Looking at the tattoos of Mexican artist Yatzil Elizalde, your first reflex is to squint, thinking there is something wrong with your eyes, but it’s just the artist’s unique ‘blurry effect’ style playing tricks on you.
Coming up with a unique tattooing style usually requires a lot of experience and confidence, so it was really surprising for us to learn that the creator of these stunning double vision tattoos was only 25-years-old. Even more surprising was the fact that she had started out as a visual artist, before taking up tattooing six years ago and opening her own studio in Hermosillo, Mexico’s Sonora state.
From Disney characters and replicas of famous artworks, to original designs, there is virtually no tattoo that Yatzil Elizalde cannot adapt her now famous blurry effect to. She has done it so many times that she no longer gets dizzy while freehand-drawing overlapping versions of the designs to achieve the double vision look.
“I love imagining that people can get the feeling that their sight is getting blurry when they look at my tattoos,” Elizalde told Insider Magazine. “I feel good that people can experience this through my art.”
Elizalde creates her dizzying tattoos by inking the same overlapping design twice, even three times, which results in an optical illusion that makes viewers squint their eyes the first time they see them.
Yatzil Elizalde runs her own tattoo studio, White Light, in Hermosillo, but also posts her trippy creations on social media websites like Instagram and Facebook.
