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Related: About this forumIs this racist of me to say the tattoos on Blacks aren't as colorful as on white people???
Watching the NBA Milwaukee vs Boston…..lotsa players have tattoos and you can see them…but on the white guys they’re more colorful. Is that racist of me to even mention it??


OAITW r.2.0
(29,389 posts)Would "tattoo" colors be more vibrant with people with white skin vs. black skin? If you don't know, why would this be worthy of an OP?
a kennedy
(32,801 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(29,389 posts)I don't know why, though. I've seen enough of your posts to think this is an off-night for you.
a kennedy
(32,801 posts)I guess white skin shows colors more then Black skin……
OAITW r.2.0
(29,389 posts)
Amanita Pantherina
(57 posts)Yeah. It is.
I'm sorry to tell you, but since you asked.
a kennedy
(32,801 posts)
XanaDUer2
(15,319 posts)Once told me he didn't understand why some black ppl got tattoos bc the darker the skin, the harder to see them.
Made me think hmmmmm.... he's got a point.
jmowreader
(51,871 posts)All skin has undertones, and the undertones WILL shift the appearance of the finished work. For instance, if you have yellow undertones and you tattoo in red, the finished ink will look orangish. Tattoo with yellow ink over blue undertones and it'll go greenish.
Dark skin has really strong undertones so it'll heavily shift the appearance of the piece. There aren't all that many tattoo artists who understand color well enough to compensate for that...however, if you use black ink it'll still look black when the tattoo heals.
IbogaProject
(4,067 posts)It is very popular with the current young cohort. I'm not a fan but I'm not going to judge it.
brush
(58,864 posts)Just a common observation. Here's another one, most of the NBA and NFL players are Black. Is that racist to say?
KatK
(231 posts)
Some are calling him racist, saying he is trying to become 'black'.
Fucking ludicrous charge, IMHO, speaking as as mixed race black female.
Machine Gun Kelly, btw.
Can never assume many here know 'current' (the bloke is 34 now, so hardly some youngster) musical culture.
Marcuse
(8,148 posts)
It makes you captain obvious because brown background doesn’t show colors as vibrant🤭