Cover up tattoos are a great way to get past any tattoo mistakes you might have made or even for the basic cover up of your older or faded tattoo. As a tattoo lover you would want a tattoo to remain with you for eternity and to ensure that you can always get a new one instead of getting rid of your unwanted tattoos. 

Cover up tattoos are probably the best choice because of one main reason - the familiarity. You do not have to go through a procedure to take care of the tattoo which will take multiple sessions or cost almost a fortune. You are already familiar with the tattooing process of going to an artist, choosing and finalizing a design and then getting your tattoo. For your cover up you can just consult your previous artist. Additionally, you have your after care products already with you and there is literally nothing new that you need to be scared of. That definitely is unbeatable because we all love our comfort. 

Cover ups cheaper and quicker as compared to laser removals. If you are still confused as to what to choose, consult your artist for cover up tattoos. They are the professionals. They will help you in a better way. 

The things that you need to consider while getting a cover up tattoo is the color of your existent tattoo, the design of the cover up tattoo based on the older one, the artist, of course, and lastly, the age of the old tattoo.

Here, you can see that a darker shade of the previous quote tattoo was covered up by using a darker sketch over it, in the new flower tattoo. Even though the old tattoo seemed dark, the new tattoo has a mix of vibrant colors

A faded sun tattoo at the nape of the neck has been beautifully covered up with a huge flower tattoo. As you can see clearly, none of the old tattoo is visible and mostly because the new tattoo is darker at that particular area of cover up. 

 

Symbols mostly have relevant significance for the people who get them tattooed but that does not mean that it cannot be covered up with something just as relevant to your life or personality. A music head would love to get their favorite musical persona tattooed on their hand. Here, you can see that the person chose to go with the musical persona and covered up the older symbol tattoos. 

Here, the green symbols of the older tattoo have been covered up using the bright blue color of the flower. Again, it is evident that tattoos need not be covered up with black ink only. However, notice that the old tattoo here is quite faded which makes it possible to use lighter color for the cover up tattoo. 

The older butterfly tattoo is significantly darker here and that has been cleverly covered with the cover up tattoo's darker part. The new bird cage tattoo is prettier and has colors in it too but the part that needs to be covered has the black part of the cover up tattoo. Hence, you can get colored tattoos as cover up tattoos even when the older tattoo is darker but you will need to have such incorporations of black color as well.