I'm starting to color in a few of my tats. A couple of questions about tattoo colors.. First one is if anyone knows what colors you can cover black with. The other one is whether or not ink colors change color value at all between the bottle and the skin, that is.. do any colors get darker or lighter after application?
many colors will change based on your skin tone and i think anything can be covered by black ink...but i'm not sure
which colours can completely cover black? as in for a coverup or worrying about running over black during colour? if the latter, i've never really had an issue as for colour agree with above - it really does depend on skin tone/application/mixing etc. and don't worry if the colours look really muddy from day 2 until healed. always takes a while to heal and settle in
Actually it was a cover up I had in mind. I have this flame with a yin yang in the middle. I want to cover up the yin yang by filling in the flame with a color if that's possible. http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr216/grooveleopard/flametat.png
Ahh, cover up. Its a special art in and of itself. Its not so much the color choice that makes a cover-up succesfull. Its the technique. White ink used properly will cover black better than even black ink used incorrectly. Place a penny under a piece of paper and color that spot completely with a pencil. Its black, but you still see the penny. The same thing happens when a tattoo cover up is approached incorrectly. As for the proper way to do it, thats something thats hard to answer without showing in person. My advice is to hold off on it till youve been shown how. Cover-up is hard enough without having to cover-up a cover-up of a cover-up.
