Major Isewater Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 44 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said: This will be particularly the case @maxjak with a Gustave Dore design. These are wonderful, intricate monochrome pictures but their appeal is in their sharpness and detail which will steadily blur into a grey blob over time. I have seen some amazing pictures of tattoos that give a three dimensional effect but they only work when they are fresh and sharp; lose the sharpness and the 3D effect goes and then the blurring and fading finishes it off. A Gustave Dore will last much better hanging upon the wall in a frame. An old friend of mine had ‘ Wolverhampton Wanderers ‘ tattooed on his manhood. He tells me that now it just reads ‘ Wolves ‘ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 9 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said: Fine, short of running this thread with updates for the next twenty years it is unprovable either way. A lot of older tattoos do look like blurry smears; you think this is because the inks are inferior and I think that this is the inevitable result of introducing foreign particles into the skin. I suggest that we agree to differ. It’s an age thing I guess , the skin goes saggy as time passes. Any way , piercings are great . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted July 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 12 minutes ago, maxjak said: The same however cannot be said of human skin, which can start to look saggy after 50-60 years, but not a lot can be done about that That’s my exact point......I fact it’s far less than 50-60 years before the skin starts to sag. Take a look at Eddie Hitlers picture above - that’s after just 15 years.......What was once a nice piece of an artistic pattern now looks like a heavy bruise that won’t fade...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Head Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Any chance of moving discussion about tattoos to non-football chat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 6 minutes ago, Richard Head said: Any chance of moving discussion about tattoos to non-football chat? Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted July 2, 2019 Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 On 01/07/2019 at 10:51, maxjak said: You just don't get it? Tattoo inks 15 years ago were completely different......yours is a spurious observation IMHO. Inks maybe better. But the skin doesn't change and inks still bleed into them over time. Better quality ink does not change the consistency of the skin... Added to that we are told inks are much better now. Time will tell if that is the truth or a claim as we as yet cannot comment on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screech Posted July 2, 2019 Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 Doesn't matter about the quality of the ink, the body will naturally dissolve it over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjak Posted July 2, 2019 Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 2 hours ago, screech said: Doesn't matter about the quality of the ink, the body will naturally dissolve it over time. Yawn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screech Posted July 2, 2019 Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 2 minutes ago, maxjak said: Yawn! True though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 "But when your skin goes saggy the tattoo will look horrible!" Well yeah, but so does the rest of your saggy ancient body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 Well, the tattoos I had done back in the eighties all look as good today as the day they were done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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