{"id":1051,"date":"2021-02-26T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkartbykate.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2023-03-30T07:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:33:49","slug":"changing-tattoo-colors-what-are-your-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkartbykate.com\/changing-tattoo-colors-what-are-your-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Tattoo Colors: What Are Your Options?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When it comes to changing tattoo colors, the options you have are very limited as you cannot ever take color out of a tattoo<\/strong>; you can only add color in. This means that you change the color, you would need to blend a new color with an existing color in your tattoo, and that can be very complicated. So, what are your options when it comes to changing tattoo colors?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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You can blend two compatible colors, one existing color in your tattoo and one new color being added to your tattoo, together to create a new color in your tattoo. Or, you can add a darker shade of the existing color to your tattoo, e.g., add dark blue ink to existing light blue ink.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing the color in a tattoo is not an easy thing to do, and in many cases, it is not even a possible thing to do. As was mentioned above, it is hard to change the color of a tattoo because you can only ever add color to an existing tattoo color<\/strong>; you can never take the color out to change it. Let us that a closer look at this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Are Your Options For Changing The Colors Of A Tattoo That Is A Work In Progress?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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This would depend on what you mean by changing colors halfway through a tattoo; do you want to stop using the color that your artist has been using and start with a new color on the rest of your tattoo? Or do you want to go back and change all existing color to a new color<\/strong> instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopping One Color And Continuing With Another<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although this may look really weird depending on the design of your tattoo<\/strong>, in theory, you can definitely stop using one color of ink halfway through a tattoo in progress and continue using a new color for the remainder of the tattoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your artist may advise against it if they believe it will ruin the tattoo<\/strong> and may make it look bad, but the decision is up to you at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a chance that this change in color may come out looking really cool and making your tattoo\u2019s design look new and unique \u2013 especially if your artist manages to blend the old color into the new color<\/strong>, so it looks like one color is fading out and a new color is fading in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing All Color To Be A Brand New Color<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Changing all of the color of a tattoo to be an entirely new color is a really complicated situation and may not be possible depending on the colors that you have already<\/strong> used and the color you want to change over to.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In order to make the whole tattoo one color after half the tattoo has been done in one color and then you change your mind about the color, you would need to go over all the existing color with the new color<\/strong> and hope that it takes to it well. The steps you would need to take to make this happen is one of two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. You could finish the tattoo in the first color that you chose, and that way, when you go over all of the tattoo in the new color, whatever the new color looks like will be consistent<\/strong> throughout the whole tattoo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n