Your arm · The design in a sentence · Seconds to a preview
Tattoo Try On
See the tattoo on your own skin before the appointment, so you can walk into the consultation certain about the size and placement instead of carrying doubt into a permanent decision.
One forearm, one sentence, ink
Our own run on this site's engines. Drag the divider and check the boring things first: the same hand position, the same veins, the same shadow under the wrist. Then look at how the lines dim slightly as the arm curves. Every output is AI-generated; yours will follow your photo and your description.
Drag to compare before and after
What a virtual tattoo try on actually does
You give it a photo of the bare skin and a sentence describing the piece. It renders that piece onto that skin: right scale, following the curve of the limb, shaded to your photo's own light.
The searches here come from a very specific moment. Someone has already chosen roughly what they want — a crescent moon, a swallow, their grandmother handwriting — and has stalled on the question no reference image answers: what does it look like on me, there, at that size. The demo on this page is our own run: a bare inner forearm, then the same arm at the same palm-up angle with a fine-line crescent on it.
Judge the design on the only canvas that matters: your own arm, at the placement and scale you are actually considering. Still shaping the design itself? Start in the AI tattoo generator.
Creative engine
How the preview runs
Photograph the bare skin, describe the piece in one sentence, generate.
Your skin, not a mannequin
The point is your arm shape, tone and hair. A rendering on a stock forearm answers nobody question, because the thing you are actually deciding is how the design sits on the curve you have rather than on an idealised cylinder.
Cheaper than regret
Laser removal runs to thousands and hurts more than the tattoo did. An afternoon of previews is the cheapest insurance in the whole process, and it costs less than the deposit on the appointment.
Three steps to ink you can judge
The photo does most of the work. Shoot it like a fitting, not a snapshot.
Photograph the bare skin
Daylight, no flash, the whole area you are considering in frame with a little room around it. Hold the limb the way you would want to look at the finished piece — the angle you shoot is the angle you will judge.
Say the design and the size
Style, subject, placement, and centimetres: "fine-line crescent moon with three small stars, about six centimetres, inner forearm a third up from the wrist". Vague briefs come back enormous, because nothing told the model not to.
Change one thing and rerun
Same photo, thinner lines. Same photo, moved to the wrist. Comparing two previews of your own arm settles arguments that a hundred saved reference pins never will.
Who previews ink on a photo
Three people, three decisions worth getting right the first time.
The first-timer
No ink yet, and the deliberation has run for years. Seeing a modest piece on your own arm is usually what converts "someday" into a booked consultation — or into the realisation that you wanted the idea more than the tattoo.
The placement-arguer
You and the artist disagree about where it goes. Bring three previews of the same design on the same arm instead of a description, and the conversation takes two minutes.
The collector planning a gap
Filling a space between existing pieces means matching weight and style, not just picking a design. Preview the candidate in the gap — and if you are working around ink you no longer want, see what could cover it before you commit to filling around it.
Tattoo try on FAQ
The things people ask before the deposit.
Yes — add the drawing alongside your skin photo and ask for that design placed at your chosen spot. A clean, high-contrast scan on white transfers best. If the artwork is a photo of a sketchbook page with shadows across it, flatten it first or the model will render the shadows as part of the design.
No. It shows a fresh, well-executed rendering. Real ink spreads slightly over the years, fine lines thicken, and colour shifts — an effect no preview models. Ask your artist how the piece will age at that size; it is the single most useful question in the consultation.
Yes, and it is worth doing precisely because most flash is photographed on pale arms. Black and bold linework read very differently across skin tones, and previewing on your own photo is a far more honest answer than a portfolio shot of someone else.
You can, and the wider the area the more the model improvises. Full sleeves are best previewed in sections against a photo that shows the whole arm, and treated as a mood check rather than a plan. Small and mid-size pieces are where this is genuinely accurate.
It is uploaded over HTTPS for the edit and kept in your own history until you delete it. It is never used to advertise. Every output is AI-generated.
The model re-imagined the photo instead of editing it — the known weak spot of add-an-object edits. Rerun the same photo; the runs that hold the base come back within a few tries, and the only one worth keeping is the one where the skin is unmistakably yours.
Kavel pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
Free
What's included
- 15 credits before you sign up
- +40 when you create an account
- +100 a week from daily check-ins
- = 488 a month — 97 images or 12 videos
- No card, no account
- Free engine every day
- Photo editing
Starter
What's included
- 3,150 credits per month
- Up to 630 images or 78 videos
- Every model unlocked
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Cost shown before you generate
Creator
What's included
- 7,200 credits per month
- Up to 1,440 images or 180 videos
- No shared queue
- Every model unlocked
- Clean downloads, no watermark
Studio
What's included
- 13,200 credits per month
- Up to 2,640 images or 330 videos
- Built for 4K runs
- No shared queue
- Every model unlocked
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The rest of the tattoo bench
Design it, stencil it, or cover the one you regret.
See it on your own skin first
One photo, one sentence, and the design stops being a pin on a board — then turn the winner into a stencil for the appointment.