Blian

The point of a blast over, typically speaking, is to put a piece of art over-top what's there and not care about the previous tattoo / use it as "ascent" to the new tattoo. Personally speaking, and not professionally, it's a trend I really hope doesn't stick around long.

Professionally speaking, the dermis can only hold so much pigment. That pigment is of a particle size that is essentially too large for your body to process and dispose of it as the true contaminate that it is. Over years and years though, the immune system will indeed "chip away" at that pigment and that's why tattoos start to look a little faded / blurry / out of focus.

When you do a blast over, you're now cramming more pigment into the dermis, which will ultimately settle and any trauma from the first tattoo will most likely show through, via raised line work is the most common sight. Over time, it will settle down and become muddy. This of course will vary depending on who did the first tattoo, with what colors and how saturated it is.

Since the blast over trend is just now picking up steam, I doubt we'll see any 'long term' photos for another few years. But in the meantime, I'll point you to those who got heavy black work done with the intention of putting white over it. Looks killer when first done but 2-3 years in, it's all muddy.

At the end of the day, it's your skin, you need to decide what you're acceptable living with.

Thanks!

I'm gonna get Frank Carter to do a new and BETTER one, so I don't really care! Haha.

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I may not be qualified to speak on this because I don't have any blast overs myself, but from what I understand it is best to laser a few sessions before blasting over. Depends on the look you're going for. Do you want the old tattoo to still peak out, or do you want it completely non existent.

Yeah, I don't mind the old tattoo to peak through, I was really wondering how it will look in a few years. Stiil good or will itt all "merge" together?

Hi!

It's been a while since my last post but here it goes:

I was wondering about your experience with blastovers without the use of laser, and how does it look after a few years? Has it all been moshed to a giant black mess or does the blastover still look as good as it did when you first got it?

I'm wondering because I have an arm I would like to cover/blastover/laser, and I don't know what to do about it.

See pictures of my arm below.

I just knew that had to be on an LSTer... Nice one.

Haha, thanks!

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Lucky m*****f****r! Love it!

Thanks, buddy!

Oneshot from Marius Meyer.

Pretty happy about this one.

Sounds pretty sweet!

Nowadays it is very important to do good research, many "artists" out there, speaking of experience. --> Hence cover.

I mean no offense, and I understand the desire to abbreviate, but if you could please take the time to spell out "Japanese," that would be awesome.

Sure thing, will do it NeXT time!

Cheers.

My next planned tattoo is a jap. Dragon on my thigh. Marius Meyer gonna do it. So stoked about this. As for now, I think I´m gonna dedicate my whole right leg for jap. stuff.

After that, my first pri. is to finish a cover I started.

Thanks, man! Much appreciated!

Takk Eilin!

At the beginning I didn't care to much about the placement and the flow. But after I got more into tattooculture, and ofcourse got more tattoos, I started to think more and more about the flow of new tattoos.

At the same time, I think it´s hard to "plan" a whole arm in one-shots, so I´m pretty carefree still. The "flow" looks better after each tattoo anyway. At least for trad. tattoos.

I´m planing a jap. piece soon, and with this the placement and flow comes more important to me.

Cheers everyone! Yeah, like Koeplinger said to me; every punker has to have the bars tattooed!

Hi, my name is Brede André Lian. 23 years old guy from Norway. Got introduced to this forum by Wilhell.

My Story: Been into tattoos about 2-3 years now, and now for the last 1,5 years; tattoohistory- and culture. My first tattoo was the Black flag bars, and from there I got hooked.

I´m very into trad. Tattoos, but recently got a good feeling for jap. stuff.

Thanks for having me, this should be fun!

Cheers.

Brede Lian