See how a tattoo design looks on your body using your camera. Upload any image, activate the camera, and drag your design into position. Then estimate cost based on size, style, and placement. Everything runs in your browser — no uploads, no accounts.
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See the design on your body with your camera. The feed never leaves your device — nothing is recorded or uploaded.
Upload a design above to enable the camera preview. The overlay is a static try-on aid — position it against your reflection; it doesn't track your body.
Most tattoo regret isn't about the design — it's about scale and placement. A piece that looks perfect on a phone screen can read completely differently at 8 cm on a wrist or 30 cm across a back. TattooSafe exists to close that gap before any ink is involved: enter your height and a body placement, and the proportional mockup shows your design at true relative scale on a body like yours, flagging when it physically won't fit the area. The camera preview then lets you hold the design against your actual skin — a static, honestly-labeled try-on aid, not AI body tracking.
The estimate combines four real cost drivers: the tattoo's area, the style's needle-time per square inch (fine line work is far faster than photorealism), a placement difficulty multiplier (ribs and hands take longer than a forearm), and the hourly-rate band for your chosen artist tier. It also accounts for session overhead — setup, breaks, and the shop minimum — and splits long work into realistic multi-session plans. It's a planning range, not a quote: your artist prices the actual work. The pricing page breaks down the full methodology, and the FAQ covers what the preview can and can't do. Like every Restless Forge tool, everything runs in your browser — your design and camera feed never leave your device.
The camera view composites your design over a live video feed so you can hold your arm, ribs or shoulder in frame and see the piece at the size you selected. It is a static overlay: the design does not track your body, wrap around a limb, or follow you as you move. That is a deliberate limit rather than a missing feature — body-tracking overlays tend to look convincing while quietly distorting scale, which is the one thing this tool exists to get right. Treat it as holding a printed stencil against your skin, and use the proportional silhouette mockup when you want the measurement rather than the impression.
Nothing from the camera is recorded or transmitted. The video stream is read by JavaScript in your tab and drawn straight to a canvas; there is no upload step and no server that could receive it.
The same design is a different tattoo on a forearm than on a rib cage. Sixteen placements are modelled, each with its own usable area and difficulty multiplier, because two things vary independently: how much room the area physically offers, and how much longer the work takes there. Ribs, hands, feet and necks are slower to tattoo — thinner skin over bone, more breaks, more repositioning — so an identical piece costs more on ribs than on a thigh, even at the same size and the same artist rate.
Size is where most plans go wrong in the other direction. Fine detail has a floor: line weight, needle size and ink spread mean a design with dense linework simply cannot be rendered at 5 cm and stay legible in five years. When the calculator flags a design as too small for its placement, that is what it is warning about.
It is for the stage before you book — working out whether the piece you like fits where you want it, and roughly what a shop will quote, so you walk into the consultation with a realistic starting point. It is not a booking system, a design generator, or a substitute for an artist's judgement. A good artist will adjust your design for the body part it is going on, and that conversation goes better when you already know the size you are asking for is physically reasonable.