There is something almost hypnotic about watching the ink spread across the tips of someone’s fingers, turning each fingertip into a tiny pool of black before the pigment dissolves into delicate dots.
The effect is bold and unusual, and online, people have compared the look to everything from gothic body art to Wanda Maximoff’s blackened fingertips in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
But behind the satisfying transformation is a part of the body that tattoo artists know can be notoriously difficult to work with.