Welcome to the Jungle
Add comment October 16th, 2007
A lot of my tattoo clients are fix-ups and this one was a big challenge. The original tattoo was done over ten years ago in Germany. She was stationed on a military base and I guess the only person people went to was a woman that worked from home.
Nothing wrong with that, but the problem was there was a huge English barrier. I was told that the original piece looked great on paper but when she tattooed it, it was left a little to be desired. Ihere is the orginal tattoo with my marker layed over where I’m reworking it
What she wanted was a women that looked like she lived in the jungle with a panther next to it and to have her in ripped leather clothing. What she got was a cheesy looking chick wearing high heels, a thong and a ripped tank top and a wall-eyed panther. If you look at the pic of the girl she has huge hips and her legs have no knees or any kind of anatomy along with all of the shading being done really weird
She told me she envisioned fixing the girl getting ride of the weird moon and covering the panther if I could. She wanted the tree to start to fade up into a tribal motif that went up into her neck to look sort of like George Clooneys tribal as Seth gecko in the movie” from dusk till dawn”
I was able to fix the girl as much to my ability and to what the original tattoo would allow
The next session was adding the tribal up and start to grow it onto her chest and up her neck but not to far where it would poke out her shirt.
Here is the pic with the girl healed and the panther almost gone another treatment and added back ground and it will be gone for good
This is the tribal so far.
I would always prefer to have fresh skin because a nice cover up or redo is never as good as done right the first time. She is totally happy with it and now is willing to show it as before she would tell people they couldn’t look at because she was embarrassed.