Can tattoo be cover up this way?

Question

Can colored tattoo be redone again with a color close to natural skin color to create a phantom look?

Hope to hear from someone that actually done it. I am not going to get laser removal (too expensive). I like my tattoo. It's just too colorful. So I want a phantom tattoo that no one will notice except looking closely.

Answer 1

You can have a tattoo artist go over the bright colors with white.  It'll tone things down a little, but I'm not sure how even the color will look.

Answer 2

You might just need to fade the tattoo. Depending on how long you got it, there are a number of things you could do to fade it..  

Answer 3

No it can't. I just talked to a tattoo artist friend of mine about it. He says that you would indeed have to fade your tattoo first. It's too difficult to tattoo lighter colors onto brighter and bolder colors. It will only make your tattoo more colorful than you want it.