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Finished off this eagle/snake with Grez a few weeks ago. Hard to get a good photo by myself! Also got this weird reaper from Chad around the same time. For the first time I'm having trouble healing red ink but it's getting there!

Yep, looks totally normal! Remember that it can take a couple of months before you fully heal. Don't pick at it and let your body do it's healing thing. As long as it's not red and hot (i.e., infected) you should be good to go!

I was able to restore posts from March through June.. unfortunately many of the images are missing and unable to be restored.

It looks fine to me. I think you are focusing on it because the lines are so thin.

Bumping this for others to re-up their latest tattoos. Here's one on me by Jeff P. at Art Work Rebels from earlier this summer:

OK folks, I was able to restore the thread, but unfortunately the most recent backup that contained it was from March, so we have lost the past 5 months or so of posts there. very sorry about that. I'm going to take measures to both prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future, and improve the backup retention system. Thanks for your patience and understanding with this, I'm sure it's frustrating for those of you who had posted there recently.

Step 2 of my cover up/re-work journey done today: Before is the red/pink flowers and after is the (slightly angry and a little bloody still) black/grey. I'm really happy with how it's looking Still got some more shading and finishing off to do, plus the first rose needs going over again as a lot of the original red has popped back out as it's healed. I'm back in another 3 weeks for another 2 hours and hopefully that should be it done then.