Hand Tattoos
Hello everyone, and welcome to Louis Santos Tattoo. Winter is coming and it is time for me to get my pencils and painting brushes ready, as I love to paint and draw in winter time, its my pleasure to stay in and enjoy my art.
In this blog, I would like to talk about hand tattoos. Hand Tattoos for sure it deserves a entire blog focus on the subject.
Hand Tattoos, in my point of view, is the hardest area of the body to Tattoo. If you ask a majority of Tattoo Artists, which is the part of the body that is the hardest to tattoo, they say hands. Tattooing hands, it was the part of the body where it took me longer to learn to Tattoo, why is that? Because when you tattoo a hand is really easy for the ink to fall off. Why is it easy to fall off? Because you can not ask your client not to move his or her hand after the tattoo session.
One thing I have learned about tattooing the hands, is that, it does not matter, how good the Tattoo Artist is, it is more likely the tattoo is going to need touching up. Everyone works in different conditions, some people work with their hands, so it is more likely to affect the healing process. Is it possible to do a hand Tattoo without needing touch up after, yes it is, I have done some hand tattoos where it went in first time, however, to be on safe side, as soon as I book a hand tattoo, I make sure the second session is also booked, to ensure I get the opportunity to do a second pass.
There are 30 small muscles located directly inside the palm and the base of the hand. Not all muscles in the hands are located between the bones. Some muscles are based in the palm, but the area that gets tattooed, it doesn’t have many muscles, so maybe that’s why tattooing hands it doesn’t feel the same as other areas in the human body, and it is so challenging to tattoo.
So if you are considering getting your hand tattooed, please bear in mind, the patience you will need to achieve a successful hand tattoo, and your Tattoo Artist in Bury, could have 5, 10, 15, 20 years experience, and it is more likely that you will need your hand tattoo touched up.
As Tattoo Artists we can not predict in which condition the client will be in once they leave the Tattoo studio in Bury. If you get tattooed in your hand, and you work in a building site, or you work with food, or surrounded by hot temperatures it is more likely that your hand tattoo will need touching up.
I did once tattoo a hairdresser, and he did not keep his hand tattoo covered after the tattoo session we did. So imagine, an open wound in his hands and he is cutting people’s hair. As you can tell, the tattoo did not heal well, and it needed touching up, and not only that, I did not get the opportunity to touch up, he was not happy for the fact that the tattoo did not heal well. I love clients with a common sense, as it does really help with the process. If you choose someone to tattoo you, that means you trust them, there is no point in choosing someone to tattoo you, and having one foot behind, if you as a client have an issue with your tattoo, go and talk to your Tattoo Artist about it, instead of turning your back on someone who you trusted in the first place.
Tattoos can not heal well sometimes, everyone has a different type of skin, so sometimes, your tattoo artist is getting to know your skin, so not going back to your tattooist if your tattoo does not heal well, it is such a shame, as your tattoo would be sorted if you come back to the tattoo artist who did your tattoo, and gave the artist the opportunity to touch it up. That really includes with hand Tattoos for sure.
Thank you for reading my blog, until the next one.