This old guy comes in today and wants his old skull and snake redone. I am always a fan of cleaning up and revitalizing older tattoos. I always try to talk the old timers into keeping it as a cool old tattoo, but I think the aesthetic of the aged tattoo only looks cool to tattooers.
After posting this on a site Greg Dyer from Goldfields Tattoo in SF hit me up and showed me the original flash that the tattoo came from. An old page of Greg Irons…
So here is the flash that my customer pointed to on a wall 25 years ago, how his tattoo aged, and what we did to bring it back from the dead.
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