TOUCH UPS

I am happy to touch up my tattoos because I want my tattoos to look the best they can for as long as they can. Touch up can be required for many different reasons.

If you don’t follow aftercare instructions correctly, you can heal terribly and potentially leave awful scars. These scars can make it near impossible to see the tattoo properly let alone fix it in a touch up. Tattooing over these scars can be incredibly painful as well and sometimes they don’t hold ink the same again. The tattoo example in the photo is an example of this. After wet healing for two days, the client then had a very long shower and all the dry scab bits that hadn’t fully healed yet, then got very wet and the ink fell out. Which then created big angry scabs which took a long time to heal and resulted in these scars. 8 months later, I touched the tattoo up when the scars had settled down. After the touch up, the client wet healed correctly using the adhesive bandage (please see my aftercare section for more information) and it looks much better than it did with the scars, but it’s not as crisp as it could have been if it had healed correctly in the first place. To see a healed photo after touch up, see the healed photos on the aftercare page.

This is just one example of a tattoo that needs a touch up. Sometimes tattoos just don’t heal as well as we hope due to variables like every person is different and what works for one person might not work for the other. All we can do is look after it as best as possible to avoid needing to touch up tattoos. I am very confident in my aftercare advice and how my tattoos should heal. But due to so many variables, it can be difficult to pin point the exact reason a tattoo may heal inconsistently and might need a touch up. So please reach out if for any reason you may need a touch up and we can determine the steps from there to correct it. We want your tattoo to look it’s best forever!

Touch ups are free within an existing tattoo appointment. For example, if you are getting a new tattoo, we can organize to touch up an existing tattoo within that appointment. Circumstantially speaking, if your tattoo needs a touch up due to negligence (like the tattoo example above) it will be at your own cost. If the touch up is a specifically booked appointment for the touch up, it will come at a minimum cost of $150 with a non-refundable deposit of $100 taken at the time of making a booking. If the touch up takes longer than 30 minutes, the cost is associated with the $250/hour rate and it may have an increased deposit amount.

To book a touch up, I will need to see that tattoo first to determine how long it will take and any cost associated. Please contact me with the subject ‘touch up’ and we can organise it or swing by the studio if able.