I don’t know if I’d say they f-ing hurt-- I have 3 and I compare the sensation to being scratched by a cat (certainly not pleasant, but more burny than outright pain)— but you’re right: the only people I’ve heard falling asleep during tattoos are the ones who get like, 9 hour back pieces and stuff. There is no way I could have slept during any of mine.
That said, even my two mostly thick, black tattoos can be 100% covered with makeup. Not drug store cover up or anything, but give me 5 minutes and some good concealer, foundation, and powder, and you’d never know I had a tattoo in my life. Kat Von D sells an excellent tattoo cover up, though I’ve never used it myself.
Anyway, my point is that I have no doubt that she’d be able to cover those up with a little good makeup. Not ideal, but there you go.
As facial tats go, that is not a bad one, I guess. The mart of modern commerce being what it is, though, I prefer to have all mine where they can easily be covered with normal clothing.
Yes, I’ve seen those and that still qualifies as pretty freaking excellent in my book. Like I said, I have three tattoos that are smaller and I can 100% cover them with makeup in short order-- you’d never know they ever even existed. Few people-- even face tattoo girl— have tattoos quite as extensive as Kat.
Not exactly fair to compare totally bare skin with heavily makeup-covered skin, which is what the ‘unphotoshopped’ versions are doing.
The concealment of the darker color of the tattoo is the important part, and then after that base “skin tone” is achieved, you use regular foundation and makeup application with to blend the colors and planes of the body into harmony.
I highly doubt that the pictures you show as “unphotoshopped” are at the complete finished stage before she took the pictures shown in the advertisement - there is a distinct lack of body and facial makeup there that can’t be fixed easily with photoshop. Can it be done? Sure. Is it much less difficult and expensive to do it with actual makeup on site before the photoshoot? Heck yes. Especially if you have a skillful airbrush artist for the bodywork.
I have used Kat’s tattoo cover, and I do really like it - it’s very very highly pigmented, but has a nice tight finish that doesn’t suck up whatever you put over it. I’ve even used spray-tan on top of it to good effect (not on me - I look quite silly with a tan).
That said, that sort of makeup coverage really does preclude “natural” face looks with little makeup. She can make her face look very professionally and highly made-up in a ‘natural’ fashion, but it is very difficult to achieve that “barely made-up look” daily, on yourself, with a shit-ton of foundation and concealer as your starting point.
All those people remarking on how freakishly the tattoo artist looks…My first impression of him was that he had a very unremarkable, kind, nerdy, shy face, and that no amount of tattoes and piercings can hide that. The glasses, (the fact that he doesn’t mind wearing those glasses with his tattoos), but most of all his shy nerdy expression talk louder then any of the extensive tattoos. It is almost as if he wants to hide away behind his tattoos, instead of the in-your-face tattoos some other people have.
I’m at work and in the middle of a show and this post almost made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there. I actually had to bite my tongue.
My own reaction to this dude would probably be a bit more nuanced. I’m planning on getting a fairly conservative tattoo on my arm if/when I leave federal service (sort of a reward for myself), and this guy clearly has very different aesthetic tastes from my own. But whoever tattooed this guy had technical skill - his face and neck make one cohesive design, and I assume this fellow worked closely with his own tattooist in designing it. By a similar token, none of this fellow’s piercings look obviously inflamed or painful. Maybe some of them actually are - but my second thought (after “what they hell”) would be that this is a guy with a very, very good understanding of what you can and can’t do with tattoo gear.
So long as the guy was willing to help me implement my (very conservative, even dull) design, I’d have no problem trusting his judgment.
Agreed, BTW, that these stars are actually quite fetching. They bring out this woman’s eyes nicely, and I’m impressed by the way the varying size and placement seems to sort of echo the freckles on the other side of her face. This actually seems to have been a very skillful implementation of a design that (I assume) the woman proposed. I’d go to this guy.
Alright then, here’s a more extreme cover-up job (reveal starts at about one minute in): Zombie Boy Dermablend Ad
And personally, I don’t find her facial tattoos too off-putting. They’re rather charming, and I could see her working at any creative-type job from illustrator to designer to bookshop owner, or in sales in those fields.
I skimmed the article down as far as where the girl said she didn’t like going out in public because the tattoos made her feel like a freak. I though to myself, “Oh come on, I’ve seen far worse facial tattoos”. Then I scrolled down. Case in point. Yikes.
It’s the time of year when a lot of my seniors are coming to class and showing off their new tats, having just turned 18.
Morons.
I can’t think of a single decision I made at that age that I wanted to be held to when I was 21, much less as old as I am now. The tattoo removal people have job security out the wazoo, if my students are any measure. Gods, the tats are ugly.
The dope never fails to surprise me. I would never have guessed that so many posters would say that FACE tattoos are pretty nice looking. The way some folks catch the vapors from a tiny ankle lady bug tattoo.
Let’s see, I was 17 when I picked my college and my college major, both of which I sticked with, and led me to my present career.
But I can’t think of anything I want permanently recorded on my body. I agree with you about tattoo removal. Time to invest, methinks.
Well, it’s relative. I’m not going to be thinking, “Hey, there’s a chick with a face tattoo, let me go mosey over there,” but with that said, the result isn’t repelling, and if I found myself at a party and conversing with her, I might be inclined to tell her she’s a pretty lass.
Regarding the tattooist: he has all that ink and piercings on his face, yet he’s wearing pretty normal glasses. Anyone else think he should really be decked out in some customs frames that better go with all his work? I mean, come on now!
