How can I get a tattoo if my skin is constantly expanding from weight lifting?
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 at
12:13 pm
I started lifting about a year and a half ago (the september after I graduated high school) and I gained over 60lbs of muscle. I have stretch marks all over and keep getting more. I want a tattoo, but how can I if my skin will grow stretch marks? Am I limited to only small tattoos?
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what do you need a tattoo for? are you trying to be freak of the week?
if you’re going to continue lifting like you do, then you’re not gonna be able to get a tattoo. It will just be wasted money on your part because the stretch marks can go over the tattoo and distort it along with the rapid stretching of the skin. Also when you get older and lose your muscle mass, the tattoo will get even more distorted because your skin will be looser.
Even small tattoos will distort if you gain too much mass in a short period of time.
I would say you’ll be unable to get one if you keep lifting.
I have to agree. I fluctuated a lot with weight for a while and didn’t think about that and had a couple of tats done…they looked great and then…not so much. They would look good now if not for that in between weight gain but elasticity does not come back within the stretch marks.