We asked an expert all our burning questions about repurposing unwanted ink.
While covering body art with a redesign may not be the ideal situation, sometimes it can feel necessary, especially when it comes to moving on from a relationship. On the topic of tattoo redesigns, we spoke to Lee Roller, founder of Burlington-based
, a company that provides custom body art designs for customers from all over the world. Here’s what you need to know about covering up your ink, along with some tips on how to avoid tattoo regret in the future.Tattoo covers are more common than you may think, and make up around 20 percent of Custom Tattoo Design’s business, Roller says. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he reports that the most common type of tattoo people get covered are names of exes.
“We take someone’s design, and we work with it to make it beautiful,” he says. This often means enlarging the tattoo to some degree. “In order to make sure no one can see it, it probably has to be almost four times the size. Because if it just covers the name, unless that design is absolutely perfect, you’re always going to see the name through it. [By enlarging it, we] pull the eye in a different direction, and make something really vibrant somewhere else,” he says.
If you are looking to cover a tattoo, Roller says you’ll get the best results if you go through the design planning process in advance instead of getting it done on the spot in a tattoo shop. “It could end up being just a muddled mess,” he says. “You have to be an expert in order to make a cover.” While his team draws the re-imagined tats, it’s then up to a separate tattoo artist to execute the design. Since tattoo artists charge by the hour, extensive cover-ups are consequently more pricey.
According to Roller, about 40 percent of his customers never go through with the tattoo they get designed. This is because the design process allows people to envision actually having the tattoo, and some realize that they simply don’t want it at all. With tattoo pre-planning, regretting ink in the future is less likely. No shade to you, Rihanna, we love your ankle crown re-design regardless.
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