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Summary: Hiding a tattoo is possible with makeup or clothes, but it is advised not to put chemicals on a new tattoo for covering up purposes until after it has healed. Conceal a tattoo when unsure about its impact on others or a job with tips from an experienced tattoo artist in this free video on body art.
Brandon Bond was voted Artist of the Year in 2005 at the South Florida Tattoo Convention. He was born on the small island of Perdido Key in Florida. He began his artistic endeavors due...read more
"If you want to hide it, it is possible. You don't want to put any of those chemicals on it while it's healing though. You want to wait until afterwards. So if you want to get it somewhere where you're going to have to have to use makeup to hide it take a few days off from work first and get the tattoo, let it heal up and then when you go back to work put a little makeup over it. However I've found with the vast majority of clients that are always super obsessed with "don't let it come below here because I don't want it to stick out because I have to hide it". That whole mentality always come back and go bigger because they realize I don't know what I was worried about, they end up showing their bosses and are like check it out and it's like oh wow cool, and then everybody wants to come get one. So especially now days, hiding tattoos stuff like that it's it's not near as important as it is. We tattoo grandmothers, judges, mayors. Like drug dealers, gangsters, everybody in other words; it's not just for sailors and wars anymore. Tattoos are for everybody and there is no tattoo demographic anymore. There is a difference between a heavily tattooed person and a regular tattoo person for sure and I think that's the distinction. Where as 10, 20, 30 years ago it was oh my god you have a tattoo. Now it's more like oh my god you don't have a tattoo."
eHow Article: How Can I Hide a Tattoo?