Jimbob

Thanks. Had to suffer a bit of a weird haircut for it. But hopefully be all ok once goes through healing process and hair grows down a bit. Lol 

So this happened today. Think might have got job done. Hopefully still covers scar once healed and faded down ! 

So had head shaved today for tattoo tomorrow. Too late to go back now. Hope it works.  

No probs. Looks really good. Booked in for mine next week so fingers crossed 

Have u got a pic of it mate healed up to see. Thanks. 

Thanks for that. Quite interesting and positive 

22 hours ago, Amaranthe said:

I'll get one of my mates to take a picture hopefully tomorrow.

Did you manage to get a recent pic of that scar cover up mate ? 

Still looks good. Have you got a recent pic of it once everything has died down and faded off ? Whatever design my artist comes up with will all be blacks and whites to keep in theme with rest of Tatts so just hope it covers just as good. 🤞🏻

49 minutes ago, Amaranthe said:

There's no difference where the scar tissue is, no shiny appearance and no ink bleeding out.

I'm UK based and my artist is Eddie Hardiman from County Durham

Thanks. They have done a good job. Looks like he blackened it out first then went over with colour. Covered well tho. My worry is because it’s in hair although gonna keep it shaved down at back as u see slight hair follicles around scar but none in scar you might notice a different appearance to tattoo. 

5 hours ago, Amaranthe said:

If you have a good tattoo artist he/she should be able to cover that scar very easily, here's the scar I had covered: 

Thanks for reply.  Looks good. Have you noticed any difference where the ink is over scar as in ink bleeding out or not taking as well or having like a shiny appearance ? Can’t see anything from pics just wondering in person. Also do you mind saying who artist is just for me to look into. Thanks. 

27 minutes ago, cyoonit123 said:

Scars can be covered in my opinion but as the texture/skin/a lot of things really are different with a scar, your artist has to be quite good and only he will really know if he can or can't. I had my scars on my arm covered but they were not very deep so there really wasn't an issue. 

Try to see if your artist has done any work on other scars or cover ups. My advice would be to find someone who specializes in this kinda thing. 

 

Just my 2 cents

Thanks for reply. Artist had said he has covered loads of scars. My problem is the fact that it’s in hair. It’s the outcome of how it will look if hair grows a even a little bit around scar area and obviously no hair will be growing in scar area. Will you be able to notice a difference in tattoo where scar runs through it. Don’t know if that makes sense. ? Artist has said he would do geometrics and detailed design but one of those things you just don’t know till you do it then might be too late. That’s why trying to gain as much advice as possible so don’t make a mistake ! 

By the way. Back of head and sides going to be shaved down to zero gaurd and kept that way with options of tattoos as below.....

Posted about this in another post guys with not much response. Just wondering if anyone has any other thoughts on if this could work as booked in for June and been assured by artist he can cover it. Would appreciate a few more tattooists point of view aswell if possible. ? 

So u think it got a chance of working maybe. Was hoping there were a couple of artists on here that could give bit of advice ? 

This is my worry with going over scar   .This is a tattoo I have on my arm that goes over a slight scar (booster injection) and you can see the difference and where ink has blurred out and has a shinny finish to it. Didn’t want this to be happening all along the back of head. ? 

These were only rough ideas for design for artist to work on. Hopefully he will design it in a way that pattern covers all of scar. Plus if scar is 15 yrs old wouldn’t it hold ink more stable ? 

From South Wales. It’s just the unknown of how it’s going to look because scar tissue I think is unpredictable and not seen anything online where someone has had it done which is making me more doubtful about it. Just don’t want to end up worse than am now. Thanks for reply. 

Just hope it covers the scar and don’t see anything different in that area. 

Would be something like these 

Looking at getting a tattoo to cover up this scar. Be a back of head/ neck piece. Any advice appreciated on this. Worried that ink might take differently into scar ??

This is what I’ll be trying to cover with a design and head shaved down to 0 guard. Do u think possible ? 

Thanks. Have you had or seen any examples of this yourself ? 

Hi guys. New to this forum so any advice and feedback is appreciated. Looking at getting a neck/head piece mainly to cover scar on back of head. Main worry is would you still notice the scar through the tattoo due to ink taking to scar differently (bleeding out or not taking as much as ink around it). ? Scar is around 15 yrs old and has turned white. Thanks or any advice.