Wolf Tattoo Blue Flower

Skin has no blue in it

Which is precisely why blue reads so cleanly on it.

Reds, oranges, browns and pinks all relate to the warmth already in skin, so they sit into it. Blue relates to nothing there at all, and the result is a colour that appears to sit on top of the body rather than in it.

That separation is the whole effect. It is the reason blue ink has been used for contrast since long before modern tattooing, and why a blue design catches the eye faster than a warm one of the same size.

Anchored with dark line

The design combines the blue with darker linework rather than floating it alone, which is what keeps it defined. Colour without an outline loses its edges on skin; colour with one keeps them.

Small and upright

5.2 x 8.2 cm, which opens up the placements most designs cannot use: an inner wrist, an ankle, a collarbone, behind an ear.

Inner surfaces are usually paler than outer ones, and a cool colour has more to work against there.

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