Ink Drift??

[@katherinep708]

I love your explanation! I also found this video through a reddit comment.

[@hamratribcage]

Just came across this video through a subreddit post! I have a yellow ink drift on an inner arm tattoo I got about 6 years ago. The ink drift was within a day after getting the tattoo, and it's about two inches away from where the tattoo is. Never knew what caused it, so thank you for this informative video!

[@dozyonline]

I had this happen to a client as an apprentice and I was SHITTING MYSELF I was so stressed thinking I must have screwed the tattoo up but my mentor let me know that its just something that happened. Ended up having to add a bit of background to the tattoo in order to cover it up, thankfully customer was happy with that

[@nicopalm5936]

Dude all ur videos are extremely good content and way to well put together to be getting less then a couple thousand views

[@PennyBlackTattoo]

Thanks for the kind words--- maybe I'll get there one day... But I guess the other way to look at it is like this: the more followers/viewers, the higher the likelihood of trolls/haters, so I guess it's not alllll bad being the little guy, haha I still have quite a lot of subjects to cover, I just wish I had it in the budget to update more frequently. :)

[@lindseymckirdy1830]

Possibly ink entering into the local lymphatics and stagnating there for a period

[@smanthapowell2214]

Im 18 and a month away from graduating high school. I've been fumbling around with what I wanted to pursue as a career and I've settle on being a tattoo artist and put my art skills elsewhere and to improve upon what I already can do. I wanted to thank you for putting these videos on here as they have helped solidified the fact that this is something I want to do. And I wanted to ask seeing as I have seen this advice on just about everything I have read and hearing it from yourself is about getting a tattoo. I understand that you have to have experienced something in order to describe it to someone else and better understand it but, as I come from a family who isn't to keen on females getting tattoo's and being a bit nervous to make such a permanent commitment to something myself is they're anything you would suggest I should or should not get? In other words, what would still stand out but be conservative?

[@PennyBlackTattoo]

Hey there Smantha--- In my experience, conservative opinions don't really have too much in the way of grey area- that is to say, in the most general sense, if your family is against tattoos, they're going to be against -all- tattoos, regardless of subject matter. This is something you're just going to have to accept as part of the process: if you're serious about committing to tattoo, then that means ignoring what anyone- family included- thinks. However, I would say at the very least, stick with art that is high in beauty, low in objectionable content. Preeeetty hard to go wrong with floral work. Timeless, elegant, and beautiful. You also might want to start doing some serious homework on the anthropological history of tattoo on a global scale. It sounds like you're going to need to do some defending of your choices, and your best weapons will be knowledge of the history and culture-- so as to stop any "tattoos are for criminals and whores" rhetoric in its tracks. :)

[@smanthapowell2214]

@@PennyBlackTattoo Thank you for the advice! I'll be sure to do that. I'm hoping that this all goes down smoothly. No one has problems with me trying to be a tattoo artist. It's the actual tattoos. So i'll be sure to take up your advice on researching about tattoos to hopefully makes things a little less crazy.

[@ascendingcinder]

You don’t think it could be over saturation? Too much ink in one area, breaks the skin layer?

[@Zombosis]

That could be one of many contributing factors, but this issue isn't the result of any one specific thing, rather there are many ways it can happen.

[@thisislorn]

i’m curious, have you noticed it ever reoccur in people? say, if you’ve had this happen, are you generally more prone? (for those that didn’t have the mentioned specific circumstances like menopause, fat change, chemo, etc)

[@Zombosis]

I think the circumstances which lead one to being more susceptible to it in the first place make it more likely to re-occur, not the event itself creating a situation for reoccurance, if that makes sense... But yes, it can happen multiple times on people. Its very rare though.

[@8bitanth]

I had yellow and red ink drift, my only experience, one tattoo on my neck but its covered now

[@Zombosis]

@8bitanth Seriously?? Oh how I wish you had photos of that! Im cruising into 20 years in this game and have never ever seen that. I mean, this is a rare enough phenomenon that its not like I have hundreds and hundreds of examples to draw from, but yeah- thats intense and I really would love to have been able to see it and compared it to "standard" drift in the black/blue/green/purple range.

[@8bitanth]

@@Zombosis I can try to find the spot and circle the area and point out exactly what happened, it was mainly yellow and i wondered for so damn long what it was. I believe it had to do with this guys heavy hand too, very uncomfortable experience when i was 18. If youd like to get ahold of me i can get you an image

[@Artcorebeccsla]

Hey! You can laser ink drift! ☺️ Thanks for good content!

[@Different_Breath]

Dude I've been tattooing for 15 years, hundreds of tattoos a year, Id never seen this before and then boom, happens to 2 people last year. 2 on the same person and one on another. Both female. I was having a mental crisis like "what the hell is wrong with me, am I getting old??" For science, both people were: female, fair skinned, mid 20s.

[@Zombosis]

Ive run into many, many artists with long careers who've never encountered it. This is often why its dismissed as "blowouts", even though it is absolutely NOT blowouts, despite the higher chance of drift happening -from- blowouts, they arent locked together. I still hold to my belief that it has something to do with pigment particles getting past the dermal layer and into the subcutaneous fat layer-- without the structure of the epidermis to hold the pigment in place, it "drifts".

[@haley-and_gaming6371]

​@Zombosis you mean dermis, not epidermis. Without the dermis, it drifts. Technically tattoos don't even need the epidermis, only dermis. The epidermis is there for non tattoo purposes.

[@Zombosis]

@@haley-and_gaming6371 No, I meant what I said. If we really want to get suuuuper finiky about it, its more likely hyperdermis/subcutaneous. The long and short is, Im spitballing theories based on my experiences and no clinical study or medical backup. It just SEEMS like the behavior of ink drift is pigment particles with nothing to bind them in place- like fat under the skin. We quibble over specificity of terms for little reason here...

[@TV-qx6zy]

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[@OldManPaxusYT]

I wonder if rubbing and massaging would help make it re-absorb or do so faster?.... ^ Comment for algorithm + 👍 'd #Paxus Rating: ☆☆☆☆

[@jjbuschpokemon6846]

That side view... a lil much

[@wilbridgeforth4670]

Ink drift... is the same as blow out but the extreme version of blow out, you're using semantics to create a new name. Blow out is blow out is blow out