Planning A Flower Tattoo?
Posted by Tattooaholic
I’m planning on flowers as part of a tattoo design and I was wondering what colors show up the best and how much detail can I get in a piece that’s about 7 or so inches long and 3ish inches wide? Thank you!
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Category: Flower Tattoos 
Tags: Flower Colors, Flower Tattoos, tattoo design, Tropical Flower Tattoos
2 Responses to “Planning A Flower Tattoo?”
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sebastian94538 Says:
December 14th, 2009 at 2:43 pmI have a half sleeve of flowers. I have red, purple, pink and orange (mainly) I have pretty fair skin and the red and pink pop the most. People constanly comment on the color of those two flowers. If you have fair skin I’d go with cool shades, purple, blue, pink etc. Those colors will work best with your complexion. If you are warm tone, then yellows, reds & oranges will look best. It’s almost like picking out make-up that matches your complexion.
Your artist should be able to get tons of detail into your flowers at that size. Especially if he goes down to a single needle.
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Sakyant Says:
March 31st, 2010 at 6:28 amIt depends on your skin complexion, as wellas which complementary colors are used.. for example, if bright canary yellow is tattooed adjacent to dark and royal blue.. then the blue will look stronger and the yellow will seem much brighter, due to contrasting of complementary colors.
If you have darkle complexion better not to use reds, oranges etc, and go for blues and greens. An accomplished artist will know the best options and advise you..
As to sebastian’s comment about single needle and details.. too much detail in small area is going to result in a mush after a few years. Better to keep it simple and use contrast, color and shade to pick out the effect. Tattoo is not compatible with miniature details. Maybe it looksgood for a year or so but it all washes together later.
