carmineeyes:

eccentric-nae:

actualblackgirlswithtattoos:

composted-smiles:

creatingfromculture:

blipsterinsverige:

illbegonetillnovember:

lesbianzoidberg:

lesbianzoidberg:

why are the artists on ink master allowed to say shit like “i hate tattooing dark skin” like just bc you’re bad at your job doesn’t mean you get to be openly racist

indigenous artists have been successfully tattooing dark skin for thousands of years & here comes your white ass saying tattoos aren’t made for dark skin 👀

i love this. i do. and i’ll comment on it every single time.  the very first artist i went to get tattooed was in Utah and the guy told me straight that color wouldn’t look good on my skin because it wouldn’t show up.

second guy i went to was in California and he said basically the same thing.  Color wouldn’t look good on or show up on my skin. blah blah blah…

so months later, i’m at a tattoo convention in LA and i walk past a booth featuring tattoo artists from Taiwan and i see this BEAUTIFUL phoenix that’s just… amazingly brightly colored and beautiful and the guy asks if i’m interested and i said something about it not looking as good in black and grey and he asked why i don’t just get it in color and i said the color won’t show and he PLEADED with me to let him show me he could do it.

and he did.

and it’s fucking amazing and bright after almost 8 years now of being on my skin… all the pinks and teals and yellows and oranges… all of it.  Still vibrant.

i went all the way to Taiwan years later just to get more added to it, and my leg done as well.

now, as soon as someone tries to tell me that they can’t put color on my skin, i disregard them and write them off.  Sometimes (depending on how stuck up they can be) i go ahead and lift my shirt and show them my side (and now legs, and now arms) that are fully colored and vibrant and BEAUTIFUL. 

and i hope it sets into their brain that just because THEY can’t do it, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.  

Also… some of the people who have put the best color on me have been people who don’t normally work with dark skin (being from different countries where skin tones might be darker, but maybe not as dark as me) but they’ve been willing to TRY and they always succeed and that means a lot.

🙌🏾

There is a whole shop of black artist in Atlanta that are dedicated to tattooing darker skin. The shop is called City of Ink. The owner is a black tattoo artist named Miya Bailey. It’s been open for 22+ yrs. check em out.

This makes me so happy

When I got my thigh tattoo done (all in color by a white artist) she said tattoos darker skin tones isn’t impossible you just have to know what your doing know your color pallet and know what does and doesn’t work on their skin she lives in cali and has had a strong Hispanic clientele so my skin tone was no problem for he and my tattoo has blues reds yellow etc in it just find someone who knows what they’re doing

All I wanted was a simple butterfly and they told me it couldn’t be done in color and now im annoyed knowing what I know

Thanks to this post I was able to recommend City of Ink to a coworker who had been told the same thing for a long time. She’s since left the site, but I hope she gets the bright tattoos she’s wanted.