scottyg

LOL  that's a thing ?

OMG, yes. It's like an insult to change stylists in the same salon. Thankfully, I haven't had that issue with tattoo artists. 

Yep. Me, too. In the rare case that they might be butt-hurt that shouldn't be your problem and they shouldn't express that they are. 

It's not a big deal. I have work from different artists at the same shop. Go for it!

If the first artist says anything about it, reply, "screw you".
Your money, spend it how and where you like. If the first is the shop owner or co-owner he's getting a cut anyway. I have a lot of respect for artists, but they're not the end all, be all.

it actually looks normal to me for only 9 days,give it 6 weeks to heal.
different parts of our bodies heal differently,our skin varies a lot on each part of our body.

Grez made some progress on my arm. I really do love his roses...

Ok, so I got tattooed last night and didn’t go to the gym today....I guess I lied. Lol

so interesting to hear the stories.
for mine, it was like, "here's my hourly rate."
"here are some ideas; I think this one"
deposit.
show up.
let the journey begin.....

Hello all, I am new here, but I've been to this forum via Google when questions have come up. 
Glad to finally join the convo!

what's up...not new to tattoos just forums...I hope to figure this out

I got started on a new dragon tattoo myself.
This is eventually going to be an entire sleeve. So far I’ve had one two hour session. He drew it on during the first hour and tattooed the second hour. Next session is in a few days.
Work being done by Andrew Labanaris at Iron Hand Tattoo.
 

 
 

 

 
Sorry...not the best pics.
 
 

looks normal to me,
it will take at least 6 weeks to heal and longer to settle in.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but there's an old saying... "you can't polish a turd."  Maybe it'd best to just let it go, mark it up experience and get what you really want from a good artist on a different location.

Run Forrest, Run!!
Just my opinion, but I would let that heal for a couple of months and start looking for someone experienced in coverups. It's going to take time, laser and money, but I think you can save that. 

white on black is a thing - and can be good applied by the right artist, but the application of the cover that's there so far isn't good, so I wouldn't have any confidence that she's going to be able to fix this . . .

Any pics of your back piece?
I’m a musician as well and I’m curious to see this image.

More work on my arm this weekend...only a few hours scheduled but I'll take it. 

Behind it with white? What the what?

um... I don't know about the white but man I wouldn't add to it.

um... I don't know about the white but man I wouldn't add to it.

You can't cover over that big black tattoo with a water color tattoo. As @SStu suggests, start some laser treatments. This isn't going to be fast or cheap to fix. DON'T hurry, find someone really good at coverups and be prepared to spend some serious money. If you don't, you'll make an even bigger mess.
That is a big honking black tattoo on some really delicate skin in a really public spot, so it's going to take someone really good to do something with it. Good aint cheap and cheap aint good.
 

jesus, if I had a dollar for everyone who thought some obscure part of a tattoo looked phallic!
sometimes a rose is just a rose