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@Derrils maybe start a new thread, since i don't think you'll get answers in this one 🙂

Hey guys, thanks for the appreciations from a few pages ago!

Here's another fresh pic of it, done by the artist.
It's one month old now and it healed great, i'll take a new picture when i find the right lighting.

Now the spots that are left on both of my arms is the inner bicep. I'm scared 🙂

How was the area, pain wise?

Hey everyone, here's my most recent tattoo, done last weekend at the Bucharest tattoo convention by the awesome noayanni.
I'm extremely happy with how it turned out and how it ties to my other Ripley tattoo :)

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Thanks, JAC! I'm curious to see pics of how different styles look next to each other, if you have some please share :)

And here's the artist's pic:

My two days old tattoo, i'm really excited for it, love it!
I did it on my "virgin" leg, as i want to dedicate this leg to this style of line work tattoo :)
As a note, on my left leg i have colour neo traditional tattoos, on my left arm realism black&grey and on my right arm colour realism. I like a lot of styles apparently :)

Done by Rares.

Thanks, i think it's my favourite tattoo now :D

Two more pics of Hannibal because he's awesome, i'm excited and i love it :)

Aaand my 2nd tattoo in the Bucharest convention, Hannibal by Goran Micic :)

Hannibal Lecter: If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no?

My new tattoo of the great romanian comedian Dem in one of the best comedies ever (Brigada Diverse), with some additions
Done by fantattoo , on Day 1 of the International Tattoo Convention Bucharest. Also won 1st place on "Best of old school", so that's very cool

Hey, Bucharest tattoo convention is next month and I booked two consecutive days, one with https://www.instagram.com/goranmicic_mg/ and the other with https://www.instagram.com/fantattooflo/ . Can’t wait!  :)

I think Cleen definitely deserves to finally win :)

Not even close to realistic, but it's a well done tattoo in a nice style so maybe you'd end up liking it.

I would even start adding some traditional birds near the flowers :)

Problem with scratchers is hygiene and poor tattoo quality. I by no means support them, for the aforementioned reasons, but without wanting to derail much, isn't this how tattooing began? :) Especially people tattooing themselves.

I've come to learn, if you're a perfectionist then tattooing may not be the hobby for you :D

Where, by who?

double post

8 hours ago, Dan said:

cool tattoo for sure ! and I just watched Alien and Aliens the other night again,I love those movies.

 

Haha thanks. Yeah, i also recently rewatched all four Alien movies + AVP, but definitely the first two are my favourites. The other two are cool in their own rights, completely different but still did some stuff right. And AVP is, well, AVP. Cool alien designs though.

Also, the Ripley in panties would make a great pin-up girl i think :D

Here is Alien's Ripley, all healed up :) Done by Zaed at Radical Ink Tattoo, Bucharest.

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.

4 hours ago, Oiocha said:

politely requesting better angle of that picture because its a cattoo

Hey, sure. Cattoos are awesome :3

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First of all, damn, that huzzink site is a horrible mess, so hard to navigate it.

Secondly, none of them are extremely good, in terms of saturation, lines, details etc. Don't want to sound smug, but i think you could do better.

Your starting point should be the tattoo you want: if you want a bold colour flower, you don't pic artists that mostly do black&grey. Look for artists that do tattoos in the style you like and go through their portofolios.

BUT, if i were to pic one, i'd go to Zhdanov from Huzzink, his colours and lines look good, he can do a bold red flower :)

5 hours ago, Intomyskin said:

Bumping this topic - interesting reading!

I’ve only got one small tattoo from 40-odd years ago, but I’m planning a back piece. Even though I haven’t started the actual tattoo yet, I have already learned things as I’ve made my decision and started planning. 

I’m learning that tattooing is a process and that for me most important part of the process is not in the studio, it is in the brain. 

It took me over 30 years to decide to get my second tattoo. Even though I wanted one, I didn’t think it fit my professional image, and I was afraid of being judged negatively by friends and colleagues. I waffled between “should I or shouldn’t I?” for decades. Over time my desire to get a tattoo grew stronger and stronger. And to complicate matters, my interest evolved from “getting a tattoo” into “getting a very large tattoo.” 

I couldn’t understand why I was unable to make a decision. I spent a lot of time analyzing it and ended up writing down the whole history of my interest in tattooing, as far back as far as I could remember — every incident, what I saw, what my thoughts were along the way, and what was going on in my life, my feelings of conflict— everything I could think of (condensed, but still fairly long version here). Ultimately that led me to the realization that my indecision was not really about whether or not to get a tattoo, but was really an expression of my inability to be the person that I wanted to be in life. 

I came to the realization that I had lived my whole life trying to fit into an image of what I perceived that others and my profession wanted me should be, while completely burying what I wanted to be. I realized that I had unwittingly gradually reprogrammed myself to believe that by “fitting in” I would become the “right kind of person.” 

That may have been one of the most important things I learned about myself in my 60-odd years on the planet. Once I acepted that, it was easy to decide to go ahead with my tattoo project, but more importantly It helped me start to live my life more as I wanted, and move toward a better balance between the professional me and the private me. 

It was only through trying to decide to get a large tattoo that I was able to find that out about myself. I’m not sure if I could have gotten to that realization any other way. I think that for me it took a confrontation with a desire to do something that in my world was really radical, extreme, and beyond the norm (getting a huge tattoo) to jolt me into exploring and learning something deep in me.

Nice post and read! One question, what's your profession? Really curious to know the answer, seems that it played a big role in your tattoo-less self :)

Small preview, full picture when it's healed. I love it!

Ripley: This thing bled acid. Who knows what it's gonna do when it's dead?

1 hour ago, Dan said:

I got this little filler on my rt leg today for the 13th

I thought at first you were showing us the scratch as the filler and was like "that's a nice filler" :D

WIP, can't wait to finish it next week :3

Dallas: Mother's interrupted the course of our journey. She's programmed to do that should certain conditions arise. They have. It seems that she has... intercepted a transmission of unknown origin. She got us up to check it out.