Top Female Cover Up Tattoos for Women

Sometimes tattoos are a great way to express yourself, but other times, your old ink doesn’t really represent who you are anymore, or maybe the tattoo just didn’t work out the way you had planned. Cover-up tattoos can transform old ink and make it look like new art! Here we discuss a few top tattoo cover-ups for women to give you some inspiration, and to help you come to a decision for your next piece of body art.

Why Consider Cover-Up Tattoos?

Before we all start making judgements about specific designs, it’s important to first understand why someone would choose to get a cover-up tattoo. There can be good reasons:

Piercings bushwick-style cracked or faded: As you age, tattoos turn less attractive through the spread of clutter on the skin, pigments depleting, and the design becoming less distinct than your carefree younger days. Personal taste: What you loved about gothic culture at 20 might no longer raise your pulse in thirties or forties.

Life changes or a shift in your personal beliefs may cause some tattoos to seem irrelevant or even undesirable for other reasons – a poor job by your tattoo artist can result in designs you would want to camouflage or may even want to modify. How to choose the Right Tattoo Artists.

The artist is the most important person to choose for a cover-up project as someone with extensive experience succeeding in cover-up work is best equipped to deal with the challenges you face. Be sure to find an artist who has an extensive portfolio of work examples. This artist should confidently be able to transform old tattoos into incredible new creations, no matter the size, colour or placement. Be sure to talk to them about your idea too, as they can offer invaluable input on what will and won’t work given your existing inkwork, size and colour requirements.

Top Cover-Up Tattoo Ideas for Women Floral Designs.

Another common reason women seek a cover-up tattoo is for getting rid of a bad or embarrassing tattoo they may have gotten long ago. Floral tattoos are chosen here because of their beauty and versatility as a design; they can be varied in shape, size and colour and thus serve as the perfect solution.

Roses: One of the classic old-school picks, a rose can be shaded sufficiently to cover more-intense inks. Peonies: Having wavy, layered petals means peonies can cloak more of the skin if you’re going big.

Lotus Flowers: Perfect for covering up and imbued with personal symbolism, meaning you’re likely to love them just as they are.

Mandalas

Mandalas are also circular images of balance and order and are an excellent way to cover old tattoos while creating fresh and arresting new artwork. Their customisable, elaborate patterns make mandalas a fine vehicle for integrating details from old tattoo designs while creating a new pattern to cover old tattoo designs thereby offering a new route for covering old ink without altering existing art work, and also another opportunity to camouflage old ink: with superior coverage since it can cover old tattoos with ink from other places on your body.

Animal and wildlife tattoos are also excellent to cover up other tattoos, their intricate design nearby an older tattoo will simply hide it.

Butterflies typically symbolize metamorphosis, yet with the right colour combination and patterning can be taken from realistic to abstract and be used in a wide variety of projects. Owls, eagles and sparrows, just to name a few, can possess different symbols of beauty as well.

Big Cats: Lions, tigers and leopards are thorough representations of the Brutalism style, with their strong shapes forming larger dynamic shapes. 4. Abstract and Geometric Designs.

Abstract and geometric artwork makes the ideal cover-up as it can be tailored to suit existing ink and stretch on the skin to create a more modern design.

In dotwork tattoos, hundreds of thousands of dots can be used to shade areas, fill in shapes and encompass larger areas, such as legs and stomachs, in intricate patterns. Established designs and shapes with clean lines are updated to give a more modern and artistic feel.

Watercolor Tattoos

Watercolour tattooing emulates the look of watercolour painting because of its subtle use of colour and only a few lines that blend together, layered on top of one another. Watercolour tattoos, in fact, provide an excellent cover-up option for old pieces with an artistic, light look. These can also be seen as complementing old tattoo designs previously done with large, dark pieces by giving the recipient new options with bold, bright, happy, and light designs with a bit of a weightless feel.

Script and Typography

If you, for example decided to cover up some outdated anchors, you’ll want to think about incorporating phrases like ‘I do, I swear’ or ‘Overboard for you’ or a quote from Edgar Allan Poe, or maybe you would be inspired to imbed names of people you love within the body art. Incorporate script within existing tattoos, mixing and matching, with thoughtfully placed fonts to cover up old ink, and create meaning in amongst the tattoo networks: you could disguise old ink with inks that are thoughtfully applied and carefully placed to cover up tattoos in a meaningful way.

