Hey everybody it's Qcknd and welcome back to tattoo talk Tuesday!
Tattoo talk Tuesday is our weekly interactive Q and A
where I get user submitted questions from you and as an avid tattoo collector,
I try to lend my experiences to you guys in this show.
So I got a ton of questions this week all about tattoo conventions,
and because I'm going to the Philadelphia tattoo convention this weekend,
Everybody can look forward to a big, nice tattoo convention episode next week.
I figured I had the chance to do it before I go to the convention or after,
and I thought that at least after I can do some clips while I'm there
do some vlogging, and then I can show you guys all of my... Footage? Experience?
I'm going to see Derek Cooper for sure, and I'm really hoping to see Ashley Love
and my friends at Go Tattoo Removal, so I think it's going to be super fun
and I'd love to wait until next week to talk about it.
So this and today we are doing this and this is from... hinbreley?
And this is "What do you think of white ink tattoos?" And Iwould love to talk about this because
I do have feelings about white ink tattoos, as I do have a tattoo that has a lot of white ink in it
and I have feelings about it.
For a while, this used to be a super popular trend
I don't know if it's still on trend anymore, so if you're kind of just like "what is this"
um, a lot of people used to get white tattoo text, like, text because white tattoo ink
seemed really subtle on the skin, it was really trendy for awhile... I don't know, Pinterest?
Something like that, where it was kind of just like my favourite non-committal tattoo
kind of trend. I feel like after that, the trend kind of turned into, like, really
dainty like wrist tattoos, and behind the ear tattoos, but I remember for a while
the trend was these white ink tattoos. And what I kind of thought was cool about white ink tattoos
is they were perfect for the person who really didn't want to commit to a tattoo
but maybe wanted to feel it out, see what it felt like
have one... But I remember talking to my tattoo artist at the time when they were out
and he said there's no guarantee in a white ink tattoo
because everybody heals white ink differently. And my tattoo artist
told me a story about how he tattooed two sisters
And he gave them matching tattoos with white ink.
And the one sister's tattoo came out beautifully,
came out just as expected, and then the other sister I guess
as she was being tattooed, I don't know if like blood
or something, something was irritated, but her tattoo came out like
an orange/pink when it healed, and because
the sisters thought that they were getting matching tattoos,
they were pretty angry, they actually called my tattoo artist and he said
hey like there's no guarantee in a white ink tattoo and I never would've known
that it would heal orange. In my mind it like is brown, kind of like old blood
so you know if you're expecting this really delicate, white tattoo of like a dove
and it turns into a pidgeon, I can understand being upset
but, again, there's no guarantee in this white ink.
So, here's my experience with white ink and why I feel a type of way about it.
my white ink tattoos healed white, but the thing about them is, my tattoo artist
giving me the white tattoo went out of the lines. And I think that
if your tattoo artist and you're used to doing colour and things like that
I don't really know if there's quite an excuse for going out of the lines...
And sometimes I tell myself "at least it's white!"
Like, what if it was blue out of the lines... Then you would feel a real type of way about it.
So I'll show you what I'm talking about, and we can kind of decide
who's at fault here...
Here we go...
My favourite tattoo, lol...
So, you can kind of see here on this tattoo, um, right around here
is where the artist
went out of the lines... so if this is the difinitive line, right here
if you kind of pull back the skin here you can see where they went out of the line.
And you can kind of see that even though these are white... I don't know if the camera's
picking it up, but they do look kind of yellow, especially this one at the top.
This petal, you know, I wouldn't say this is comparable to a sheet of paper
like if this pillow is white, it's more like... I'm not going to say beige, but...
This one especially I feel like isn't very white. And this is the only white in the tattoo
and I'm not saying that this is a blockbuster tattoo or anything, but If these were bold
if these were, you know, red, or the same colour as the eye, I think they would really pop out
but you can kind of see as I pivot here... they're almost invisible
I don't think they heal really well at all and of course her going out of the line really bums me out
but at the same time, I think that these tattoos, these three, are not true to colour
and they look pretty blah.
For me thy kind of remind me of when you get a white T-shirt
and at first you're really eager about the white t-shirt , and then after a while
you get lazy and you start washing it with your coloured shirts
and then, you have this nasty shirt on your hands.
That's kind of how I feel about my white tattoo... I feel like it is very washed out,
it is not beautiful, it's not crisp anymore...
So, ideally my favourite way for tattoo artists to use white ink
is to mix it with other colours in order to create like a more diverse palette.
I have tattoos on me even now that definitely have white ink in them
but more mixed. Because tattoo artists can mix ink just like you would if you were painting
and I think that that's really cool that they can do stuff like that and I encourage
that like who wouldn't want white when they were painting something? It makes your colours more
diverse and, you know, if your artist is travelling, if they bring a thing of white, then they can eliminate
needing to pack so many other things. And I feel like it also adds, like, a custom element to your colours.
So, that's my experience with white ink tattoos... The white ink on my own body I think is nasty
and poo-poo, and I think that although it is a tattoo of a dandelion, which is supposed to be white, I think
just from the beginning, it never really healed well, it's out of the lines, which I think again could've been
Hey john! [John]: Hey [Qcknd]: How do you feel about white ink tattoos?
[John]: Uh... the one you just showed me on you was the first I've ever seen
[Qcknd]: Oh really? [John]: Yeah [Qcknd]: Do you know anyone who has a white tattoo?
[John]: No [Qcknd]: So, the answer is no, but... yeah, um, even like the skull isn't white
it's just like a little bit of grey wash to create shadow that kind of shows where white would be
which I think is always a better option than white ink. Although, I'm really excited to see it done well
so let me know if you have a white ink tattoo that you love or maybe you hate
and maybe you have a similar experience where your white tattoo maybe kind of turned yellow...
And yeah! Thanks for all your submissions and stay tuned for next week when we talk about
conventions... I love you guys so much, and if you see me at the Philidelphia tattoo convention, feel
free to say hi... I'll be with John! Are you so excited for your first tattoo convention? [John]: Yeah
[Qcknd]: Expect a lot of nudity... Not freaks...
Oh it's snowing! Bye!
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