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Can we tattoo over scars and are there risks?

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I have a surgical scar on the back of my neck and I have been thinking for the longest time to get it covered with a tattoo. Is this safe? The scar is pretty smooth although towards the bottoms it kinda rises. I would like to get your thoughts.

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I have a scar on my stomach that was tattooed over. It turned out perfect and you can't tell there was a scar there. I haven't heard of any risks of tattooing over a scar. Go to a tattoo artist and show it and see if they think it's flat enough for the design to not be warped by the scar. If part is smooth and part rises, you could tattoo over the smooth part only and it would still avert attention away from the section that rises. The scar on my stomach is about an inch wide and goes from my bellybutton all the way down. It is a pretty major scar, I was cut open for exploratory surgery. No problems at all, and like I said the tattoo completely hides the scar. Nobody even knows now that I have a scar there. Before people asked me all the time when I had my stomach exposed where I got the scar from. Now people just comment on how much they like my tattoo:)
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i just got a nice big tattoo over some nasty scars not a problem yet wanted to cover them up did the trick
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Yes they can tattoo over a scar. I know some women that have a tattoo over there c-section scar. Its perfectly safe as long as you go to a clean tattoo shop.
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by searching for "tattoo over scars" I found over 1000 results

http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_r...

generally, yes

but some artists won't do it

honestly though....and I'm not trying to be mean, the search bar works very well
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Yes there was a guy on one of the tattoing shows and he had a whole arm scared from burn damage.
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when i got a tattoo over my scar it rejected the ink where the scar was. it was tender when the tattooed on the scar too. i had surgey when i was like 11, so i couldn't believe that the scar rejected the ink. hope that helps
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