All You Need To Know About Blackout Tattoos w/ Michela & Jason | Dos and Donts

my name is michaela boutin my name is jason ackerman and these are the do's and don'ts for blackouts yay blackout tattoos taking uh it could be cover-up it doesn't necessarily have to be but it's taking a very large chunk of skin and just making a nice solid feel to black or it's just blacking something out a large field of skin for me it started as a necessity because it was a cover-up and then i see more and more people lately getting it and i honestly think it's cool like cover-up or not if it's you know if it's well done it's actually beautiful it is it's like it was something when i started tattooing people were doing like smaller versions of blackout stuff and i remember being very critical of it like thinking that's tattoo suicide but now like as i've grown as a human and realized kind of the thoughts behind it even with what i want to do with myself it's it's very it's a beautiful thing so first off when you do a normal like i don't want to call it normal tattoo but when you do like uh a design let's say you go the way i work i do small line first medium line second and then i do both outlines black shading and then i go with the color and then i go with the white which means that in a in a piece however big it is i go over over the same areas sometimes countless times while the way this was done for me it was more like a printer you start somewhere and you go and then you start somewhere and you go i know there are a lot of people that work like that anyway but for me since i never had a tattoo done that way before that was the thing that made it uh very i perceived like as very different personally i felt it was less painful because you know you don't keep going over the same areas but you kind of like you know work your way up or down yes up or down depending where you go for me i think the difference like what she was saying like when you're doing a piece with the design you get to do layers so the saturation is is is far easier in my opinion doing color like a color piece as opposed to doing a very smooth black and black work it's very very difficult to do it's time consuming it's it's very hard to get the same consistency and the same stroke and the same movement in your hand to get that nice especially if you're doing like just solid black it's very time consuming and that's that's something that people need to understand there are some people out there that'll say put a 45 mag on and rail you through it quick but it's it's a time-consuming thing don't think that because it's just black it's easy it's actually far harder than than anything i think having a solid saturation in this big amount of i think in a big area it's one of the hardest thing to do you know without hurting the skin or you know being consistent so that's definitely a don't so because i've been asked this a few times i actually asked valerio about it so that i know that i'm not spreading rumors or false information and what he told me and i have the messages is that the it's not something done to create pain of people he says the brutal breaks project is an opportunity that they give to like passionate body art collector to go through a path of inner transformation through a ritual of like tribal tattoo recreated under a modern more modern key i just translated from italian so i don't know if the trans the translation is correct but that's what he said as i said i got tattooed by valerio for me it was a great experience it was painful it's very fast and i remember the first time when i went to have a consultation with him he actually told me so one when i'm actually going to talk to you it doesn't matter if you're in pain or not i'm going to start i'm going to finish what i started and it doesn't matter and i was like yeah whatever and then the day came and it wasn't joking even though i was in pain or stuff like that it just kept going until it finished it wasn't a bad experience i didn't feel disrespected anyhow like uh he is a character and you know i feel like it doesn't uh as i say doesn't disrespect you or it doesn't it doesn't overpower you that's just the way he does but he still makes you feel comfortable you know in a comfort zone i got tattooed by valeria multiple times and eventually it got more and more like flexible with me so you know there were points where like you know sometimes you just don't feel like doing big sessions maybe i would quit half way through and you would totally respect it he did some cover-ups for me and um you know some of them were actually the cover-up itself was made was was meaningful you know uh and the factor that you would create uh the the pain it would give to me it was almost like because you're getting rid of something it was especially that there was this one tattoo that i really wanted to cover so the fact that that that pain really felt like uh refreshing somehow i know it sounds very weird but i don't know i almost feel like you know you got a tattoo that you didn't want anymore so you're kind of like getting getting rid of it and the pain is okay i know he's very criticized very criticized i cannot say anything bad about him to be honest i'm happy with what i got on me as i said i didn't feel disrespected i didn't feel that it was about the pain i would say do 100 sure that that's what you want on on your body absolutely once you do it there's no going back yeah i think you should not follow a fashion i feel like it is cool but at the same time it's scary once you have it and a lot of people don't get it including including my mom my mom is awesome but she's like totally fine if i get a tattoo totally not cool if i get some blackout done because for her she's like what is this you know there's not a tattoo for her she her is like this is weird when i started doing it you know i wasn't living with them so she saw me when i had big chunks done she thought there was something wrong with me and she thought you there is something wrong with you like she thought so and i guess a lot of other people don't understand it people that don't have tattoos or whoever so as a person that have it you're gonna have a lot of people that is gonna tell you what's the meaning of that why did you do that is it a cover-up like i don't understand it so you have to be hundred percent convinced because otherwise you know in the beginning it's gonna be okay but what after like you know 20 people in 10 days ask you why and like look at you like man you're gonna regret it if you yeah you might regret it but you if you like it if you love it you're never gonna regret it i don't regret any no [Music] do what does authorities tell you to do like don't listen to your friends a lot of people don't know about second skin so second skin you keep it on for a few days and you don't even know how many people with the first tattoo come back and they told me oh i didn't keep it on because my friend told me that i shouldn't keep it i shouldn't keep it rough for that long and i'm just like i told you something different you know like don't listen to your friends that are not expert listen to your tattoo artist depending on the tattoo you get depending on the southwest is you you you choose everybody has their own healing routine follow that one to the abc yeah like my color work the only way it heals good a little bit of a and d women if you go straight to lotion it just chunks up so like artists know how their work heals listen to them and i think the aftercare and those tattoos is as important as the session itself so i would say definitely do not take it lightly or do not think a lot of people do that and i see with my clients that once the tattoo session it's over then the yeah no actually the aftercare is as important as the tattoo session if the tattoo heals bad sometimes it's not my fault or the artist's fault if you don't take care of it if you go sunbathe the day after if you go in the swimming pool whatever you do is gonna have an impact on your tattoo so it's definitely important to [Music] to have a good healing take good care of it you

Channel: Inked

Views: 128,154

Keywords: tat, tattoo, tattoos, tattooer, tattooing, tattooist, tattoo art, tattoo artist, art, artist, blackout, blackout tattoo, black tattoo, dos and don'ts, michela bottin, jason ackerman, tips, tattoo tips, advice, tattoo advice, how to, tattoo how to, education, informational, inked, inked mag, inked magazine

Id: miyd60skS6U

Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 20 2022