Turquoise Cherry

Adam Sage is the man.

Geometric black & grey isn't really my thing but Tomas Tomas turns out some pretty amazing work. Apologies if he's already had a mention.

Mr. Pink hates this thread right now.

The thing I hate is when I am in a public place with my son and someone asks me "when he is going to get his first tattoo?, ha ha!!!!! I want to be like wow you should try out for that redneck comedy tour you mouth breathing piece of shit, but i digress.

@Johnny
I think you are fine.
But at this point, I think people are going to just start repeating each other and/or themselves.
I personally don't think you are being "cheap", at least here in the States, especially Florida, people are getting really blasted by the economy, I understand.
The point is that, obviously, everyone here, to some extent, thinks a tattoo is an investment in yourself, and hence are willing to save, wait, travel, and spend accordingly.

Waiting for the train. Appointment with Valerie Vargas in about two and a half hours.

I was very surprised in my situation. He said, 'you are paying a lot of money for this tattoo already' but to me, it felt like walking out without saying 'thank you.' He thanked me and seemed to appreciate the offer, but was very firm about it. I have since heard from other people he does not accept tips.
Another tattooist in Brighton definitely did not charge me what his work was worth, so I added a large tip on top. He protested, but with the help of the receptionist, we convinced him to take it.
From now on I will bring both cupcakes and cash, just to be safe.

I was very surprised in my situation. He said, 'you are paying a lot of money for this tattoo already' but to me, it felt like walking out without saying 'thank you.' He thanked me and seemed to appreciate the offer, but was very firm about it. I have since heard from other people he does not accept tips.
Another tattooist in Brighton definitely did not charge me what his work was worth, so I added a large tip on top. He protested, but with the help of the receptionist, we convinced him to take it.
From now on I will bring both cupcakes and cash, just to be safe.

Here's one of my favorites. This is on another friend of one of my customers, who wanted to know how much it would be to cover this tattoo. I told him that the tattoo was awesome and it didn't need covering...

What about the guy who came in, fresh outta prison w/ a big head & attitude..wanted "Crazy Ass" down his left arm and "White Boy" down his right arm. Was a total jerk during the tattoo & tried to haggle on the price..the best part was when he walked out of Goldfields in his t-shirt and all you could see peering out was "Ass Boy"

I was very surprised in my situation. He said, 'you are paying a lot of money for this tattoo already' but to me, it felt like walking out without saying 'thank you.' He thanked me and seemed to appreciate the offer, but was very firm about it. I have since heard from other people he does not accept tips.
Another tattooist in Brighton definitely did not charge me what his work was worth, so I added a large tip on top. He protested, but with the help of the receptionist, we convinced him to take it.
From now on I will bring both cupcakes and cash, just to be safe.

My tip was refused very vehemently at one of the London tattoo studios recently. I felt awful for some reason, so when I went back for the next session I brought a gift instead.

I show up an hour early, stand in the window and shake with excitement while chain smoking and yelling "COME ON FUCKER. COME ON!!!"

The other day I was looking at Shiges' site and saw this photo

I then realised that this client must have the same concerns and considerations for his artist as @hogg does ;)
Shige to client "Lets get a photo of your chest piece and sleeves" Client to Shige "Just let me take off my pants"... lol.
(yes I am aware that on shiges' site you can see that the same client was getting photos of his backpiece at the same time... but for the purposes of hilarity we won't acknowledge that)

Started on Tuesday, by Rachi at Black Throne.
I have another pretty lady going on the top of my arm. Was supposed to have all the lines done in that sitting, but chronic illness strikes again.
Still, bloody stoked.
Also, the elbow is no joke :S still extremely swollen too!
(sorry for the image overload)

Hi got the most amazing pirate girl on Friday by @Stewart Robson im rubbish at pictures but shes on his blog. Frith street is an amazing shop it has great artists and a wonderful atmosphere, very friendly as well.

Thank you. I saw a similar design and really liked it. Showed it to my artist and told him I wanted to include a pocket watch and female rabbit as well. It was his idea to put her into the watch like an old black and white photo. Clever idea really, I would not have thought of it.

here's my newest one from yesterday

done by Zane Donnellan

lol petri I made a funny here it is I need to get one of his pictures because I cant get the colors to show

So far I've only travelled to London twice to get tattooed (the most recent trip was back and forth in less than 36 hours), but now my trip to SF is less than three months away and I'm so fucking stoked it's ridiculous. It will be expensive as hell, and all my money besides rent, bills and food has gone towards this trip, but I can't think of anything I'd like to do more. Exploring a new city in a foreign country, getting tattooed by incredible artists, meeting new people, thinking about your collegues working their asses of back home while drinking an ice cold beer in the sun... I for one can't think of a better way to spend my vacation, and I will most likely try to do something similar next year.

bus, then coach, then underground - 3 hours or so (one way). to Frith Street.
it's amazing how lazy some people are when it comes to doing basic travel to get the best tattoo.. obviously some people *aren't* lazy like that.. the few people you ever see with good tattoos, normally.

Ron Henry Wells (hedid a hand of mysteries on me)...i think you guys know if him but people esp in New England really need to learn whats up.
Ollie Street by Street, Blog by Blog. he doesn't post a lot of his tattoos since he is picky and is lazy about his blog. But the guy is simple, clean and tattoos damn well. I enjoy his style. He did a woman face on me that's IMO close to perfect.

Ron Wells did this! Love it.
2 weeks ago got work from chad koeplinger and jondix, no pictures online but once healed I will grab some.
Also working on chest and arm with thomas hooper...this was the last blog update.
Eisen Flower. « Hoopers Electric – Meditations in Atrament
2011 was busy....I see 2012 being more of the same for my wife and I.

Haha, did you guys look in the mirror and cry while the tattooer said, "do you love it?"?
I'm kidding, I think it's really lovely. When I get married, my husband is going to get a huge backpiece of my face, with the words "Mel Noir is a god to you cretins"... okay, no one would really agree to that.

Thanks Mel. My wife got a black and grey rose with my name on it a couple of months later, by the same artist.
How Miami Ink is that.