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Instead of redoing it or covering it up, it's just to simply incorporate it, into a much
larger piece. That of course, depends on the existing work, that's already on your skin.
Your artist may or may not want to incorporate, depending on the quality, how bad it is. If
you think about it, like if I'm going to do a huge back piece, and it's amazing and crisp
and sharp, and vibrant, and saturated, and all these great words. If it's all these things,
and then you've got some ugly little tattoos, thrown in with one big painting looking tattoo,
then they're going to stand out more than the rest, because it will be like, which one
of these things doesn't match? so with incorporating, expanding, redoing, or covering up, I say,
trust your artist's judgment. Your artist, assuming that you find the right artist, is
going to totally sit down with you, and work with you on it, and a lot of times, I'll have
like an existing piece in the way of the sleeve I'm doing, or something, and I'll wait until
we're almost there, to decide too, because I want to see all the new stuff, right next
to the old stuff, and see if we can salvage it, and if not, then we'll just step right
over it, and no one will even know it was there, but if it works, then we'll just kind
of tattoo around it, and then touch up whatever was there, to make it all look brand new and
pristine.