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From first hand experience tattooing over scar tissue is major painful (it hurt more than my entire back) and hard to keep the ink in. I had skin graphs on my leg when i was a kid and used a tattoo to cover it up around 15 years afterwards. It takes a long time for scar tissue to heal and is a min of 12 mths.
Even then it was hard for the artist to get the ink in and it required some major touchups.
Whilst I am happy with the end product there are parts of the skin that are still sore to touch months after the work was done as the fresh scar tissue is still settling over old. (My leg piece is in my folder)
My advice would be this if you wanted a ink/scarification combo;
Get the outline done in double thickness but leave room on the outer edge to widen if necessary.
This means that the outline is done prior to the scarification not afterwards as scarification is not exact science on how it will scar and the neatness can be a bit of an issue (get it done by an expert).
If you have a couple of mil outline thickness you have room for the scar tissue to fit inside of the outline. You can always build a fresh outline further out from the scar area.
Getting ink filled in on a scarification piece is frankly not a wise move it is not a graph with skin going over it but a raw wound of knotted scar tissue. This will tend to hold ink poorly and lead to discolouration and blow outs which it is best to get an outline before cutting out the inside shape.
Take care
Matthew
So i could get the piece done first then do the scarification around it? I read that scarification takes a while, I’m more than willing to do that first and wait a year or more before getting regular in on/around it. Thank you for your input, It helps quite a bit!!
How many crap ideas can be incorporated into one tattoo? A UV tribal tattoo with scarification :rolleyes:
It was a theoretical example, i have no intention of using all three on one piece. A combination of UV and standard ive seen done well before, and i’d be interested to see a scarification/standard ink combo, I just wasn’t sure if working with that much scar tissue with regular ink was possible or not
First off, “thickening” your blood probably isn’t a great idea for your health….that being said, i have a suggestion that shouldn’t do much damage at all, BUT idk how well it would work. I sell blood plasma for extra dough, and one way to make the blood flow a little easier is to drink plenty of fluids a day or two before. Now, if this makes the blood flow easier, I would guess that drinking less fluids would have the opposite effect. I wouldn’t stop drinking fluids completely in that time period, but maybe if you drank less water/pop/whatever a day or two before your sitting, your blood would be a little less fluid? I dont know if it would work well enough to make a difference, but its a thought and it would do minimal damage to your system to be slightly dehydrated for a day or so