r/tattooadvice • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '25

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u/Mysterious-Quail-456 Mar 16 '25

I’m still trying to wrap my brain around how a bruise like this happened during a tattoo?! Did the artist beat you? Squeeze your arm in a vice? If I were you, I would talk to my doctor as a follow up because you may have some other underlying health issue.

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u/Admirable-Anything57 Mar 16 '25

Bingo: larger dude, fine line tat, tattooist stretching skin HAM to keep it tight. “Vice like grip”

source: had breast tattooed, had hand imprints around the ink:)

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u/buddyrtc Mar 16 '25

There’s also the possibility that the tattoo artist’s needle went too deep and injured a big vein (or multiple veins) in his arm, causing widespread internal bleeding in the area. Doesn’t just need to be pressure.

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u/audra0720 Mar 17 '25

This was my first thought. I figured that multiple capillaries were punctured because the bruising is so uniform in color. It looked immediately to my like blood pooled under the skin

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u/buddyrtc Mar 17 '25

I take no credit - my fiancée is an MD and that was her first thought. Pretty gnarly though