Our customers prefer to see models without tattoos. We often reject models when they apply, for having tattoos.
Sometimes, we do accept models with tattoos, knowing that we can use some techniques to hide those tattoos on shoots (so long as they do not compromise the quality of the shoot). We might need the model’s help to bring suitable clothing. A simple example:
A model has a tattoo on her foot. Rather than not make shoots of this model, we make shoots with the model wearing socks for the whole shoot.
Sometimes, it’s more complicated to cover tattoos. Some techniques we’ve used include:
- Wearing a colourful bandanna around a wrist tattoo
- Wearing a short skirt pulled up to your waist, to cover a tummy tattoo
- Wearing an opened button-up shirt to hide a tattoo sleeve
- Having the model’s hair down to cover an upper-back tattoo
- Wearing a bolero jacket to hide a shoulder tattoo
If you have tattoos, please consider how they can be hidden in a shoot, and bring colourful clothing to suit (consider that you’ll need to get mostly-naked, so if using the bolero jacket approach, how could the shoot proceed with a minimum of faffing to get the bra and undershirt off?).
Occasionally, we’ll allow a model’s tattoo to be shown in a shoot, but this is very rare and is a final decision made by the Creative Director.
