Hey everybody, it is qcknd and welcome back to tattoo talk Tuesday. So if it was your very first time joining us
tattoo talk Tuesday is our weekly interactive talk show where I take your submitted questions and try to blend my experience to you guys as
a tattoo collector
So this week is actually pretty funny. I posted a little question on my Instagram story every guys to answer
Asking what you wanted to see on tattoo talk Tuesday this week
The question was asked to me to talk about
tattoo aging and I thought it would be really cool to talk about some of my oldest tattoos and
It's kind of funny because last night I was watching
Homecoming and I was looking at this tattoo my arm the love kills slow tattoo
And how much it is generally faded more than my other tattoos
And I was just looking at it and I think it's great timing to talk about this question
So I thought I would just go down the list of my five
oldest tattoos and just talk about how they faded and just how they've aged and changed with my body and
Just talk about my theories on why they look this way
So hang out with me today, and we'll talk about my five oldest tattoos
So I don't want this video to come out too negative
like these are pieces that have existed on my body with me for I
Don't know like more than 12 years some of them so they are a part of my body but almost like a family member
I feel a little open about critiquing them. Don't feel any sort of sense of negativity
I'm definitely okay with all of my tattoos
And if they're still on my body then I want them
so I just wanted to like a little bit put that out there because I don't want to be like in
this part and you'd be like no like
My tattoo loose like that like it's not that at all. So the first tattoo I ever got I
got when I was 16 and I
Got it with parental consent
Despite what is written Inked Magazine, my mom signed a paper and a man gave me a tattoo
But my first tattoo I got when I was 16 was a gray wash
Manatees tattoo to manatees together and I actually had that tattoo removed
I wasn't going to include it in this list, which I had to write down cuz I don't know my body well enough
But I thought I would include it because the tattoo I was able to get removed
Almost entirely with just one section and I guess lastly when is my next appointment?
like am I happy with the results and I am it's funny like
Now that I'm getting like the tattoo in my back moon
I'm kind of excited to have
Like that space be available. This is
Kind of a unique situation grey wash tattoos do remove a lot easier
Than your standard like super saturated color bold tattoo
but I had that tattoo removed so I could get a
Back piece and this tattoo wasn't really my vibe and it was completely in the way and I've thought about like getting it again
somewhere else, but
For right now the tattoo was removed very very easily
there is a little bit of like a remnant of it back there and I think
the next time I go to get tattoo removal
I think if he just like did a little bit of the like
Tiny little parts that even still kind of see I think it would be a full removal
But I'm really satisfied with how much of it is gone and how much my tattoo artist was able to cover
When I got the back piece, I think a lot of that has to do with I got it when I was 16
So I kept growing and it was right on my back. So like the Sun was being exposed to it it was
you know about 10 years old when I got it removed and
It was a really light tattoo. So that's a -
It's gone and I'm fine with that so the next item I have is the sugar skull on my hip
So this is a tattoo. I don't really talk about or show off or
particularly, like I'll tell you about it and why I think it has changed so much since I got it I
Don't know if I have a picture of it fresh
But I think by looking at it, you can tell how much it has changed
So I think one of the reasons this tattoo failed is because it doesn't have a lot of structure
It doesn't have a lot of like dark lines that hold it in place. So I think a lot of the colors just have like
faded and bled away and
There are parts of the tattoos that aren't even outlined at all that I think are crucial again to like the structure of the tattoo
there are also some added fine lines in the tattoo and
I don't have any other fine line detailed tattoos
so definitely leave in the comments if you have any fine line tattoos where they are on your body and
How long you pad them because I think the next part of this tattoo that I'm going to describe is
why I asked why it's on your where it is on your body because
This tattoo is right on my hip but not on my hip bone kind of like my upper thigh
where all that meat is and I got this tattoo when I was 18 and I think in the last ten years I
Go between like gaining and losing
50 pounds pretty periodically and I think that this is a part of my body that
Gets a lot of that like slack my hips and my butt where I carry a lot of my extra weight
so between gaining and losing and fad diets and breakups and beauty school and
Things like that. I think that part of my body has definitely gotten
Thrown through the wringer and I think that hasn't helped the tattoo at all
I feel like when you look at it
You can tell that it's just been moved around a lot and things just seem stretched and then think stuff back together
