Hi Fern,
I have very distinctive tattoos all over my body. I have to erase them from my photo's or cover them up. I would be very easily recognised from them as they are designed by me so nobody else has the same, I am not a go get a fairy tattoo because that's the in thing to have done sort of girl! From one tattoo lover to another - there is nothing more pleasurable than designing your own, from scratch, working with the tattooist over the days before your appointment to get it the right size and shape and colour and then having it put on you - I absolutely love my tats and even though I can not see a lot of them as they are all over my back! I adore them...
In my photo up on here, well, my arms are tattooed top and bottom, you can't see them at all. The package I use is called Coral Paintshop Pro - you can get it in any PC World place or any other good computer place, it's about 80.00 but everybody in the family uses it for all manner of things as it does really fab things with your photo's and drawings and so on, it changes colours, changes the era of the photo, covers tats and blemishes, smooths skin tone, we even did Andy Warhole (spelling?) type pics to give out for Christmas pressies! All sorts of things. I found it worth the outlay as we can all use the package for different reasons plus - the old Grandma's of the world, if like mine, do not get agitated from seeing a beach shot of you covered in ink! Ha!
I would recommend it to you.
Failing that, if you can cover up with a silky throw type thing then do that.
Tats by the way have never put off a client to date. Just thought I would add that. In fact, I get read sometimes, like a book! Ha!
Good luck!
Jo