| The rehabilitation of an old or poorly done tattoo is done either by a cover up or a reworking. A rework involves re-inking the whole tattoo rather then just adding spot color to compensate for any color that has faded with age. The reason for this is that solely adding spots of color to brighten an old tattoo will make it look like an old tattoo that has had a bit of new color added. Redoing the entire outline along with colouring the rest of the tattoo is recommended because it improves the tattoo for the long run.
A cover up involves tattooing over the old tattoo while camouflaging and working the old tattoo into a new design. Cover up tattoos are usually much larger then the original piece due to the amount of work it takes to work the old design into a new one. |
