Patrick Bateman

The answers depend on the artist. If you want to share the artist's name someone here might be able to share their personal experience with the artist.

posted this in the backpiece thread but i'm gonna give it a shot in here as well. finished yesterday thanks to Max Kuhn.

Hello all,
I found you while looking for information about Saniderm - and will contribute to that thread. To introduce myself : I got my first tattoo in 1976 in Fort Bragg, NC. I wanted a small dragon head and got it off a picture on the wall. It was very different back then for women. Even though my then husband was with me, the tattooist called his wife to come and sit in - really funny. The artist tried so hard to get me to choose a rose or butterfly instead, he couldn't really understand that I wanted a dragon! One thing I must say about him (whoever he was) - I wanted my dragon to be blue and when my husband asked for the same thing, the artist refused - he would do a dragon, but not in the colors I chose. It is a terrible tattoo and I wouldn't give it up for anything - it is a reminder of a time in my life when I thought nothing of merit would ever happen to me, I got the tattoo to show my future grandkids (I had a 2 year old daughter at the time) that I could be different from all the other grandmoms - hah, little did I know how different I would eventually be.
I travel full time in a tiny RV - looks like a squished truck camper - with my 2 Cardigan Welsh Corgi dogs. As soon as I retired, I got another tattoo - a small phoenix on my left inner arm. Just this year I got an overthought one down my right inner arm and around my wrist. My artist did exactly what I asked her to and used the design I had created, so I cannot fault her. As soon as I saw it completed I knew something was wrong with it - much too cartoonish for my liking. In one of the NM campgrounds I met a woman with lots of feather tattoos and really liked the shading on them. So, I just got my overthought one redone in a "painterly" fashion - not watercolor as I wanted bright colors. I'll try to get pictures up of it when I have better internet service.
Anyway, I am most impressed with this site and am slowly viewing as many threads as possible.
Lyn

Yes, I've been traveling for 10 years and have crossed the entire country (from east to west coast) 4 times. Been on the road 7-8 months per year. I finally sold my house in May of this year so can now call myself a full-timer! I would like to investigate Canada more next summer.

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Just booked my first cruise.
Going the Saturday before Christmas and coming back the Saturday after.
I've been doing a lot of traveling the last few years but I've never been on a cruise.
Excited as hell.

Almost done. Just shading on the bottom and some work left on the sides. I've been at it for about 10 months, about 3 or so hours a month. It has been well worth the time, can't wait to be finished. By Tim McCarthy at Tsunami Tattoo.

Yes, but kinda going off the mantra off this site make sure you have to tools to be happy with it for a long time. That for me is losing 20 before my front

A few weeks back I managed to get an appointment with Steve Wimmer in November. I think he was booked until February but a cancellation came through and I took it.
Going to get Wolverine #1 on my outer left thigh.
I think it will come out great, especially since my skin is paper white.

A few weeks back I managed to get an appointment with Steve Wimmer in November. I think he was booked until February but a cancellation came through and I took it.
Going to get Wolverine #1 on my outer left thigh.
I think it will come out great, especially since my skin is paper white.

I'm so happy to have found this blog, I don't have many friends with tattoos so I'm kind of left to my own devices when it comes to after care. But that's what the internet and talking to the artist is for right? Anyway, like I said I'm a 19yr old girl from ca. slowly turning my body into a canvas I can be proud of. IVE only ever wanted to be some what heavily tattooed, although my family has reservations about me doing it. What else is there.... Oh I currently work retail, I enjoy it very much. But it's not what I want to do with my life. I've done a little "modeling" for my friend who wants to be a photographer, but nothing professional. That's honestly all I can think of at this moment, so I'll let it be. Can't wait to talk to you guys! So thankful I found this blog

Steve does real nice solid work.but we also have good realistic tattooers in Jersey..
Instagram does beautiful realistic work.
Instagram is up in N.Jersey.
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It's on my right thigh above my knee.
PMA for Positive Mental Attitude. Took a lot PMA to finish college last year with 2 college degrees and on my crazy diet/work outs.

