 So I'm thinking adding like maybe meticulous somewhere around here Yep, all right Why am I nervous? What is this? I don't even get nervous to tattoo. Why am I nervous to ever see shirt? What is this? All right About a ribbon so I can do meticulous. Let's see Okay, okay Feel a little rusty here looks like a vintage Airbrush design. What can I do with the top? Let's see. Let me double check how you spell meticulous Okay, all right, there you go. Now, let's remove the sticker There you go Damn, I like it. I like it. Yeah, I was definitely rusty. I could feel my hand very tense You know, I didn't I wasn't going with the flow But uh, hey, I had fun and let me get close Close up of it Let's see Go What's today the six the seventh the seventh lucky number seven first client of the year I took off maybe like a whole month. It was exactly a whole month of Of me taking a break. We have my client here. He actually got tattooed a year ago Like first one of last year. Yeah, he ended up getting this cover up here the skull I'm gonna put a little video so you guys can remember what I what I ended up covering up on him It was a virgin Mary on the chest today's project. We're gonna be covering up this tattoo right here. I Got the piece of tattoo on my chest and it's just like no matter what you got There's like a center of attention as soon as I take my shirt off. So I wanted to make this video I only asked him to come in today to do a couple of touch-ups the reason why I wanted to record today I was not playing on recording today, but I figured that it was a good a good video to record I feel like a lot of you just see the fresh piece and how would I say it? the negative Damn, I'm trying for words too. We said it too earlier right now. What was I know we were just talking about that There you go, you ever have bad skin reaction. Yes, so we never I never really touched based on that I never really talked about it going dead with that and I think it's very important to talk about this topic because I don't want any Of you to just go in into doing a cover-up and then expecting it to just heal perfectly, you know Sometimes things can happen. Sometimes skin skin can react in a certain way and we can't really control it Sometimes when the skin is too sensitive or you applied a certain product or maybe you ended up, you know We're overworking the skin because it can't happen, you know, even to the best of us. He can't happen so what happened in this situation was that towards the end of the session what happened was that he was in pain it is the chest area the nipple area was super sensitive and What happened was that you know what I'm gonna apply a spray Which it was at that time basic in where he had an a bad allergic reaction to the latter cane on the areas That he ended up getting a bad allergic reaction was here and you can see the scabs on this area you see this area right here the chin area the nose and a little bit here so When he ended up, you know, he ended up sending me pictures of what was going on What were you thinking when everything was going on? Well, I just felt like it was a really bad Skin rash like I felt like my skin just was really irritated and The more product I put on it the more it was getting worse Yeah, it was getting really moist and I just feel like it was never I was never allowing it to breathe or heal Yeah, until you finally told me I just stop Stop doing all that. Yeah, all kinds of products 2000 my fault is using different products I even used hydrocoders on one They help stop the burning but that didn't work really I Ended up staying in contact with him until he was done healing once I Saw that it was no longer something to worry about I was like, okay cool now We just got a plan for the touch up and stuff like that But a lot of things happened that year that we couldn't we just couldn't meet so we could have finished it up And be able to make those touch ups, but a year later. I love the fact how he healed up Like me too. I love how he healed up. Most of the areas are super dark. You can't see the previous tattoo art Also, this is a year old healed So I'm really happy to see it after a year how the way healed up I'm excited. I mean the only areas I really got a touch I really do I really got to do a touch up on is here this area here on this area and the chin and We'll see if I touched the nipple Oh I'm really gonna enjoy this video because I never had a chance to talk about this This circumstances, you know situations that happen. It's rare when this happens But when it does happen the number one thing that I'm gonna suggest is for you guys to do not panic first of all Don't feel like oh, I messed up. You know, I'm such a bad artist. Don't put yourself down Don't do that because it is it is that is that's not the case Sometimes things happen that skin can be acting a certain way sometimes you can't control the way somebody skin is gonna heal and The best thing that you can do is just be informed now Depending on how it looks in this situation his was very Sensitive, so I immediately I immediately told them stop applying products You know when you take a long shower then your your scab looks very wrinkly wrinkly very nasty And then once I told them stop applying everything and let it just naturally heal because our bodies are designed to naturally heal So I told them stop and just let it happen Here we go a year later my guy Nice to see you again There you go Now when it comes down to matching the tone That's just pure practice. I wish I can tell you there's a formula that you can you know Oh, yeah, you know like you can just mix this and that and you'll get the same tone You got it going and do it as much as you can so you can Memorize it. It's all muscle memory You're able to see it and you're gonna be able to know exactly what tone you use especially after a year man You got to be able to know your tones by memory We're getting there for sure Lapenda hit the technique right here little excess circles scribbles The left And the head the technique my guy And the head the technique has been used for a few by a few artists now they be tagging me and share on Instagram like it I'll be sharing it too. So whoever has used up and the head the technique tag me And if you don't know what it is, this is what it is you just do circles exes scribble all over the skin and Reminds you like a tada you get texture Homage keep telling myself I can take it. I can take the nipple thing. I mean, I got my nipples fucking pierced before But I was like young and dumb What a good excuse It's time I Want to record my last time I tried recording myself and they couldn't Hey, can you record this? Last time I tried recording and I just Oh, yeah, I did So young You can record now. You're so young I'm a man Your hands up Super close angle of it Hi hands up I'm sweaty now I gotta make sure it's fully focused Here we go Ready Get your rot in the banger, mate I still get my other nipple blacked out, too Next you're just a nipple just get I'm gonna get that one whites with a ying and a ying Got it Come on Got it. Just get used to the pain Okay, that's one Oh There you go, you did it my guy you did it man. You did it. You did it So we finally completed this This quick touch up on his chest like I mentioned before it is very important to talk about this topic because I don't want you guys thinking that You know everything's gonna come out perfect every time and I think that it's very important for you guys to know this information in case that happens to you You already know what to do I know that there's a lot of questions on my Instagram about oh, you know, how do your tattoos healed after a year or Sometimes they just very you know, sometimes people just comments like oh, that's not gonna hold up because I don't know why and That black is not gonna look black after some time and I think you should not have your doubts when you're dealing with Mr. Oh, the people I can you know speak for but she's man I first I was really really nervous because the way it was like peeling and scabbing But as soon as you told me to stop just let the body heal itself like Sure work came out and the body did its thing and you couldn't even see the tattoo and then Touchups are not bad. I thought the nipple is gonna be a lot worse than they thought Oh Honest dude, I really appreciate you for because a lot of artists when you and hit you up It's like a one-done Chuck the deuce la vista baby And you like you kept in touching me the whole year and and I love that shit man Yeah, I know due to some circumstances last year, you know, it got too busy things started happening, you know sickness all over the place Everything was very Hectic last year, but we got to meet finally a year later And I think my favorite part about the touch up is that on the areas that I ended up touching up You can't really see the difference between what's fresh and what's healed And I think that's my favorite part because I was able to match the same tones that I used last time So that's that's that's one thing that I'm Really happy with the fact that you can't really tell Where the touch ups happen, you know, it's like it's already healed. Yeah, and That's that's basically it. So I think that's it. I think that's it for this video nice and clean and simple nothing too complicated straight to the point So thank you guys for coming back and watching this brand new video And if you are tattoo artist, I hope you learned something from this video And if you are tattoo enthusiast, I hope you were entertained. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace