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When it comes to getting exceptional body art, aka tattoos that pop and last the test time for Black people, it’s the purest of struggles.
Voices of Color, a division of Insider, dropped an interesting video on Twitter that detailed the dilemma for people of color mainly, Black people, when it comes to getting great tattoos.
As with the changing times and the emergence of Instagram, the white paper has been substituted for white skin instead because, according to tattoo artists (white ones to keep it a buck), the tattoos look better on their “white canvases.”
The clip features legendary New Orleans tattoo artist, and shop owner Jacci Gresham spoke on the matter stating:
“Brown skin’s a bit of a study because I’m telling you we have been brainwashed with this flash on white paper.
Fellow Black tattoo artist Christopher Mensah who works out of the Signature Art Studios located in College Park, Maryland, described in the video how hard it was to get an apprenticeship because all of the white artists said no.
