Can tattoos be covered up when acting?

Zachadoodle

Zachadoodle

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I'm thinking about getting a tattoo to remember the love my grandmother gave me for most of my life when my parents weren't there. The issue is, is it possible for when I have to be a certain role in a movie or TV show, that I can get the tattoos covered up appropriately? The tattoo will be on my shoulder. It'll be of a hummingbird with a purple lily with a commemoration below and an olive branch below it. I'm also thinking of getting a cross on my right shoulder, for religious reasons.

So can these tattoos be covered up?
 
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You have a better chance of getting full sleeves on both arms and legs than ever being in a position where you're in a movie or TV show and you're important enough where it would really matter if you had a tattoo or not (not just specifically you but millions of people).

But, of course you can cover it up with makeup, bandages, clothes and digitally if it ever really had to be done (and that tech will probably keep getting better).
 
I've worked a few indies where HMU was able to hide tattoos (a couple times a lot of tattoos). There's a makeup that's popular... I think it *might* be this:
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Good question for reddit, I bet.

Anyway, I think it was basically no big deal to hide. Good luck. And nice idea for a memorial. ❤️
 
I'm running a theatre show and tattoos look dreadful. Nice costumes ruined by black marks appearing where you don't want them. Worse for dancers in open auditions. The cull rate is always high, but physical features really matter. With so many going for a part, you don't want any excuse to say "thanks for coming". I've seen over the years, age, height, ginger hair, wrinkles etc used to say no.

If you have a tattoo that needs makeup time to cover up, plus extra wardrobe time to get the gunge of costumes, they'll hire somebody else. It will be fine for some roles, but a contract killer for others. Why would they spend money de-tattoing you. For many jobs it doesn't matter, but visual arts is very cutting. If people get turned down because their nose is too big, or their ear lobes dangly, having any body art is VERY risky.

You can never predict what the casting directors are looking for. A noticeable feature can be the kiss of death.
 
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