Mythical Creatures and Fantasy Artwork

Cover-up body art, which makes use of beautiful mythical creatures for fantasy lovers, could also serve as a form of disguise.

Dragons: Dragon tattoos have long been associated with power and magnificence.

Phoenixes symbolize renewal by turning an old tattoo into something meaningfully new and beautiful.

Mermaid: Because of the elements from ocean life and the human form, mermaid tattoos provide maximum coverage with their long flowing locks and tails. *- Key factors for a cover-up tattoo success.

1. Size and Placement

The size of a tattoo you want to cover up usually has to be greater than the area you want to cover because most tattoo machines can’t go over an existing stretched surface. Plan for the possibility of your painting rolling into a new area when setting up cover-ups; coordinate the placement of new tattoo designs on your body’s natural lines and curves with a tattoo artist and create something that flows with the new piece.

2. Color Choices

Darker tones tend to cover ink stains better than lighter ones, but good artists will use lighter shades and shading to create more interesting and varied cover-ups.

3. Design Complexity

Varied line work, shading and outlines can make even the most faded of tattoos difficult to see, while adding a beautiful and dynamic new piece – this should guarantee you a cover-up!

4. Healing Process

You certainly want your cover-up tattoo to heal up, and to keep looking its best over the years. You must pay close attention to proper aftercare, as anything less will result in a scarred-up mess. Keep up with all the aftercare directions provided by your artist: keep it clean and moisturised, keep the sun off it as long as you can, don’t scratch at the scabs if you’re told not to, etc.

We also have our Inspiration Gallery – a collection of inspirational cover-up tattoos, created by artists across the world, meaning you can be inspired by their work and choose the best cover-up for you. Remember, it’s an art, not a task, and you need to show it the same respect.

1. Floral Transformations

Before: A tribal design showing through an arrangement of roses and lilies. Peony Perfection: An outdated name tattoo covered by a beautiful peony flower design. Peony Masterpieces.

Before and After: Two intricate, floral-bouquet mandala masterpieces. And Peony Perfection, which covered up a name tattoo, with itself.

2. Mandala Masterpieces

Pretend Perfection: Hide a dated tattoo gracefully behind a beautiful mandala Geometric evolution: Evolve an old design into a whole new one – mandalas are like scribbly ivy that can completely transform a wall.

3. Animal Magic Butterfly Renewal:

Turn an old, faded heart into an eye-catching butterfly for renewal!

Birds in flight: this post’s title is an old quotation cunningly disguised behind a photo of flocking birds in front of a cloudy sky, whilst a swarm of birds in flight are cleverly arranged so as to form the word ‘quotation’.

4. Abstract Art Dotwork

This delight is an intricate dotwork tattoo encompassing a tribal band. Geometrical Transformation is an old tattoo that is included and canyonised with new art to give it a natural seamless transition. Watercolour Wonders is arranged to have vibrant colours for you to discover.

5. Soft and Subtle:

Another popular stratagem is to ‘tiptoe’ the tattoo over with a classic watercolour splash! Also: this makes for a seriously easy coverup! Bold.

Revive: Are your cushions getting a little tired? Consider brightening up the sofa with watercolours that feature striking hues.

6. Script and Typography Meaningful Quotes:

And an inspiration quotation scribbled over an old piece could also use the boost.

Elegant Script: Converting the name change into a clean elegant script design that will fit in with the existing tattoo.

7. Fantasy and Myth

Dragon Majesty: Transforming an old design into a striking dragon ornament; Phoenix Rising covering up an outdated one for an explosive look!

Final Thoughts

The cover-up tattoo was the perfect way for me to reimagine my body art from the fresh perspective of someone who is not the person she used to be. The resurgence of cover-up tattoos is one of fashion and culture’s current favourite expressions of personal reinvention. Just like dolphins and mandalas, and bears and barbed wire – a cover-up layout has to be thought through, an artist with vision must be found, and you have to be prepared to let the result transform you.

With their words and pictorial examples to inspire you, you’ll be ready to start constructing your own cover-ups – and literally create something beautiful.