cystic acne scarring on back will tattoos cover it up?
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 at
11:13 am
I have cystic acne scarring pretty old from my teens all over my back and its embarassing. I was wondering if I should just get tattoos to cover it, but would they stilll be noticable and can you tattoo over scarring? The laser treatments and etc my dermatologist said were very painful and could make the scar look worse, in my case. Any suggestions?
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It depends on the scar, many scars won’t tatoo. However a good artist will be able to make a design that will take peoples attention away from the scar. They did some work lik that on Miami Ink, I can’t remember which episode. Tell your tatoo artist what it is you are trying to accomplish they will be able to tell you if they can do it.
I would really look into laser treatments. Ive seen people get great results…. Or there is also a procedure i heard about called camouflages where its like skin ink to blend things in….
laser treatment can be costly-but so can tattoo removal if the tattooing over the scar tissue doesnt hold- or fades and leaves a mess. tattooing over scars is a touchy issue with tattoo artists.some will automatically say no. just like most of them will not tattoo over moles-beauty marks.
tattooing over keloid scar tissue (raised scars) wont hold up 90% of the time. its uselss really.
your best bet is to shop around at your local shops and conversate with *experienced* tattoo artists about thier professionall views on it. and thier experiences tattooing over it.
you definitley do not want an artist tattooing over your fragile scar tissue if they have never done it before! it can just turn into a bigger mess sometimes.
i wish you luck
Why don’t you try the Obagi blue peel? It would probaby cost about the same and I hear it has good results.
A lot depends on the scarring, of course, but you can get a tattoo with a lot of different colors and a complicated design and it will hide or distract from the scarring rather well.
Much has been done with lasers these days – possibly your derm is not involved with them, but laser resurfacing has been promising. The problem is, it does, at times, take away normal pigment so people end up with hypopigmented areas but they seem to prefer that over the deeper scarring. There is nothing wrong with trying a test area.
Also, a lot has been done with dry needling over the scarred areas. You might want to find a tattoo artist that does that.
Regarding raised scars as someone mentioned – those are hypertrophic scars. Keloiding is rare and that is an actual growth of tissues.