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Go home tumblr, you are drunk.

haha! aww you guys! Thank you so much for the kind words :o @suburbanxcore @HaydenRose @Graeme @Diehardonvhs
I will be adding some more to my travelling-collection this year as well, going to SF and Horitomo i April, really stoked on that one. Can't wait to share it with you all on here. And building some more on my back with Val very soon! So more to come! :o
@Scott R for some reason I can't seem to open the picture you have uploaded, would LOVE to se it!
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@scott that girl is amazing! LOVE LOVE LOVE her!

Seriously. Eilin has so many tattoos that are just flat-out amazing, and this new one is no exception.

Goddamn @Eilin I think you have my favorite "collection" of tattoos on here. So good!

Finished my leg by Marius Meyer yesterday, we managed to finish it in only three sessions and I'm very happy with the result!!:o
Cat lady on the front is by Chris Conn

Giving this a shot. This is my alligator tattoo done by Seth Wood who works at temple tattoo in Oakland California. We finished at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn this Monday the third of march

I'll throw mine up as i've posted it in the 'latest' thread. Done by Frank Carter, not a bad 30th bday present to myself.

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As a side note, the inside of the forearm is such an awkward bitch to heal. I'm constantly leaning on the fuckin thing

Ha! Alright then, here's my RH Wells from last year (march-ish I think).

Per Graeme's suggestion, my entry into the Ron Henry Wells Tattoo of the Month contest:

This is all your fault, by the way. The collective you.

@suburbanxcore and @graybones if you're going to play it like that, I'm going to throw this into the ring and we're going to have a three-way Ron Wells showdown.

I'll toss in my new chest piece done by Tim Pausinger at the Pearl Harbor Gift Shop, for this month's contest.

Hyottoko from Civ at the West Texas Tattoo Convention...

Oh what the hell. My leg, done in November by El Monga Sasturain.

Some progress on my Marius Meyer backpiece last week. He did all the green/scales ..

I sure did! Super cool guy!

Hey guys, new member here! Thought I'd christen my first post with my [/url]first tattoo by Guy le tatooer. It is 3 weeks old.
Would love to add more to it a la japanese/traditional sleeve of sorts but going up from the shoulder to the collar bone. Any ideas? Alternatively, I might just have that arm as a trad american sleeve, with just various badge pieces.

A tribute to my brother, who passed seven years ago. He was a transplant from the midwest to L.A. and resented the Hell out of the fact that he was expected to know Spanish.

I'm kinda tempted to look for cheap flights for this and the analog gallery opening, drive the coast inbetween. I'm still finding it strange that things like this are now within striking distance for me, MPLS may be cold but it's a lot closer to Cali than Melbourne!

Taken, mostly cause you actually approached this like a respectful human, not someone looking for other people to do their shortcuts for them. Good luck with it and here's to no regrats.

(Sorry Harry, just had to.)
This just reads "Business cliche, university student idealism cliche, I'm super progressive cliche... Touch base... Shift paradigms... Revolutionize outside the box..." I'm all for fake it till you make it but this kind of generic patter is so transparent.
Also when someone shows you exactly where to read some pertinent information about your questions, including opinions from some extremely well respected tattoo makers, but your response is not to read that information but just ask "what's wrong with it?" then we have nothing for you here.
Good luck.

(Sorry Harry, just had to.)
This just reads "Business cliche, university student idealism cliche, I'm super progressive cliche... Touch base... Shift paradigms... Revolutionize outside the box..." I'm all for fake it till you make it but this kind of generic patter is so transparent.
Also when someone shows you exactly where to read some pertinent information about your questions, including opinions from some extremely well respected tattoo makers, but your response is not to read that information but just ask "what's wrong with it?" then we have nothing for you here.
Good luck.

Taken, mostly cause you actually approached this like a respectful human, not someone looking for other people to do their shortcuts for them. Good luck with it and here's to no regrats.

Again I'm not saying its a bad product, just sharing my experience. Perhaps it was an application issue and it's all my fault, I'll order some more and hopefully I have better luck next time, but I'm not really having any problems healing with conventional methods this time.

I think it's a pretty unique position this forum sits in. The only thing I could liken it to in the rest of my life would be a restaurant forum where most of the people hadn't worked in a kitchen, but may have eaten thousands of dishes from one and know what it looks like in there etc. I feel like this will always lead to a some inane, uninformed comments and questions but also some amazing 'outsider' insight. I've known lots of professionals who were 'blinkered' in some ways by their training. Maybe a little bit more personal comment on other members has been creeping in here lately but overall it's a positive place. I've definitely learned a lot and laughed a lot from being here, good signs in my book.

In regard to the sweating/work issue @Graeme , while I had my ribs covered I was working in a kitchen where air temps hover around 50c (it was in the middle of a heat wave), I experienced heavy sweating and rotational movement and a shitload of grease, with no edge peeling or adhesive degradation. This was only for about 4 hours at a time though. I also could wear a belt, pretty tight over the area, the following day without rubbing. Can't remember which @exume was using but in this case I used tegaderm. /nosalesman ?