What can tattooing over scars do?
- Disguise scar with color, shape, design, and placement
- Create beautiful work of art from a painful experience
- Celebrate survival and health and Life
- Reclaim body after illness or injury
- Add femininity after mastectomy surgery
- It cannot change the texture of scar
- The tattoo will not erase the scar
- The skin may hold the ink differently: lines may be less defined, and color may need a second session.
- Still, there is so much that can be done within these limits
- By using color, layout, and other design principles to create art that will disguise the scar. The elements of the tattoo design draw the eye from the scar, making any differences is texture less obvious.
- Sometimes irk reeds to be re-applied or lines may not keep shape as well as other skin. Both are easily remedied by design and placement.
- Very rarely, a keliod maybe irritated, but all caution is used in every tattoo.
- Experience suggests designs of organic origin work best for covering scars with tattoos. Images with depth and variety of color give the eye lots to keep it busy. Still, even simple line drawings can do the trick.
- Generally, lettering, tribal, and Celtic are less successful for complete covering as there is negative space where the scar is visible. (Negative space is the empty parts where skin is visible)