so I think that's why this tattoo just like
Looks a little chewed up. So I had this tattoo done in a Walkinshaw. I wasn't super familiar
Familiar at all with the artists who gave me this tattoo
like I said
I got it over 10 years ago and Instagram and any sort of way that I find tattoo artists now
Did not exist or was not available to me. So I
Didn't really know like what a heeled picture of like one of her tattoos. Like I didn't have access to that
I don't think it's sun damage because this part of my body is rarely ever exposed to the Sun
There's no freckles in this tattoo. So I think it is a combination of
not really knowing the tattoo artist and that part of my body just like the
Next tattoo I have I actually talked about last week and it is the Roman numerals on my ankle so I don't have any
like big
complaints about how this tattoo has healed especially because it is like in a high impact area in an area that like
Probably is more likely to be exposed to the Sun than like my hip tattoo
But I would say this tattoo
isn't like a crisp black anymore and
Since it was done by the same tattoo artist who did my hip I can kind of see in both tattoos
that the black is almost like
You know changing a little bit
It sounds really nitpicky for me to be like well, it's more like a green plaque
I think it's just like the ink that she used or you know her technique and whatever like that
So I think that this tattoo is fine it is
Changing I think in the next 10 years. I will see that black continue to change but I think a touch-up
From like a tattoo artist who I've been tattooed by so I like the way that their tattoos age
I think would just change that pretty easily. So my next I
Have to refer to my list, so my next tattoo is my heart locket and key tattoo
And I'm also just going to include the Rose in there as well because I believe I got them next in order
So I'm just gonna talk about them as one tattoo
so this tattoo on
me
Kind of aged the worst. I know it sounds a little dramatic. I'm sorry. I keep apologizing
I know some of you in the audience are tattoo artists, and I'm really not trying to sound like super Hollywood about these tattoos
I actually had this tattoo completely 100% reworked. You might remember the video. I made a couple years ago about
Laser tattoo removal and reworks of her up already didn't work for me and because it was such a light purple
There was really nothing. You could hide or pretend wasn't there
so
Removal was my best option
You can kind of see the cobweb and my arm is down and then the Rose is almost completely 100%
With only that really dark line right there. So this was the tattoo. That was the focus of this video of that video just because
this tattoo faded a lot and
for me
Because it's the top of my arm and the biggest tattoo in my arm, and I really do like it
I like how it caps my shoulder. I like the meaning behind it. I like how it looks. I think the tattoo
The structure of the tattoo is good, but it did start to fade
So this was another tattoo. I got in a walk-in shop who I was not familiar with the artist beforehand
But I went to a shop that was nearby my house and it was important that I wanted traditional
it was at this point my life that I knew the
Tattoos I wanted from now on so I was laying down the road work, but I wasn't quite there yet
I had this tattoo completely reworked and
What is different about this tattoo is kind of everything?
so the originally the inside of this tattoo was red and then this tattoo back here was purple so I actually had all of
the
purple that used to being here removed with a laser tattoo removal and then
redone in red and then this tattoo used to be red and it was so faded that
Mark, Ross who reworked this tattoo was able to just put this teal right on top. I love it. It's like a nice
Oxidized copper it's beautiful mark actually redid everything line for line
He went over every single previous line down to this little ribbon
And I think that the tattoo has a lot more structure now
It's a lot darker and deeper and I'm completely satisfied with it asking mark to redo
this tattoo was really hard for me because I just think that tattoo art is still like doing stuff like that and it wasn't his
tattoo and
I was just really really
Unhappy with it. I had gotten tattooed by mark three times in a row and asked him about this tattoo each time
It was just on my mind. I was just really unhappy with how it was aging
so I was able to convince mark to do it and I believe it took us three sessions like it was tough and
expensive
Getting a tattoo reworked is going to cost some more money than the tattoo the first time
Or doubly because he already paid for a tattoo already that you didn't like
I love the tattoo now
I will say that I am
A freckled person and my body freckles a lot as well as my face
So I think that freckles did have some sort of part in this like you can kind of see in the teal
How it almost looks like it has
Texture but at a second glance like all of that is freckling. I do freckle a lot in my arms
I would say I'm pretty responsible with skin care and sunscreen. I would say like
seven out of ten
Responsible and even in the summer I'll wear like a light sweater sometimes or like UV protective clothing
So I think I'm pretty good with that. But this tattoo just
