Hogrider

High cost might not equal high quality, but low cost almost always equals low quality. We appreciate your service, but it is totally irrelevant to the discussion. I don't see anything here about the tattoo actually being good art. Do you want good artist or a good technician? I didn't see anyone say that. It's a lot easier to cover up a crappy paint job than a crappy tattoo. This is also starting to smack of braggadocio. There has been plenty of useful advice, you just didn't want to hear it.

If you think that $100 an hour for a good artist is too much, think how much it will cost to cover up a cheap artist's work! Seriously though, this will be on you for the rest of your life; if your primary concern is cost, then you should re-think getting a tattoo.

You paid how much????? I had my baby in a friend's kitchen for $20!

I thought I would watch anything tattoo related, now matter how bad. This show taught me I was wrong. There are no words that could convey how awful it is. You have to watch it to understand. Besides the show being horrible I don't think the coverups are very good either. So for the publicity whores, they get their first bad tattoo on Ink Master, get their first coverup on Bad Ink and then get that abomination covered up on Tattoo Nightmare. Then they can go on Best Ink and start all over!

For every person that has a tattoo there are 100 more that are going to get one.

I guess she's starting to regret getting "tatted up!"

I saw that episode, it was unwatchable. I couldn't make it to the end. It's amazing the crap people think is good. I'm on a musicians forum and there is a thread where people post their tattoos and 99% of them are awful. Wobbly lines, atrocious drawing, patchy color, and all you hear is "sick ink bro."

Ask her what her mother thinks of Matthew 7:1-2 - 1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

If only these people would spend as much time LEARNING about their religion as they do TALKING about their religion.

If this had been my first tattoo then my entire tattoos collection would consist of one line because for some reason he started on my love handle and when he hit that with the tattoo machine I didn't think I'd last 5 minutes. I somehow kept breathing and made it through the session, but that was brutal.

Next Monday I have session 5 on my back. I love how it's turning out but I'm a little less enthusiastic about each sitting. We've been doing 4 - 6 hours each so it can be grueling. I probably have 3 sessions left then I can start on my other sleeve!

To be fair, I did admit it was a small minded thing to think! :-)

Well, another trick is to take off your glasses before you look in the mirror. It's the easiest way to stay looking young!

I like, "Don't ever ask a man if he's from Texas. If he is, you'll know. If he's not, there is no point in insulting him."

Thanks. I usually like to over-think things and do my best to ruin every new experience for myself by worrying about things that will never come to pass. :-)

The best thing you can do is what I did - wait until you are old to get your tattoos and that way you'll probably be dead before they begin to fade! That's my plan and I'm sticking too it. I also don't have to wait to see what they look like when I get old. I can just look in the mirror! :)

I agree. Let me demonstrate my small mindedness - If you are going to look like that, you have better be able to back it up, otherwise it comes across as substituting 'the look' for 'the talent.' As they say in Texas, she's all hat and no cattle.

I'd like to get some opinions on something I've seen on the internet (just in case everything I read on the internet isn't true!). I'm thinking about having the Oni in my back piece done in red, but in researching red reactions I saw an article that talked about the cumulative effect of red ink, meaning that some individuals could be OK with a certain amount of red ink, but if they had too much, it could cause issues. I've had a fair amount of red ink on me for the last year (maybe 5 square inches) and to be honest, the red has healed as fast or faster than other colors - it has less peeling and so far no itching at all (not that I usually have more than very minor itching with any color). Anyway, I did talk with my artist, whom I have a good relationship with, and he said that he felt this wouldn't be a problem, that with newer ink there were far less issues than in the past. I'm just an anal-retentive worry-wart and wanted to throw this question out to see if anyone had an opinion on this or an experience with large amounts of red ink. Thanks!

When I'm healing I have one bar of soap set aside for the tattoo and nothing else gets cleaned with that. If I was rich I'd hire someone else to wash the unmentionable parts when I'm healing a tattoo! :-)

My handlheld mirror gets a lot of work. :-) I'm working on a back piece, trust me, you'll look at it plenty!

And don't forget he runs a highly successful, although unidentified, forum!

Thanks for giving me the motivation to find the ignore feature on this forum!

I can live with that.

How about tattooedless?

Too bad you didn't learn anything about etiquette in all that time. Wrong again. We like Delicious. You ... not so much. P.S. You're friends are wrong, those tattoos are not good.