Blastovers Tag

A growing trend within the tattoo industry, blast-overs are cover-ups that intentionally leave the old work visible beneath the brand new, allowing your tattoos to grow and evolve with you Last 12 months, Hackney-based tattoo artist Suki Lune asked a resident artist at her studio to inscribe an abstract star shape excessive of the Kangayam cow she’d had inked onto her arm five years previously. The thick lines of Riccardo Raffin’s design plowed over the cow motif, striking across its head and body with little regard for the unique tattoo. By itself, Riccardo Raffin’s design is daring and visually striking. When stamped so unapologetically on top of one other tattoo, it becomes defiant,...