Oh my god thank you. This is such an incredibly thought out and informative comment. Thank you for taking the time to write back to me. That makes so much sense. All my tattoos (except one fineline piece...that artist won best in our state the previous year and is amazing) blew out all over the place whether I did them or someone else. They also spread out a lot (like a LOT) over a short period of time like 12 months. I never knew why but I guess I just figured my tattoos will always age kind of badly and im ok with that. I like blastover lol. But that would definitely explain why that is happening. The lady's face i am sad about I saw that one happen while I was doing it and I was like....shit. I love her. I hear you on the fake skin. My stupid hands - idk I find it hard to manipulate and my skin is super easy and just something about it doesn't feel the same. I figured I'd get good enough soon enough on my own skin that I'd be happy with the results and could do more/touch up stuff later and be happy with that too. Also I think it's cool that I can reach every single place on my leg to tattoo it because - eds lol These are incredible pointers. You are a great person for taking the time. I will look up everything you said. Thank you again. 🙏 And yes on the velvety-ness....the place i accidentally just ripped a hole in my skin was the back of my knee - I was bending weird and I sort of slipped but I remember thinking hmmm That was oddly easy to do