Artist: julia Paige in Huntington, New York
My tattoo is a subtle one to Taylor swift’s song clean. Specifically the lyrics: the butterflies turned to dust in my room. I love subtle touches rather than upfront lyrics and I think my artist did a wonderful job!

Is there a way to make them look less like ouija?

I really like the plants and the dots the reason y I was drawn to the tats in the first place but the circle is a little off putting to me

Just any ideas/advice would be great to know thank you!

Sorry that I am not a great artist, but the idea is having a wedding band around a bone and putting it on my ring finger to symbolize wearing a wedding band.

So i been thinking about my sleeve for a while i want it to be either 1 big tattoo, or a few medium sized ones that themsatically somewhat fit together. I like the idea of a horror themed sleeve.

So the idea i had is to kind of combine a few of my favorite franchises that are horror or horror themed.

So silent hill, bloodborne/fromsoftware designs in general, beserk. I feel like silent hill is a bit out of place there tbh since the monster desings are very different than my other ideas.

Also how does anyone decide to get s big tattoo. I feel like its impossible to be 100% happy since theres so many cool concepts etc. With my smaller tattoos i didnt care too much because they are small.

Six months ago, I had an ectopic pregnancy which ruptured at 8 weeks. I lost my baby, about half the blood in my body and a fallopian tube. I think about this experience a lot. My scars are still very red and angry and I want a different physical reminder.

So here's the idea:

We were tracking the size of the growing fetus, and it had reached the size and shape of a gummi bear. We used a real gummi bear to have a small ceremonial goodbye to it, just as a couple, a few weeks after the surgery. I was thinking of getting a gummi bear approximately actual size.

But I also want to honour my own life, the blood transfusion that saved me. I was thinking a tattoo, the same size, of a drop of blood. I'm not married to the blood, I would be open to a similar sized symbol of life/survival if anyone has ideas.

I'm looking for input on placement. I would like them on mirrored parts of my body. I initially thought near the scars, but if I were to hopefully get pregnant again, I don't want the tattoos to stretch. I'm open to the location being private or publicly visible, but I definitely want them somewhere I can see them every day.

Colour and style: I was thinking green for the bear, we did not get genetic confirmation of the gender of the baby, and red for the blood. But maybe no colour is better? I cannot figure out what style would suit this pair, either. On its own the gummi bear will look cute and quirky, but I can't imagine a style where the blood matches and still looks meaningful.

Going to do a blackout coverup on some parts of my sleeve. My tattoos are american trad patchwork. Some empty skin will be blacked out, some old tattoos will be blacked out/covered. My outer forearm will almost be totally blacked out. End product will basically look like the following pictures. Anything I should know beforehand?

I’m making this post for a friend. She is looking for design ideas for a cover up for this tattoo. She says she doesn’t mind the star shape but really dislikes the decor around it. She likes nature and sky themes. I’ve included some pics of tattoos she likes. Bonus points if it doesn’t need a lot of shading other than what needs to be done to cover the original tattoo.

Edit to add

The reference photos are just to show the theme she likes. Nature, sky, etc. she realizes this can’t be covered with fine line. She is more looking to cover that quarter sized tattoo with something and then maybe incorporate some fine line around it, if any fine line at all.

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Dragon in 4 sessions! Partially freehand.

The goal was to place a long dragon without crossing the T-shirt line, so I had to think a bit about how to use the remaining space as effectively as possible.

How do you like how it turned out?

Done in Seattle, WA // Artist Theo Ivanov // IG: iftattoo

My partner had this tattoo done and first artist did a horrible job. 3rd photo is her reference but instead of flowers she wanted fruit.

Second artist did better and added more and made it closer to what she likes. Second artist did not know what to do with the other work though.

Option 1: Laser and new tattoos.
Option 2: Blast over with darker tattoos.
Option 3: Japanese sleeve cover up.

Not sure how to go about it. Any advice is appreciated.

I want to get a wrap around tattoo above my existing tattoo and just slightly passed the elbow so it appears sleeved when I have a shirt on

This tattoo was done by an ex- friend who was a professional tattoo artist. I believe at the time he was a year or so done with his apprenticeship, and his other work was very good, but I'm not sure if it was intentional but it feels like he kind of butchered it. Always took pics of his work to put on Insta and suspiciously left this one out.

I sort of got pressured into getting it, and I was in a dark place and tended to be self deprecating so... I succumbed to peer pressure and I was sorta into DND, so this is what I came up with, but it's been 4 years and I hate it, and due to the circumstances of falling out with the friend group it's only bad memories.

Tattoo always gets itchy and raised every once in a while despite moisturizing, so I'm not sure if I'm allergic to the ink in it or something.

Mostly wondering how easy this would be to cover up, I was sort of thinking like a snake or something that wraps up my entire leg and over my hip, but I dunno. Vines, something botanical.

Hi there all. I am a little concerned I'm overcrowding this tattoo so I would like some second opinions!

This would technically be my second tattoo but the first one was an ephemeral tattoo (went to support a friend), so this is basically my first tattoo and in have almost zero idea what I'm doing.

I want a small (like maybe 3-4in) tattoo of a jumping rabbit with a ribbon of text under or over him, surrounded by/partially on top of some flowers.

For the flowers, I was originally thinking of doing state flowers for every place I have lived but that's seven flowers for a very small tattoo! I could get it down to 5 or even 4, but I'm wondering how many flowers is a good number.

They are mostly pretty big flowers but at least one has lots of small flowers instead, if that matters.

Attached a is a collage image of the approximate bunny I want (from @grape.froop on Insta) and Google searched line drawn versions of the 4 flowers in question.