Covering scars with a tattoo.
Time and Place: Roughly current time, northeast U.S. (probably Maine) Can make it somewhere else if it makes a big difference.
Googled: tattoos to cover scars, checked the Body Modification e-zine FAQ on tattooing and tried searching on the same term and on "scars" there.
I want to write a story about a character getting a tattoo to cover up scars. The scars are on her back and remind her of a traumatic event in her life. They are narrow and the cuts were made by an attacker with a knife who carved a number into her back. (This is Eileen Galvin from Silent Hill 4, for the record.)
Googling "tattoos to cover scars" actually got me a bunch of results, but the problem I'm having is that the results range from "No reputable tattoo artist will tattoo over a scar," to "Here are some lovely pictures of tattoos done to cover scars."
Mostly I just want to know if a reputable person will in fact do it and/or if finding someone to tattoo over a scar in the U.S. would be difficult. Other information on tattoos doesn't seem difficult to find but I'm not sure how to approach that subject in the fic.
I tried the Body Mod Wiki at bme.com, but none of my search terms seemed to get me anywhere, and "scars" got me mostly scarification and scars from piercings gone wrong.
Googled: tattoos to cover scars, checked the Body Modification e-zine FAQ on tattooing and tried searching on the same term and on "scars" there.
I want to write a story about a character getting a tattoo to cover up scars. The scars are on her back and remind her of a traumatic event in her life. They are narrow and the cuts were made by an attacker with a knife who carved a number into her back. (This is Eileen Galvin from Silent Hill 4, for the record.)
Googling "tattoos to cover scars" actually got me a bunch of results, but the problem I'm having is that the results range from "No reputable tattoo artist will tattoo over a scar," to "Here are some lovely pictures of tattoos done to cover scars."
Mostly I just want to know if a reputable person will in fact do it and/or if finding someone to tattoo over a scar in the U.S. would be difficult. Other information on tattoos doesn't seem difficult to find but I'm not sure how to approach that subject in the fic.
I tried the Body Mod Wiki at bme.com, but none of my search terms seemed to get me anywhere, and "scars" got me mostly scarification and scars from piercings gone wrong.