[Jean-T]

Because people with light skin get tattoos with black or colored inks, why don’t black people get tattoos with white ink?

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Name : Jean-T, Gender : F, City : Shreveport, State : LA, Country : United States, 

[A-Schurman28279]

The first misconception a lot of people seem to have is that if someone is from African descent, then they have dark, black skin. Africa is a very large continent and has a large variety of people, thus many differences. Actual skin hues can range from rather light to extremely dark. So for a large amount of people, a tattoo done in black ink shows up just as well on their skin as it does on any other ethnicity. Even on basic dark skin, black ink still shows, just not with as much contrast. Traditionally, tattoos were done in either blue or black. Personally, from what I’ve seen, when black won’t show up, people use blue instead. I’m not sure if maybe white ink is less reliable, or if it is just too vivid, but I have very rarely seen it used outside of a ‘picture scene’ type of tattoo.

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Name : A-Schurman28279, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

[Ann L. Lowenstein]

It’s on account a because there ain’t no sech animal. White is a very difficult color to achieve in tattoo ink. To get a truly opaque white, you’d have to use lead oxide, which is right out for obvious reasons. White ink exists, and I’ve seen it on some tattoos, but it is quite transparent, more so even than other light-colored tattoo inks, and is mostly used to lighten the overlying skin tone and achieve something approximating ‘pale’. Therefore, on a black person, particularly a very dark-skinned black person, white ink would at best lighten the overlying skin a few tones, and in many cases wouldn’t show at all.

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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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