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Memorial tattoo help (slrpnk.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by dharmacurious@slrpnk.net to c/tattoos@lemmy.ml
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Hey, folks, My mom just passed away, and I want a memorial tattoo for her. It will be my first, and I'm nervous.

We would play the NYT letterboxed every night, and so I designed a custom board that's solvable with an inside joke as well as her name. If anyone isn't familiar, the game is linked. I want it to basically look just like that board, but in black and white. The letters themselves I have picked out and know their placement.

The thing I'm concerned about is the letters blurring over time. I don't have a lot of money, so a friend's sister is going to be doing it for me for free. She has experience, 3 or so dozen real life tattoos, but she is new, and she's never done color before. I've seen her work, and it's good. But I'm worried about longterm, with this being letters and fine lines. Does it look like a viable idea? Do these sorts of things generally hold up fairly well?

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/letter-boxed

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[–] mantra@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fine details blur less, or at least more slowly, with ink around them. So might be a good idea to have a halo of white or some other color around the letters, or perhaps have them all in a tasteful frame of a more subdued color. I also agree with the other comment that you may want to save up to have an experienced artist do the piece; a more practiced hand will get the lines crisper and do less damage, which will help them stay better longer.