Coloring tattoos is a crucial technique for enhancing your skills as an artist and making your work vibrant and lively. Mastering effective coloring is key to creating bold and impressive tattoos for both beginners and experienced artists. This time, we will introduce basic knowledge about color tattoos, recommended inks, and aftercare to keep your ink looking vibrant.
Choosing the Right Machine
A suitable machine is essential for smooth and consistent coloring.
We recommend machines with a stroke length of 3.0mm-3.5mm.
This is known as a medium stroke, providing a safe and comprehensive needle length that is highly versatile, especially recommended for beginners. However, it is particularly recommended for color packing and shading.
Moderate speed, hit, and recoil will greatly support achieving vibrant colors while minimizing damage to the client's skin.
Recommended Inks
Before you start with color tattoos, make sure you are using high-quality tattoo inks that are easy to learn with.
Inks included in tattoo kits are often cheap and not intended for use on human skin, and can be too watery, leading to problems with color retention.
Here are some recommended inks to avoid such quality issues and improve quickly.
Solid Ink
Solid Ink is a tattoo ink manufacturer based in the U.S. that uses only the highest quality plant-derived ingredients. The dyes are highly concentrated, producing bright colors and maximum saturation.
In addition to a variety of colors, it is characterized by a wide range of products not found in other manufacturers, such as matte black (very opaque and deep black), lining black (perfect for both thick and thin outlines), and white tones.
They also offer sets of 4 or 12 bottles, making them ideal for beginners who want to quickly stock up on versatile colors.
World Famous Ink
Loved by tattoo artists worldwide, World Famous Ink is recognized as a premium quality tattoo ink boasting high pigment content and high flow.
Its greatest feature is its rich color variation. It expands artists' stylistic choices and allows them to create more vibrant and vivid works.
All World Famous Ink colors, manufactured in the U.S., are made from only plant-derived ingredients and are sterilized by gamma rays, ensuring their safety.
Our store carries a wide range of World Famous colors, including various color ink sets curated by our professional team.
Radiant
Radiant Colors is a brand headquartered in California, manufacturing tattoo inks with the concept of vibrant, long-lasting, and easy-to-apply colors. Radiant collaborates with renowned top artists such as Angelo Nicolella and Luis Bonilla to produce original inks and sets.
The Angelo Nicolella Portrait Set is suitable for creating realistic portraits and will maximize the appeal of color realism works.
For those looking for vivid colors perfect for newschool or bold outlines, the LUIS BONILLA NEW SCHOOL SET is recommended.
Of course, individual bottles of ink also boast high quality.
Aftercare
Once the perfect color tattoo is done, the next step is perfect aftercare. Typically, color inks have a lighter pigment than black inks, causing them to fade faster.
The best way to slow down fading is to provide the best aftercare and make the healing process as healthy and easy as possible. Here are some recommended products to help the tattoo set while keeping the colors vibrant.
BOKUSAI Inked Gel
Until now, creams and gels for tattoo care were dominated by Vaseline, foreign brand creams, and body butter.
Bokusai Inked Gel is a Japanese-made tattoo care product that challenges this trend, with all processes, from manufacturing (including containers) to packaging, carried out in Japan.
It is also a quasi-drug approved by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, containing abundant active ingredients that support tattoo healing, such as allantoin, which protects and conditions the skin from swelling, pain, and itching, and placenta extract, which supports hormone balance.
Hustle Butter Deluxe
Loved by many tattoo artists, "Hustle Butter" dominates the aftercare market.
Among them, the recommended Hustle Butter Deluxe is made from mango, coconut, papaya, and shea butter, and is 100% plant-based natural organic material.
In addition to its effectiveness as an aftercare product, many people love the sweet scent that spreads the moment it's opened, making it a popular item.
It can also be used as a lubricant during tattoo procedures, not just for aftercare.
To achieve effective coloring, choose the right tools and appropriate treatments. Don't compromise on the tools you use to create amazing work, and find what suits your style! FLAG TATTOO SUPPLY offers a wide range of high-quality tattoo supplies. Please check them out!
Writer Tattoo-loving staff M
