a couple tips
1. don't find a great tattoo on google and take it to an artist who is lesser or does a different style and think he can make something "almost as good"
2. Laser. If you get some light gray tattoo, yes you can get it removed pretty easily (think a faded gray rose). if you get red, color, traditional, its permanent.
3. chest piece - watch getting a full chest piece, it may end up looking like your wearing a bra or have tits. small tattoos on chest and text always look fine
4. no you don't need to skip your next workout (germaphobes might be scared of the germs thats a different issue). no you really don't have to care for them, I never put shit on my back because I can't rech back there to put balm on it, healed fine. just don't get scratched by your dog on it you'll be good, no need to baby them.
Ill agree and disagree with some of this...
I know people who have to absolutely care for their tattoo every second or it’ll come out like shit... For me personally, my first sleeve (one I want to laser off to be faded enough to get a badass coverup) I got when I was 18 and thought I knew what I was doing etc and the artist was terrible lol the tattoos healed just like the artists work... All my other work, done by award winning artists, all healed amazing with minimal care on some of them...
I have heard that as well about color tattoos being harder to laser off, thankfully I’m a black/grey kinda guy lol so that sleeve I want removed is coming off soon...
And for #3, did you mean someone only getting a full chest piece with no sleeves or anything?? Because if you’ve got sleeves or other work it looks badass in my opinion.. I’ve got both ribs (one side my whole armpit down to my hip) and both sleeves, I’ll be doing a small piece on my hand (not covering full hand but doing one on the side of my hand and one on my palm) and I’m going to work on ideas for a full chest piece. My artist does all my work custom, with the exception of the portraits I have done because they’re portraits but the background on them is all custom... My chest will be full custom art of I don’t know what yet lmao