Well not really from Asbury Park, I just felt it fits with the postcard. haha
My name is John and I'm from Hudson County, New Jersey.
A very good friend of mine suggested checking this site out so I've lurked it for a few months and decided to join.
At 31 years old, I just got my first tattoo this past May. Though I've been into art for years, tattoos have been something I've been into since my teens. I was always hesitant because I didn't want to live with that "regretful" tattoo mixed with not being able to afford a good artist.
Finally as i began my diet at 360 pounds, I kept saying to myself I'm going to get a tattoo when I lost 25 pounds. I got past 25 pounds then bumped it up to 50 pounds. Past that mark then 100 pounds. Past that and finally said when i lost 125 pounds I'm going to get a tattoo.
FINALLY I got up to 128 pounds lost (currently weighing in at 232 pounds). I decided that's it I'm doing it. I began booking appointments with specific artists that I have either followed or researched. I have appointments this November 2014 and October of 2015.
BUT Being a fan of Luke Wessman's artwork and life story since about July of 2013. I needed him to do my first tattoo.
Went to Wooster Street Social Club and he took me as a walk-in. Having his talent, great back story and awesome conversation only fueled the fire of getting more tattoos that mark specific parts of my life.

Well not really from Asbury Park, I just felt it fits with the postcard. haha
My name is John and I'm from Hudson County, New Jersey.
A very good friend of mine suggested checking this site out so I've lurked it for a few months and decided to join.
At 31 years old, I just got my first tattoo this past May. Though I've been into art for years, tattoos have been something I've been into since my teens. I was always hesitant because I didn't want to live with that "regretful" tattoo mixed with not being able to afford a good artist.
Finally as i began my diet at 360 pounds, I kept saying to myself I'm going to get a tattoo when I lost 25 pounds. I got past 25 pounds then bumped it up to 50 pounds. Past that mark then 100 pounds. Past that and finally said when i lost 125 pounds I'm going to get a tattoo.
FINALLY I got up to 128 pounds lost (currently weighing in at 232 pounds). I decided that's it I'm doing it. I began booking appointments with specific artists that I have either followed or researched. I have appointments this November 2014 and October of 2015.
BUT Being a fan of Luke Wessman's artwork and life story since about July of 2013. I needed him to do my first tattoo.
Went to Wooster Street Social Club and he took me as a walk-in. Having his talent, great back story and awesome conversation only fueled the fire of getting more tattoos that mark specific parts of my life.

Welcome, and congrats on your weight loss and the role getting a tattoo played in it! So what did you get?

A few weeks back I managed to get an appointment with Steve Wimmer in November. I think he was booked until February but a cancellation came through and I took it.
Going to get Wolverine #1 on my outer left thigh.
I think it will come out great, especially since my skin is paper white.

Well not really from Asbury Park, I just felt it fits with the postcard. haha
My name is John and I'm from Hudson County, New Jersey.
A very good friend of mine suggested checking this site out so I've lurked it for a few months and decided to join.
At 31 years old, I just got my first tattoo this past May. Though I've been into art for years, tattoos have been something I've been into since my teens. I was always hesitant because I didn't want to live with that "regretful" tattoo mixed with not being able to afford a good artist.
Finally as i began my diet at 360 pounds, I kept saying to myself I'm going to get a tattoo when I lost 25 pounds. I got past 25 pounds then bumped it up to 50 pounds. Past that mark then 100 pounds. Past that and finally said when i lost 125 pounds I'm going to get a tattoo.
FINALLY I got up to 128 pounds lost (currently weighing in at 232 pounds). I decided that's it I'm doing it. I began booking appointments with specific artists that I have either followed or researched. I have appointments this November 2014 and October of 2015.
BUT Being a fan of Luke Wessman's artwork and life story since about July of 2013. I needed him to do my first tattoo.
Went to Wooster Street Social Club and he took me as a walk-in. Having his talent, great back story and awesome conversation only fueled the fire of getting more tattoos that mark specific parts of my life.