Can small tattoo's be detailed?

Working with skin isn't like working with any other medium. You may be able to paint the Mona Lisa on the head of a pin, but you definitely can't tattoo the same thing in a 1"x1" area. As your skin and the ink age, things start to break down. Eventually you'll end up with a blob of black ink that looks horrible.

Small tattoos limit the amount of detail you can have. The bigger they are, the more detail you can have and the better they'll look as they age. You have to be flexible on size if you want the tattoo to look good for years to come. It's not about needle size or the tattooist commandeering your idea, it's about what's the most practical in the long run. "Small" is a dirty word generally.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a tattooist who will do exactly what you want, but don't come crying to him or her when it looks like a shapeless blob in 5 years.

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A good artist could get a suprising amount of detail into a tattoo that small, but how it will look down the road is the question. Find a artist that you trust, tell him what you're thinking of, and they'll let you know how much detail you can have without it ending up too blurry in twenty years. Also the more sun exposure it gets, the faster it will fade out. Make sure it always has sun block on it when it's not covered. For something that size, I'd expect $75 to $100. It depends on the artist, whether they charge by piece or by hour. Just don't go bargain hunting for tattoos, in general you get what you pay for, and you don't want to spend the rest of you life with a tattoo that looks like you got it on clearance. lol hope this helps!

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Can small tattoo's be detailed?

I got my first tat a little over a year ago (a shooting star on my foot). It came out bigger then I had hoped. The tat artist told me that he couldn't make it any smaller b/c then the stars would look like dots. I don't know much about tat's but I feel like he couldn't used a...

Yes a small tattoo can be detailed. It depends on skill level and what type of needle. The tattoo will still look good if you take care of it.

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Im afraid when it comes to small tattoos, they can't be very detailed.

1. Its actually pointless, you won't even be able to see the detail

2. You didn't go to a crappy place, most tattoo artists wouldn't dare to go tiny tiny detail in case they mess it up.

3. Instead just go for something a bit different and bigger or lose some detail.

Hope this helped.

no its true that you can't have something detailed too small or you run the risk of it just looking like a big blob of nothing!! A good tattooist wont do something they think will look like crap anyway

Go BIG. Your artist is right.

You went to a crappy place the first time because every place is differnt