What to do about color not taking right

Hi. So i did this pumpkin girl on my partner and at first the skirt was light pink but she didn't like it and wanted it purple instead. The purple bled more and didn't take well which made both of us very unhappy with it. Like 3 months later I tried to make the skirt a darker gray instead for her and it bled alot right from the start and 2 days later the great came off with some of the purple in some spots. She is pissed at me and I don't know what to do to fix it or what went wrong. Can someone please help.

Also was going to add a pic of it but not sure how..

Difficult to say without a pic.

How does your colour normally heal? What machine were you using and what settings, plus needles?

whippet said:

Difficult to say without a pic.

How does your colour normally heal? What machine were you using and what settings, plus needles?

Click to expand...

How do I post a pic?

Color even on the same person has been healing good it seems to be the one spot. Wheen i did the initial pink I still was using coil machine. But the purple and this weird gray fiasco I have a digital machine now.

Unless you have a premium member subscription, the only way to post pics is to use another program such as Flickr....and what is a Digital machine? Is it a rotary or pen style machine?

Big Pete said:

Unless you have a premium member subscription, the only way to post pics is to use another program such as Flickr....and what is a Digital machine? Is it a rotary or pen style machine?

Click to expand...

Ahhh... yeah I don't have a premium membership.. and pen style

I struggled moving from coils to a rotary with give, and again to pen style machines without give. I tried all different voltage ranges (speed actually - CPS) from super slow to aggressive, and I’ve settled on running my bishop for colour at about 90cps. That’s 6-6.5V on Bishop but likely different V on your machine.

While you need to get full saturation, you also need to get in and out in one or max 2 passes, making sure you always have a good stretch. Packing doesn’t really mean packing, as in burying the colour, so capillary bleeding is ok, normally stops after 1 or 2 wipes, but look out for excessive bleeding and gooey ink, as it mixes with excess plasma.

I use second skin type products as aftercare and I get very little in terms of ink sacs or liquid inside the skin…and my lighter slower approach has resulted in much quicker healing (4 days average for the first peel) and no scabbing, plus the colours are staying way more vibrant.

I’d also add that if you’re hitting an area with 2 passes, possible if you stay light on the skin, try and cross hatch, each pass moving in oposite diagonal directions.

I love colour work and I’ve worked hard to master it, still trying really, so seeing healed colour work is super important, as it’s can change significantly from the day you put it in to healing and you could go along thinking all is great when in fact it’s not.

This piece peeled in 4-5 days, zero scabbing:

Yeah.. thanks for the advice