From one photo to 50 years, in about a minute.

01Take a photo of the spot

Open InkAge and take a photo of the place where the tattoo would go — forearm, calf, shoulder blade, anywhere. You can also pick one from your gallery.

The app checks the light and focus straight away and finds the bare skin in the picture, so the design is only ever placed on skin.

02Add any design

Upload a sketch, a screenshot from Pinterest or Instagram, a photo of a design on paper — or a photo of a tattoo on someone else’s body. You can also paste a link or pick from the design library.

If the picture contains more than one design, InkAge frames each one and asks which you want. Only the framed part is used — no person, no clothes, no background.

03Place and size it

Drag, pinch and rotate the design into place. The editor shows the size in centimetres, with quick buttons for 3, 5, 8, 12 and 20 cm.

Choose the body area on the body map. Friction and sun differ a lot between, say, a finger and an upper back, and that changes how the design ages.

04Watch it age

In about a minute you get realistic images on your own photo: fresh, healed after a year, and at 10, 30 and 50 years.

Alongside them comes a longevity score from 0 to 100, with the reasons that raised or lowered it — line weight, detail at this size, colours, placement and sun.

If the design is fragile, “Make it last” redraws it the way an experienced artist might — bolder lines, fewer tiny details — so you can compare both versions side by side.

05Decide together

Share a link where friends vote “get it”, “change it” or “which one?”, make a short video for TikTok, Reels or Shorts, or download a one-page PDF with the design, size, placement and previews to take to your artist.