why are the artists on ink master allowed to say shit like âi hate tattooing dark skinâ like just bc youâre bad at your job doesnât 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 arenât made for dark skin đ
i love this. i do. and iâll comment on it every single time. Â the very first artist i went to get tattooed was in Utah and the guy told me straight that color wouldnât look good on my skin because it wouldnât show up.
second guy i went to was in California and he said basically the same thing.  Color wouldnât look good on or show up on my skin. blah blah blahâŚ
so months later, iâm at a tattoo convention in LA and i walk past a booth featuring tattoo artists from Taiwan and i see this BEAUTIFUL phoenix thatâs just⌠amazingly brightly colored and beautiful and the guy asks if iâm interested and i said something about it not looking as good in black and grey and he asked why i donât just get it in color and i said the color wonât show and he PLEADED with me to let him show me he could do it.
and he did.
and itâs 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 canât put color on my skin, i disregard them and write them off. Â 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.Â
and i hope it sets into their brain that just because THEY canât do it, doesnât mean it canât be done. Â
Also⌠some of the people who have put the best color on me have been people who donât normally work with dark skin (being from different countries where skin tones might be darker, but maybe not as dark as me) but theyâve been willing to TRY and they always succeed and that means a lot.
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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. Itâs been open for 22+ yrs. check em out.
















