleeve in September too
Getting my first tattoo on Monday, so I gotta know what to expect in 10 years
I think the first one the cat, looks better now, very snappy chic!
Great video! I have large script on my thigh in a typewriter font and it's blown out a bit after only 18 months but I actually like it better because it looks even more like how it would if it was written on a real typewriter haha!! Also where are those earrings from? I'm in love with them!
Love this series! I'm considering a first tattoo, basically just want a tiny letter 'B' on my inner ankle, but the idea of it blurring over time is kinda putting me off! Would choosing a finer/thinner font prevent blurring as much? Or is it inevitable?! xx
Caroline J it's kind of funny, because the smaller and finer the font is, the worse it blurs out.
Unfortunately it’s inevitable 💙
The smaller it is the less legible it'll be especially if it's very fine line
I have a blue pink and purple tattoo on my thigh that's healed beautifully
Its as bright as the day i got it. If i had social media i would def show you
I've got several that are 28-29 years old and still look pretty good. Some fading, some spreading but not bad.
what do you think determines lines being blown out over time. Do you think its application of the tattoo, the persons body, healing practices? Some tattoos the line work still looks amazing years later and others not so much.
That's more of a water splash tattoo and not watercolor, (the dog paw) there is some technical application difference like using lines but in the splash color and not black lines. You dont water down the ink. You can get a similar look and give it longevity . My mentor tattooed for 47 years so I got the best education on tattoo longevity possible. I'm a Tattoo artist in Olympia wa
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Your earrings! They are some of the best earrings I've ever seen!
My second tattoo is in a watercolor style and compared to my first tattoo (black and gray) it held up a lot better than my first one but that's probably because I almost never expose my second tattoo to the sunlight since its quite high on my thigh whereas my first tattoo is on my shoulder blade.
Love this topic!
@treacle tatts - Late finding this video/your channel, so hopefully you’ll see this! I’ve been planning for several years to get 3 small birds tattooed in black on my inner wrist (to symbolize my kids). I went last week to a highly reputable tattoo place to finally get it and they told me they wouldn’t do the tattoo for me because they knew it wouldn’t age well and I wouldn’t like it 10+ years from now so they didn’t feel right doing it - not as small as I wanted it, WHERE I wanted it. They were very nice and apologetic about it and I thanked them for their honesty. I was really disappointed, though, as it would have meant a lot to me and I’d thought carefully about it for so long. You seem quite knowledgeable - do you agree that tattoo would not age well?
I know this is a year old, but they were right it wouldn't age well, did they suggest doing them bigger or in a different place? Because I would take that recommendation if so
@@Rose-jz6sx Thanks for the reply - I’d forgotten I’d commented here! They did - they suggested larger and on my forearm. Looking back, I’m so grateful for their straightforwardness and that I didn’t have it done. I’m still considering getting a forearm one, but life and then the crazy state of the world have put lots of things on hold. Anyway, thanks for affirming that! 🙌🏼
My foot tattoo faded as it healed (it was light blue and very dainty), but I like it... it healed amazing well
I have both of my feet tattooed (I just did my left foot two days ago🤣) and oh my god is it painful getting a tattoo on the foot 😭
You look amazing with blue hair by the way! 😍
I like how the green paw print watercolor tattoo healed, like yah the black is a little patchy but in my opinion it makes it look more like a watercolor painting like you know what I mean?
I absolutely love watercolour tattoos but I'm so scared about the aging of them 😣
couldn’t you get touch ups? sorry if i’m being ignorant
Super cute and pretty Coraline vibes with your hair and makeup!
Could you possibly make a new post in your Facebook group so I can share my new versus healed tattoo?I have one with yellow and white in it that's 7 years old and I thin its held up really well.Thanks :)
Does a tattoo ever really settle into the skin completely? In other words, is there an approximate time in years where the tattoo stops fading/changing for the most part? (excluding changes to the body such as weight loss)
Diana Montero I am not an expert but I‘ll give it a try: Fading means, that the small particles of the color get transported „away“ (lymph nodes). The bigger particles stay where they are. Over time particles will break due to sunlight exposure and so the fading will continue. I think that on parts of the body that are not exposed to the sunlight, the fading might stop after a while (maybe a few years?), except for fading due to rubbing on the skin (e.g. on the soles of feet or between fingers).
@@annaturba I thought I read it never stops fading, the particles are different sized based on the colors. Some colors like red and white are smaller so your body is able to remove them to the liver. Bigger particles can degrade over time as the body attacks it, eventually reducing their size so they can be carried away to the liver. Black mainly a carbon based ink, does not get taken out of the body, since we are carbon based beings. Obviously other things tend to reduce the size of the ink particles aswell, the sun, certain oils or alcohol be placed on it.
I actually like how that first one aged. It's more like watercolor? Or pastel. Idk
I love your colorful styles
hi enjoyed the vid but i have to get this of my chest you look like if hayley williams' production crew fell asleep doing her makeup haha
or crank franks gender swap snapchat filter
You really didn’t have to get that off your chest. Did your mother not teach you better than to be so unnecessarily rude?
Love ur look especially the cute earings
Late to the party but I must have those earrings!
I’m never going back to the first place I got a tattoo. After a year the tattoo had blown out greyed out and is super patchy in places.
Most people don't put sunblock over their tattoos when they go outside that's why most tattoos fade
Sun accelerates fading but it will fade no matter what
Yay! Love these videos :-)
Should you get tattoos with smaller lines so that when they get thicken they just end up closer to the size you want them? I know you need enough space between the lines so they don't blur out too much.
I've wanted a black line tattoo so badly, but I hate the fact they don't stay thin and crisp 🙄 So I've scratched that idea..
If you have a good artist, a good placement they will stay thin and crisp. Never had a problem with mine...
Where did you get your earnings? I love them, there so funky !!
the foot ones probably hold up well because they are usually covered up by socks.
I wanna know how everyone kept their yellows I’ve got a tattoo and yellow is gone
Really cool video
Do you have any sort of advice for tattoo placement? I want to get my mothers name tattooed somewhere and I want her name to be my first tattoo, but I can’t think of any placement that would look good and not be visible. (I’m in school to be an accountant, so I can’t have anything visible.)
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I got a tattoo but he went over the lines and ignored some dot shading and did some too deep causing it to scab and pull ink out so I dunno I’m kinda pissed