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Island City Tattoos

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Island City has four tattoo artists with different specialties. This documented cover-up series features Ray, our lead cover-up artist. For Ray's newer work, visit @ray_tattoos on Instagram, or request a consultation to be matched with another studio artist.

Real work by Ray

One cover-up. Three honest stages.

See the old tattoo, the work in progress, and the finished result before you decide to request an assessment.

Original faded cross and flame tattoo before Ray's cover-up work
01 · Before
Before

The original tattoo Ray was asked to transform.

Phoenix cover-up tattoo during Ray's stencil and first ink pass
02 · In progress
In progress

The new phoenix design placed and worked over the old ink.

Finished full-color phoenix cover-up tattoo by Ray at Island City Tattoos
03 · Finished
Finished

The completed full-color phoenix cover-up.

Imported from @ray_tattoos

More Cover-Up Work

These posts come from Ray's connected Instagram business account. The Reel shows a real transformation; the photo post shows a real cover-up starting point and links to its original Instagram carousel.

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Old tattoo to floral cover-up

A real @ray_tattoos Reel showing the starting tattoo and the finished floral cover-up.

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Existing upper-arm tattoo photographed before a cover-up consultation

A real cover-up starting point

Open the original @ray_tattoos carousel to follow this cover-up post.

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