I have three decent sized tattoos and I love them all…including the one I got a couple days ago. The “problem” is that it appears a bit too dark. It is my first black/gray piece, so I am not sure what expect. I realize that tattoos fade, etc as I have a few others, but it just seems the shading is too dark. Any before/after pics? Thanks so much!
Hi. Can you upload some pics? My tattoo is black/grey, but I really don’t have any good pics to show how it faded after healing. A lot of my pictures were actually taken on video. I have some cell phone shots, which aren’t good and a couple half-way decent photos, but nothing that great. Mine was a bit dark at first, but I never thought it was too dark. I’d like to see yours if you can get some pics up! 🙂
How can seeing someone else’s stuff help you? You need to post a pic of your own piece and the people on here who actually do tattoos can tell you if it’s too dark. I suspect that either you are embarrassed of the work done on you and are trying to see if anyone else has crappy tats, or you don’t actually have any ink and are just trying to get pics posted for some reason? Sounds pretty suspicious.
LOL…ok whatever.
I was hoping to see some before/after of how the tattoos healed as I heard that the tattoo shading will lighten as the skin under heals. My understanding is that the skin under is bruised and red which shows through the shading causing the piece to look darker.
I am certainly not ashamed of my tattoo…in fact, I think it is awesome. Just seems the shading is lightly too dark and I had heard it will lighten up a bit.
Here is a pic. It is on my calf….obviously this is in pretty good light and right after it was done. 2 days out, it looks a little darker and has a brownish/red tint
Thanks for the feedback. I am into biking and the outdoors, so the swirly thing was my attempt at adding the sun to a mechanical syle piece.
Yeah, I am cool with the blacks…would like the shaded areas to lighten a little, but all in all I am cool with it. Gets a lot of compliments. Just hoping people with more black/grey experience could tell me what to expect.
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