Appreciate the support my friend, glad to hear they’ve been useful to you, cheers!

@@EphemeralRemy I'll send you photos if you'd like. I'd appreciate feedback if it inspires any response from you. I'm just so stoked to see tattoos that I consider spiritual, and even more stoked to be delving into the mix. Keep it golden ✨️ 💛

I think the other issue is it really can't just be done like a regular tattoo. These require a lot of maintenance. It's a completely different level of dedication than most would make.

I remember mixing up titanium powder in my dads shop to make white in the 80s, the powder and glycerin worked for solid white

I love this comment because I just came from another video where he was talking about the sparse use of white in old school practices bc of it turning pink and how they would commonly use blue to supplement it. Exactly what you said so it's cool to see that confirmed

Hello Brandon, now that you have skin in the game, I´d like to ask you a question: If you are asked to tatoo an arm with a white rose in a black background, wouldn´t it be better to tatoo the rose first and then black all around, than blacking the whole arm out first and then tatoo the white rose on a black canvas? wouldn´t it be quicker, cheaper and more effective?

@@ceylonin7289 You wont get the same effect, also white on un inked skin doesnt tend to take in very large areas and you have to worry about blood mixing with it and turning it another color, usually a pinkish color. Also another thing, you would have to worry about is dragging blood and black ink into your white that you did first. Im not saying you cant ever do lighter colors first because sometimes you just have to, but White really is only good for small areas unless your going over another color, and then you have to layer it and is a different effect. If you were to attempt it the way you described, i would bloodline the rose, do the background and wait until the day after and do the rest but dont expect much results. I wouldnt do it for many reasons

Happy to be of some inspiration in my friend! Cheers

Definitely a very well understood tattoo

Bit of both honestly, that spot is the shop is super bright, cheers!

The skies the limit for sure!

@@EphemeralRemy I know right! If done correctly it's a gorgeous style. Are going to end up blacking out your fingernails btw, or just going with matte black gel polish?

Eventually I might, but no time soon

@@EphemeralRemy I know we'd all love to see the process if you do. How's your wife's pumpkin sleeve going, so far what I've seen is amazing

She’s done the black first pass but needs smoothing, and there’s still a few pumpkins to go haha

They aren’t done with it yet, so I’ll show it off again when they do

@@EphemeralRemy Thank you :)

I’d say go for it honestly haha

Definitely agree

Can’t wait to see!

Cheers buddy!

Definitely

Haha cheers

Anything worth doing once has to be worth doing as many times as it takes is what I always say, cheers!

Haha thanks buddy, you wouldn’t believe how much times goes into getting that on there every episode!

It is a real shame, and honestly I feel bad for a lot of people trying to get this work done with so many people believing it can’t be done, it’s forcing a lot of people out into the cold to some degree, laser is not a perfect route either.

@@EphemeralRemy I agree absolutely

That’s only the case if you do it wrong honestly

None. They all require several passes

I sure will

My best advise is to watch my vlogs, I go over how we do mine every week

People should learn and grow, I’ve been an open mind and an open book, more people should follow my example in that

I’ve seen it done, but laser is a very gradual and subtle result as well, so it should return a very similar result as white ink, but it might be even fuller, that being said it’s not a bad idea to be trying. Cheers and thanks for watching

@@EphemeralRemy That's what I was wondering, cause this was like a mandala design & it looked white after 1 pass, but lining it up again seems really risky... I just started learning on my legs & fake skin, I wanted to be a tattoo artist since 85' when mom had to sign for a stick & poke cover up. Only kid in 9th grade with pro tat, hahaha. Unfortunately, addiction took decades of my life... Thanks for replying, take it easy.

Anytime my friend, same to you, best wishes.

Yes of course. Go look through my page, I had several bright red roses on my head that are now white

@@EphemeralRemy ok, those roses look really good and i like that velvet red on your shoulder. thanks for that. does it have to be a solid bg for it to work, or do you think its possible to change the shape? just for example if i had a coloured rubric cube, could i possibly change it to a solid gray box?

@roseoverdose6451 it’s entirely possible to change the shape yes, you should watch the transformation of the rose on the back of my head, it’s been done many different ways

@@EphemeralRemy ok, awesome. thank you. i guess the number of passes will depend on a number of things, but that gives me hope i can get it done. i appreciate your work, im a big fan of it.

@roseoverdose6451 cheers

I’ve done it already many times

This is a very old video, I’ve done tons since this. I haven’t been limited with anything, you can do whatever you want over black, and I have. Currently I’ve been tattooed close to 2400 hours

@EphemeralRemy For real!? Damn bro so you can put blue and green and it'll shine?? 2400? That's crazy! That's what tho bro keep doin ya thang.

@user-fi6wi8gl8r yup I’ve done every color over black since this

@EphemeralRemy Damn!! Thats wild, I'm a black man so since I can't take a lot of colors I guess I thought it went the same for yall with your whole body black. Did they enhance the stuff inside the paint?

Ive done yellow, it shows, I’ll be doing some blue soon

I’ll definitely be giving that a look!

@@EphemeralRemy I’m stoked for it bud. Keep up the dope content!

it’s cause they’re canadian

It’s all about lighting, everyone’s blackout looks lighter in some lighting than others, check out my vlogs for example

White shows up better over black actually than on its own

@@EphemeralRemy thanks good to know