If there’s a will to tattoo your skin, there’s a way to mess it up. Luckily, even if it doesn’t pan out, you don’t have to wear the disappointment forever. There are a couple of approaches to saving your image. This time, we’ll focus on cover-ups.
They can either completely hide the old design or incorporate some of its elements into the new one, and it’s amazing how big of a difference they can make.
From an alien transforming into a cat to a cross “growing” into a tree, continue scrolling to check out the cover-ups Bored Panda found on the subreddit r/FixedTattoos and the conversation about this technique that we had with Alice Kendall, the owner of Wonderland Tattoo in Portland, Oregon.
#1 Pikachu
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#2 Just Wow
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#3 An Amazing Portrait Tattoo Fix
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#4 Flowers Cover Up
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#5 I Like Both The Before And After Of This Tattoo, But A Well Done Rework Nonetheless
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#6 You Can’t Lie, This Is A Good Fix
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#7 Fantastic White Rabbit Rework By Ali Burke At Highwater Gallery, Swansea UK
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#8 Wow What A Difference
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#9 Cruci-Fixed
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#10 Amazing Difference
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#11 Mary Who? I Only Love Marge
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#12 Beautifully Executed
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#13 Alien To Cat
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#14 Cover Up Done By Rodney Eckenberger
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#15 One Of My Favourite Backpiece Cover Up
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#16 Got This One Done A While Ago, What Do You Think About This Bad Guy On A Guy’s Leg? Imo It’s An Awesome “Funny” Tattoo Which I Love!
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#17 Little Before & After
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#18 Compass Taking Me No Where Now Takes Me Everywhere
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#19 If This Can Be Covered Up Then Anything Can Be
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#20 Cover-Up
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#21 Beautiful Cover Up By Tattooist Muha
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#22 Love This Floral Cover Up!
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#23 Zombie Pinocchio
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#24 From Derp Knight To Dark Knight
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#25 Peacockblob Transformation Done By Whitney At Boss Tattoos In Yyc
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#26 The Bird (Remember Kurt Halsey?) Was Done Back In 2005, And The Little Leaves In 2010. Last Year In 2018, I Decided To Get A Cover Up. The Artist, Jen Tonic Who Is Currently Located In Berlin, Designed The Tattoo. The Poppy Is My State Flower
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#27 Blackout-Tattoo Cover Up (Trypophobia Anyone?)
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#28 Before And After My Coverup
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#29 Rocket Cover Up
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#30 Had Gotten A “Kiwi” Tattoo With My Chihuahua Footprint In It, Great Concept But Horrible Work. Recently Got It Covered By A Wonderful Artist Who Saved The Paw Print And Gave Me A Great Piece Of My Soul Pup
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