30 successful examples of covering up old tattoos (31 photos)
No matter how much you like the tattoo, there is no guarantee that in 10 years you will not want to remove it or cover it up. Times change, ink fades, and our thinking and tastes transform too. The people in this collection decided to cover up their old tattoos - and the results were very cool! Let's take a look at a few such successful examples. 
1. High-quality overlap 
2. The mistakes of youth were closed 
3. Overlapping in progress 
4. Updated the “space” sleeve 
5. This is definitely better 
6. “The process of covering up a tattoo I didn’t like.” 
7. Before and after 
8. Beauty! 
9. “This was only the first overlap session.” 
10. “From an impulsive tattoo I got when I was 18 that I didn’t really like, we made one that I’m proud of!” 
11. Another beautiful ceiling 
12. "Finally covered the strange clouds with beautiful peonies" 
13. Here's a remake 
14. Elephant upgrade 
15. “I’m happy with my new tattoo.” 
16. Large-scale work 
17. "My chaos wheel was turned into cosmic beauty" 
18. “I regretted getting this tattoo for 5 years. I got it covered up.” 
19. “And I started covering it back in 2018. It’s finished now.” 
20. Cute "after" 
21. Anubis needed an update 
22. Made flowers from a hieroglyph 
23. Bye, compass 
24. “They updated my bird in two sessions. It took 10 hours.” 
25. A completely different matter 
26. The snake was given a second life 
27. Cool result 
28. Another big job 
29. The skull was covered with a wolf 
30. “Finally updated my tattoo after 11 years!” 


















