I got my first tattoo at 133lbs when I was fighting (I know, it’s an oddly specific weight but I had a bunch of officials who refused to believe I made weight…) I started my back piece shortly after that. Anyway, since I got those tattoos I’ve gained close to 50lbs topping out around 180lbs when I was rock climbing (I put on a lot more muscle climbing than I did fighting.) That’s when I got my most recent tattoo. Then I transitioned, and my muscles melted like water… down to within a few pounds of my fighting weight.
So… my ink has gone through gain and loss… how does it look? It looks fine.
I have two shoulder pieces and a back piece (shoulders to hips, it’s big.) All of those are relatively stable places to get a tattoo despite weight gain or loss. There isn’t actually a ton of stretching of the skin involved. When I dropped weight fast (40lbs in 2–3 months… thanks spiro) the place I wound up with the most lose skin was, thankfully, my chest. I’ll also be the first to admit that as much core strength as I had starting transition, I hardly had the definition that I had when I was fighting and things were lose around the middle for a while.
Placement isn’t everything but it’s a huge part of it. Some places on your body will change a lot with weight loss, others won’t. If you’re worried about distortion I’d think a lot more about arms, legs and shoulder blades (which hurt like a bitch BTW) than I would about a rip piece, low / mid back, stomach or chest piece.
Some designs are particularly vulnerable to distortion with weight gain or loss…
Or this…
There’s a lot of precision in these kinds of designs and when the focus of the design is on crisp / straight lines, it takes less gain and loss to distort the image.
If, on the other hand, a design is more organic:
Designs like this will hold up better. While line work is still executed crisply in bio-organic (and many other styles), the design lends itself to change over time without losing much (if any) of it’s legibility.
So, for a person who feels like their body may change significantly, don’t let that stop you from getting inked, but do consider placement and how that may affect things as well as the design itself.
Read other answers by Jae Alexis Lee on Quora:
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