Deb Yarian

It's such a personal decision.
And while I don't think that it's essential that you consider every year of your life following this one - you may want to question "is this something I can live with?

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It's such a personal decision.
And while I don't think that it's essential that you consider every year of your life following this one - you may want to question "is this something I can live with?

in the first line of your post you said " very cutesy, not my style"
when you say not my style do you mean design or application? Eli's "style" is very masculine in my opinion. But no matter how beautiful or well applied it is if you don't like it, you don't like it. But who's to say you will like what you attempt to cover it with or change it.
So for that reason I am agreement that you should leave it and live with it for a while.
Get right with it.
However if you are one of those people who finds themselves obsessing about what they don't like and you find you absolutely can't live with it, then I would suggest going to Eli first and explaining what it is that you don't like and see what he suggests.

Do you have a car? Are you limited to public transportation.
Specifically, what do you want to get? Do you want to collect a few small tattoos or start a sleeve?
There are soooo many good tattooers in the city, in the boroughs , upstate , NJ etc.
Is that your entire tattoo budget or just to get started? I'm sorry to bombard you with questions but I think your answers will help us direct you better

Do you have a car? Are you limited to public transportation.
Specifically, what do you want to get? Do you want to collect a few small tattoos or start a sleeve?
There are soooo many good tattooers in the city, in the boroughs , upstate , NJ etc.
Is that your entire tattoo budget or just to get started? I'm sorry to bombard you with questions but I think your answers will help us direct you better

Do you have a car? Are you limited to public transportation.
Specifically, what do you want to get? Do you want to collect a few small tattoos or start a sleeve?
There are soooo many good tattooers in the city, in the boroughs , upstate , NJ etc.
Is that your entire tattoo budget or just to get started? I'm sorry to bombard you with questions but I think your answers will help us direct you better

I got married to a tattooist and started tattooing when I was 19. He was heavily tattooed.
I am now married to another tattooist who is even more heavily tattooed.
I had a brief thing with yet another heavily tattooed tattooist.
I think my tastes may be a bit skewed, but I am 50 now, and a heavily tattooed man is my standard for attractiveness.
If I was single I couldn't imagine looking outside of my "community" for companionship.
That's just what I find physically attractive and has nothing to do with whether I would like someone's personality though.

I don't have an issue with passing down a craft or trade, I worked for my folks at that age but nothing too major.. That said, anyone who sits in the chair and knows a 7 year old is about to tattoo them gets what they deserve..
If there's no labor laws being broken and clients are cool with it, who gives a rats ass, lots of generational tradesman and craftsmen start this early..
I guess if you're a tattooer that had to work their ass of to get an apprenticeship it could/would be frustrating, but we're all dealt the hands we are dealt, this kids hand happens to be with a tattooer in the deck.
At the end of the day, it really doesn't affect anyone but the people who let a kid tattoo them. I find it ridiculous that we have let price and explanation of price become a taboo and dare not discuss it but we are all up in arms about someone teaching their child to tattoo..

I have a great film of Paul working in his workshop talking to me and Don Lucas
--- just waiting on Don Lucas to have it produced and released

on breaking in to the business of tattooing. A good laugh.
Contact me at [email protected] for availability$20 shipped in the US
$25 outside of the US

I love tattoos and I love tattooing and I've chosen to vent on a forum of my peers!

No, my point was missed.
It is not literally the business end of my tattoo shop that I'm sick of-- the purchasing of supplies and paying of rent.
I meant " everything that tattooing has become that has nothing to with what I love to do"!

That's awful!! I think you'd feel like you were being assaulted, I know I would.
I'm a tattooer and have always gone out of my way to make people feel comfortable- I know that when the shoe's on the other foot that the personality of the tattooer is as important as his skills.

That's awful!! I think you'd feel like you were being assaulted, I know I would.
I'm a tattooer and have always gone out of my way to make people feel comfortable- I know that when the shoe's on the other foot that the personality of the tattooer is as important as his skills.

That's awful!! I think you'd feel like you were being assaulted, I know I would.
I'm a tattooer and have always gone out of my way to make people feel comfortable- I know that when the shoe's on the other foot that the personality of the tattooer is as important as his skills.

That's awful!! I think you'd feel like you were being assaulted, I know I would.
I'm a tattooer and have always gone out of my way to make people feel comfortable- I know that when the shoe's on the other foot that the personality of the tattooer is as important as his skills.

That's awful!! I think you'd feel like you were being assaulted, I know I would.
I'm a tattooer and have always gone out of my way to make people feel comfortable- I know that when the shoe's on the other foot that the personality of the tattooer is as important as his skills.

That's awful!! I think you'd feel like you were being assaulted, I know I would.
I'm a tattooer and have always gone out of my way to make people feel comfortable- I know that when the shoe's on the other foot that the personality of the tattooer is as important as his skills.