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so who here has tattoos?
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10-09-2008, 10:32 PM
Ewokhunter92
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and I appreciate that, my main point, and I am sure you can agree with this, is that too many people walk into a tattoo parlor and simply look at the artist, sees that they have the appropriate amount of tattoos, good or bad, picks some flash off the wall and assumes they know what they are doing since they have a bunch on them and they have some flash they like.
thats how you end up with regrettable trash and the tattoo stigma continues.
I don't know about where you live, but in most places (well all that I know of) there is NO drawing test or art exam to get a license. You just have to prove cleanliness.
so yeah:
PSA, ATTENTION, NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!!
YOU DONT HAVE TO BE AN ARTIST TO GET A TATTOO LICENSE.
LOOK AT THEIR WORK BEFORE YOU GET ANYTHING.
Yeah, I've been in some shops where the "artist" is some fly by night type and his "work" is mostly tracing other people's work.
One thing I cannot stand is those people who come in while you are getting a piece of art and they are picking shit off the walls as if it's an extra value meal.
All mine have a meaning and a reason. I know I'm stuck with it for life, so I want something that is personal, not off a wall.
When my wife got her lower back tat, they couldn't get my design right, so I had to piece it together from stuff off the wall. Using some of this, some of that. It turned out like my design but a little better.
One more thing, back in '92 when I got my Ghost Rider tat, the shop I went to was really the only one around that was trustworthy. It was, however, well known being a rip off with it's prices. It charges by the square inch. Look at my GR tat, see the chain, make a square inch out of that, I paid $25 for that square inch. That tat ran me $350 and change.
I have an arm band with 2 barbed wires, with a shield, skull, and words, was only $150. I went to the previous mentioned shop with this design, they ran it up at $450+. The shop that did this even did some shading work that I didn't mention making it standout.
Even though you shouldn't shop around, you also shouldn't get taken advantage of.
Speaking of the rip off shop, there was an article in Tattoo mag tearing this shop up with well known shops in Cali and Florida calling them an insult to the field.
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