Cover Up Tattoos Before and After

In the end, this will result in you getting another tattoo that you’ll have to live with. So, put no less thought into the design; in fact, it may warrant greater consideration. Your artist may be able to offer some suggestions, but it’s best to bring some of your own as well. Be aware that cover ups of cover ups are rarely ever possible, so this one truly is forever.

There are limitations with cover up tattoos, for example your new tattoo will need to be bigger than the existing design. The new one may also need to feature very dark colours in order to make sure the unwanted ink is obscured.

Due to the potential colours or complexity involved, your cover up tattoo may take considerable time, or require multiple sittings. Your artist will be able to advise you about the cost and practicalities of your particular design.

Cover Up Tattoos Ideas

With the best will and planning in the world, you may one day find yourself no longer wanting that carefully thought out tattoo. Obviously, if you woke up after a night of heavy drinking and found the ink had appeared out of nowhere, the odds of a falling-out are even greater.

But, is there an option for you? Beyond expensive, inconvenient removal surgery, or simply wearing baggy jumpers for the rest of your life? Fortunately, cover up tattooing exists as a viable option for taking an unwanted tattoo and making it bearable again.

Alas, for those who want to be left without a trace, it will not be enough. But if the idea of replacing your unwanted tattoo with another catches your interest, perhaps you ought to read on?

Butterfly Star Tattoo

Butterfly tattoo on sleeve and transparent stars tattoo on man's shoulder.

Blue and red wings butterfly with shooting stars tattoo.

Butterflies often symbolize rebirth, a new beginning. Stars can symbolize various things. A 5-pointed pentagram is often religious in nature. When so, it usually symbolizes the 5 elements of creation: earth, air, fire, water, spirit.

Cross Tattoos The Most Popular

Crosses are, without a doubt, the most popular type of tattoo you can get. Just about everyone likes to employ a cross, whether they use it in their own designs or as just a standalone tattoo. Perhaps it is because the cross can symbolize so many things, or maybe it is just because the cross is one of the most basic, easiest shapes for tattoo artists to create. Whatever the reason, whenever you get a tattoo of a cross on your body, you want to make sure that it stands out from the thousands of other tattoos of the same design.

When getting a cross tattoo, the worst possible thing you can do is take a tattoo design right out of one of the cross tattoo galleries and tell the artist that is what you want on your body. Do you really want some boring, used up design that hundreds of other people have already used, on your body? Why not get something original? Something you can call your own. Even if you have no design skill whatsoever, there are countless ways to create a unique cross design.

The best way for non artistic types to create their own unique cross tattoo is to start with a template of some sort. A basic foundation that you can build on with your own unique taste. And that's where the cross tattoo galleries come in. Although you should never get a tattoo straight from a gallery, you should certainly use the gallery to your advantage as a starting point for what you create yourself.

So, the first step to finding your own unique cross tattoo is to look through gallery after gallery to find a design that is fitting. Do you want a Celtic cross? A Roman cross? One of the other countless types of crosses? There are hundreds of examples of crosses in any given tattoo gallery, so find the four or five designs that you like the best and go from there.

If you have some drawing skill, you can take the cross tattoo templates that you have gathered and add your own sketches to them to make the designs your own. Otherwise, just make a list of some things you would like changed and tell the tattoo artist about the changes you want when you go in for your tattoo. The artist will create a quick sketch which should match what you are looking for.

Here are few pictures of the most popular Cross Tattoos:

Miley Cyrus Tattoo "Just Breathe"

Miley Cyrus says about her "Just Breath" tattoo:

“It reminds me not to take things for granted. I mean breathing – that was something none of them could do, the most basic thing. And I put it near my heart, because that is where they will always be.”

Her first tattoo was of the words “Just Breathe” tattooed on the left side of her rib cage. The tattoo was revealed in December 2009, when Miley was only 17 years old. It’s not surprising that Miley’s parents would give her permission to get a tattoo considering that her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, is quite inked himself and her half-brother Trace Cyrus is practically covered in tattoos. The tattoo is a tribute to her friend Vanessa who died of the lung disease cystic fibrosis in 2007 and her grandfathers who both died of lung cancer.

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