When getting a tattoo we sometimes worry if we’re gonna regret it later on or if it’ll just look bad. Some tattoos were cool when we were teenagers but now they are just cringe. Others were always good but are aging pretty poorly and we want to refresh them.
No matter if you think your tattoo is ugly, cringe, faded out, or you just don’t want anything reminding you of your ex, there’s always a solution!
If you’re afraid of removing a tattoo and paying tons of money for laser, you can always get a good cover-up tattoo that’ll hide your regrets! Here are some ideas that might help you!
1. Colorful Butterfly Cover-Up Tattoo
I’m sure the butterfly before was also pretty once, but it was definitely time to refresh it! The new tattoo is gorgeous and perfectly covers the old one.
2. Cactus Cover-Up Tattoo
If you have a single-word tattoo and you don’t want your cover-up tattoo to be big, the best idea is to cover it with a micro-realism design. Since they’re realistic and well-shaded, you won’t be able to see anything from your past tattoo!
3. Traditional Flower Cover-Up Tattoo
Some tattoos aren’t necessarily bad, they’re just outdated or not your vibe anymore. This traditional flower is a cool idea to cover smaller dark tattoos. Since the flower is also pretty dark it covers the old tattoo really well!
4. Heart Cover-Up Tattoo
The old tattoo definitely needed to be covered with something more professionally done and as you can see it’s perfectly well hidden! The new tattoo still features a heart but it’s designed in a better and more modern way.
5. Floral Cover-Up Tattoo
If you have some colorful tattoo that needs to be covered, consider getting a floral cover-up. That’s always a good idea since you can make flowers as colorful as you want and seamlessly cover the old mess.
6. Moon Cover-Up Tattoo
The full moon is another great idea for a cover-up since it’s basically a circle that can be filled in with black or other colors. That’ll ensure you can’t see any part of the old tattoo anymore.
7. Beautiful Fish Cover-Up Tattoo
This cover-up is really gorgeous and also meaningful. If you look closely at the new tattoo you’ll see that some parts of the old tattoo are still slightly visible through the fins of the fish. With the small butterfly tattoo that remained mostly untouched, it sends a beautiful message about change and transformation we should embrace.
8. Little Angel Cover-Up Tattoo
This is another good example of how micro-realism tattoo was used to over the old design. The black ink and well-shaded parts perfectly covered the old Casper tattoo.
9. Starry Night Cover-Up Tattoo
This cover-up tattoo of Van Gogh’s painting is amazing! Choosing some classical painting with a lot of details to cover something up is really smart.
10. Floral Mandala Cover-Up Tattoo
Mandalas are great cover-up tattoos if you want to hide some less complex designs that are faded. The dot work and good shading will cover just about anything!
11. Butterfly Cover-Up Tattoo
It’s really impressive how something as simple as this fine-line butterfly can cover an old tattoo really well! This is a great idea to have in mind if you have an old tattoo of some small quote.
12. Ankle Flower Cover-Up Tattoo
The old tattoo was more than ready to be either removed or covered with something more beautiful. The tattoo artist did a great job and covered it with a black and gray flower.
13. Medusa Cover-Up Tattoo
Smaller tattoos are definitely easier to cover but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to cover the big mistake you need erased from your memory. This will just require a big design with lots of details, colors, or shading. And just like that, you’ll forget you ever had your old tattoo!