Really had faded a lot and I was pretty unhappy with it. So the next tattoo in
sequence of getting tattoos would be this diamond on the inside of my arm, and it was done by the same artist and I
Say that it's just fading and aging the same way this tattooed in
with a lot of the lines kind of lightening up and I think just the structure of the tattoo is kind of
Faded a little bit as well. It's becoming a little less legible
I feel a lot of times like people will ask me if this is a bruise and
it's
It's a sawdust and diamonds tattoo. I love the tattoo. I love the little branches and the little cherry right here
It's amazing. And I think it does look like a wild diamond like it's not the like kind of
Structured like Diamond Supply Diamond. I I really do love the tattoo
I do think that a touch-up would make me super excited about this tattoo
But it just does limb inside my arm
I love how it fits right here like that gets me going for days this like perfect little
So I'm happy with the tattoo
I just think a little bit of a touch-up like a little bit of
Going over the black would really just bring it up to the standard of the rest of the tattoos on my body
But it's an older tattoo. So that's how it's going
And like I said if my weight fluctuated that much this is kind of a place where that could be
experienced that like stretching
so the last tattoo is the tattoo that I
Have a lot of similar things to say and I really do want touched up
So this tattoo was the first tattoo like on my lower arm
my first like you can't really cover up with a short sleeve shirt tattoo my like
Visible tattoo achievement and it's his love kill slow tattoo, and I think this tattoo has faded
significantly and
I have become more and more self-conscious of it lately
I would love to get it reworked or even just like touched up
But like I said, I just have a really hard time asking tattoo artists to touch up tattoos for me. I feel really bad
but I think having my tattoos reworked is kind of the next step for me, especially someone who
you know got their feet wet with getting tattoos without a
like
Research or thoughts about the future and now that I think about that stuff
I still have some of those tattoos that I really really like but just like aren't there
So the love kills slow tattoo
You can kind of see the lettering the middle of the letters is kind of just like falling out a little bit
The tattoo doesn't have like too much blowout. I'm really happy about that
like I'm happy with the structure of the tattoo, but it is fading a lot and
surrounded by
Tattoos of like tattooed tattoo artists I really really like and respect and it's like sawed out
It kind of just like looks so light compared to my other tattoos
Like I have this Mike Adams tattoo right above it in the contrast between them. I feel like is noticeable
Not really, but I notice it I'll do things like put oil on this tattoo and exfoliate it and things like that
so like really, you know make it bright but at this point
It's clear that it's just like needs to be touched up exfoliate it healed. I never exfoliated it
While it was healing I exfoliated now ten years later one thing that I would love to do
Sooner the sooner than later is to start getting my tattoos
touched up or
reworked a little bit by tattoo artists who I
Love to bring more of a like cohesive standard to my tattoos. I
Love the aging process of tattoos and for a lot of my tattoos like it is really interesting
Like I recently did a video about how my tattoos are kind of freckling and getting freckles through them and that's not a problem
I have with the tattoos. I just mentioned but it is different than this tattoo
Just being significantly lighter than the rest of my tattoos
Like even my Cardinal which I had gotten
Probably next in sequence is still much darker than this tattoo, you know what I mean? So
that's just how I feel maybe kind of particular but
if you get to this place where in 10 years some of your tattoos are just
changing and others aren't I think that it's a good indicator that you got some really good tattoos and some other tattoos that are just
You know a little lighter different inks that are just breaking down a little differently
I said it I think a hundred times but I do love the tattoos. I have except for the sugar school. I
just want them to like kind of pop and at least look like my other tattoos to bring more of a
Uniformity to everything that's a personal choice though. I meet people all the time who love their broken in aged
Beat-up tattoos and I love that for them too. The tattoo my angle though
Like I like that I you know, I probably won't get that touched up
a lot of people ask me if I'm getting the sugar skull removed and I
Just think it'll be too hard because I don't think about it too often
removing yellows I think is particularly difficult with tattoo removal and
I've thought about getting a cover-up. I wanted the like Luna P ball
So like Luna ball from Sailor Moon, but I kind of just felt like a big
Fucking purple on my hip wouldn't really work out
So for now it stays but these have been my tattoos and how they have aged
Let me know in the comments if you have any similar stories because I'm starting to feel like a diva up here
And I don't like it. So
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