You’re perfectly right. I initially started by making them very crisp but it did feel wrong somehow. I wanted the tattoos to look like original Ta Moko (traditional Maori tattooing) because I love that culture a lot. Originally, the Mokos were scarified (literally, which gives also a slightly bumpy aspect to the skin, kinda like scars) into the skin by using some specific bird’s bones (can’t remember which bird though) and vegetal oil dyes. Over the years, when the traditional Mokos age, the dye tends to sink deeper into the hypodermic areas to create that kind of slight diffusion (kinda the same as bad prison tattoos done with razor blades and other crap).
Modern tattos applied with a coil gun, if done properly, don’t age that way because the chiseling itself is much more superficial and the ink is trapped in the derm above hypoderm and I should learn to shut my mouth.
I could go on forever and I should just shut up because people will think I’m a retard. 
So yes, pinkarman, you’re right, but that was by choice 
I love tattos and I love maori culture, don’t hit me…
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