Kayden

Yes, looks normal.  Just healing.

I tell my inexperienced clients to pretend that the tattoo doesn’t exist for a month.  After a month of healing, you will know what the tattoo looks like.  In between now and then, it will be scabby, flaky, shiny, milky, blurry.... that’s just the healing process.

I am a tattoo artist of 17 years, I have seen this happen through the years... including on my ex wife.

My theory is that people tend to see this reaction, years later, if they have a slight allergy, and their immune system has recently been at war with a virus (or in your case super charged by supplements).

Its annoying, but nothing to worry about.

I find that a good Cortizone cream helps, especially Cortizone for Psoriasis.  If it gets worse or itchy, take some Benadryl.

Yeah I've been reading about this BS. Someone loosely pointed the finger at Eternal, stating that they had just helped put a Texas Ink company out of business.... Anyone have more good info on this?

I get your point... I know the game... Is not my first rodeo... and I am in it for the long run... But it is the first time I get a piece that a small portion did not come out the way I would like it to be. I am no complaining, but just looking for options/opinions/ideas on how other people have handle a situation like this...

To be honest you are the type of artist I would like to avoid. It is scary to know that if you do a piece and your customer just was not fully satisfied with a small portion of your work and it is definitely fixable that your take is "deal with it"

Thanks all for your help and opinions.

So now new words are being added, "definitely fixable." Wasn't in the mix before. If it's fixable then yeah just fix it. Or better yet just don't mess it up in the first place. Without pictures of the tattoo that we are talking about, we are just spitballing generalities. I would never ever say that I woulnt fix something if for some reason it was messed up, and fixable. My point was, again because we have no pictures to look at, that in general, my artists had less talent and different artistic visions than I had hoped. And sometimes that's just the case. I would imagine if its the case of not having a line connect, then the artist would just fix it, and there would be no need for discussion, if it was "definitely fixable".

I'm a tattoo artist. I have a ton of tattoos. I don't think that I have a single tattoo on my body that turned out the way that I hoped it would. I have even lasered off an entire sleeve that was a cover up of another sleeve that I did as a young kid.... And the my new sleeve after my laser, kinda sucks, it's not really what I was going for. Close, but certainly not great.

Point being, you just deal with it. It's part of the game. I have never stood up from a tattoo chair and thought that the artist did a bad ass job. Probably because I have just gotten tattooed by people that I work with rather than seeking out the bad asses that would certainly do a great tattoo. I'm not complaining, I don't sit around regretting them.... I'm just saying it happens. And there's not much to be done about it.

For this, I used photoshop. Just drag the pictures onto the same surface, make a layer underneath the color that you want, and then take a big soft edge eraser and erase around the edges.

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/dallastattoo/14060472751/

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And this is done with Picstitch on the phone. Super easy.

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/dallastattoo/15266526882/

Did this one today. Kayden DiGiovanni at The Skin Art Gallery in Addison TX.

I had a funny one about 5 years ago driving from Dallas to Shreveport. I stop for gas in this hick town, and the lady behind the counter says, "Boy you got some nerve walkin' around like that." She points at the bat tattooed on my throat, "Everyone knows that's some Nazi shit on your neck, and in Texas it's illegal to even have a tattoo on your face or neck. You could be arrested for just standing here with that on your neck."

I explained that I wasn't racist by any means, my tattoo wasn't associated with that, and that I'm a tattoo artist in Texas and know the laws. The very idea was ridiculous. She starts arguing and threatens to call the cops. I just shook my head and left. I was pretty pissed for a few minutes, then I just started laughing. It was so silly. Just pure ignorance, and making up her own ideas of symbolism and laws.

Right on man. I'm in the Dallas area as well. And Alan does my laser removal. Just finished lasering off my entire left forearm, now its time to do the other one!

My name is Kayden. I'm 37, tattooer in Dallas Texas.

I live in Ft. Worth, tattoo in Addison. (I don't say "work" in Addison because I haven't worked a day in 10 years.)

Tattooing and my family are my entire life.

If you count my hand poking as a kid, then I have been tattooing 27 years. If you count from when I got really serious about tattooing, then I've been tattooing for 20 years. If you only count years in a shop, then it's been 10 years. ....I always have a hard time answering that "how long" question, I usually just answer, "my whole life".