So I’ve decided to get lyrics tattooed across my feet. 3 words on one foot, 3 on the other. But the thing is I want to be able to read it. I’m getting the tattoo for myself, not others so I want to be able to see it you know..? Is it uncommon or weird to get tattoos facing you?
Also I’ve been hearing some things about feet tattoos. Like they will most likely peel off or chip off, rub off, etc… that’ll they’ll run and things of that nature. How true are these comments? (This will be my first tattoo).
Thanks 🙂
Its not uncommon to get tattoos facing you. I personally find it a little odd…not really sure why, I guess its just personal opinion, but its not uncommon. I do a lot of tattoos facing the client. At least a quarter of the wrist and forearm jobs.
As for your second question, there is some truth in it. I can’t really explain the medical reason for it. There is a lot of rubbing on the foot. Shoes, socks, sandal straps whatever, and the skin is fairly thin there if that is the right way to describe it. Most tattoos on hands feet and wrists in the lowest, “joint area” fade out. The more your shoes rub on the area, the more likely it is to fade, but nearly all of them have to be touched up from time to time.
My shop does free touch ups regardless of the reason behind it fading, and I’ve got one girl who came to me with a foot tattoo she wanted fixed. Then three months later she came back to me to get my work touched up because it faded. The problem is that she wears sandals and her sandal strap runs right across the middle of the tattoo. The only place that needed touch up was right where the sandal strap rubs on it.
Okay thanks. I’ve read up on foot tattoo’s and most all say not to wear anything that will cover or rub against your feet while its healing. (shoes, socks, ect..) After its healed and I wear socks and full coverage shoes again, will that tattoo still fade?
Also thanks for the opinion on placement. I think I’m gonna get it facing away from me. All the ones I’ve seen are facing away and it just kind of makes sense when I really think about it.
i have two tattoos, one on each foot. the one on my right foot covers the top of it and was trouble from the beginning. it toke a long time to heal and lost lots of ink in the porcess. it also has faded alot and it is 7 months old. but on my foot the tattoo is on the side facing out and it healed beautifully. no problems what so ever. i got it in april and it hasnt faded or anything. but i have had people tell me that tats on top of ur feet do wear off easier.
Yes, as long as I’m in business, as many times as it takes, for any reason. Here’s why.
Let me say that I spend 2 hours putting a tattoo on you, and it looks good. But you go home and don’t take care of it. When it fades and heals poorly you come to me to get a touch up.
Now either I can do it, or I don’t. Either I can charge, or I don’t.
If I don’t do it, or if I charge and you don’t want to…or can’t pay, then you run around with my work on you and when people ask “Where did you get that tattoo?” You say, I got it from Steven at New Covenant Ink.
Do you think the person asking is going to care that you messed it up? Are you going to admit it? Or are you going to say something like…Well it looked real good when I first got it, but after it healed, it looked like this.
Is that person going to come to me for work? It doesn’t matter that it was your fault. If my work looks like crap it ruins my business. Therefore I do whatever it takes to make sure my work looks good.
Does it set me back? Of course it does. It takes time, supplies, and sometimes its downright annoying, but I do it anyway. Because of that people come to me. They bring work to me from other shops that the other shops won’t touch up. They come to me to fix bad work, they come to me to get work, and when they come back to get touch ups done they don’t get any grief behind it, they sit down and get touched up, and everyone here knows that.
That’s why I do it.
Awesome policy really.
Recently I switched to a different brand of inks for certain colors. I won’t name the brand. I wanted a deeper, bolder red, and this ink comes highly recomended. I used a deep red on a set of boxing gloves I did on a guy. Well he leaves and I hire on this new guy, Mike. Mike tells me that even though these inks are good a certain color of red heals pinkish red. It was the exact color I used.
So this guy comes back in a couple of weeks later and he’s like “I don’t know what happened but my red faded.” I tell him without even blinking, “come on over and lets touch it up.” So we sit down and I use a bright Red that I know works well. He’s happy, no problem. He never know it was my fault because my policy covers EVERY reason. Period. I didn’t think I had to worry about this ink because its such a widely used brand, and no other color does that, just that one particular brand of red. I haven’t used the color since. Its set aside for when I WANT a pinkish tone of red.
We make mistakes too, and its a scratcher mistake. I should have never used the color until I knew how it would heal, but I trusted the brand. I still use the inks, just not that color.
I also like the Redrum much better than the Monthly Red. I thought the Monthly Red was a bit too watery requiring more product than others to complete an area.
Someone mentioned about red turning pink. I remember a few years ago there was a company called unique Art Supply, now out of business. They had a red called “EZ Red” which I loved! it literally flew into the skin on almost everyone. Deep, bright, smooth and perfect consistency.
The catch was the healing process. On almost everyone, after the tattoo was about a week old, the ink would appear to turn pink for up to 3 weeks during healing. And healing took forever it seemed. The entire tattoo would be healed 2 weeks before the red would heal. Only when the red was finally healed did the deep bright red fully show again. It was almost as if the dreaded “Allergic reaction to red” was about to set in, but never did. The irony in it was it was also the only brand of red at that time which nobody was allergic to, at least no one I ever heard of. I still have alot of it on my arms after 15-18 years still very dark and bright on a first pass.
Back on topic about the feet tattoos, this seems to be another one of those “things to do” with tattoos these days. When I first started feet tattoos were considered one of the “Oddities” The Oddities were anything on the face, neck, hands or feet. Those areas were most commonly tattooed if someone was running out of space to put fresh ink. These days however it’s a completely different story.
In an average week more than 200 people will pass through my studio asking the usual questions about tattoos they’re interested in. Of those 200, at least 30% will inquire about tattooing the neck, their hands or the top of the foot. Most of these people have very few or even no tattoos on their body. Yet their first choice for location is an “Oddity”
I’ll tell them the usual disadvantages of choosing these areas, fast fading, slow healing, more likely to become damaged during healing, increased pain, and more time consuming. And of course the social consequences of having tattoos in areas that cannot be easily hidden. I personally charge 50% higher for tattooing in these areas to make them think twice before committing to it. I still have no shortages of clients willing to pay extra to place them there week after week.
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